Order and structure in syntax I
Publisher: Language Science Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9783961100262; 9783961100279
Subjects: Linguistics
Description: This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language.
Notes: Knowledge Unlatched 103531 Language Science Press 2018-2020

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