The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
ISBN13: 9780195132236ISBN10: 0195132238
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272 pages
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Description
This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.Features
- The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax.
- The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages.
About the Author(s)
Andrew Carnie is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona.
Eithne Guilfoyle is Head of Humanities at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology.
