The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads
Title | The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads PDF eBook |
Author | Hilda J Koopman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 2003-09-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134718233 |
Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as: * interpretation and distribution of pronouns * ECP effects * specifiers and phrase structure * the role and functioning of head movement * the architecture of grammar Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch.
The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads
Title | The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads PDF eBook |
Author | Hilda J Koopman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 398 |
Release | 2003-09-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134718241 |
Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as: * interpretation and distribution of pronouns * ECP effects * specifiers and phrase structure * the role and functioning of head movement * the architecture of grammar Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch.
The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads
Title | The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads PDF eBook |
Author | Hilda J. Judith Koopman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 389 |
Release | 2000 |
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ISBN |
Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English
Title | Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Radford |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 580 |
Release | 1997-07-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521477079 |
Andrew Radford's textbook is written for students with little or no background in syntax, and introduces them to key concepts of Chomsky's minimalist programme (e.g. merger and movement, checking, economy and greed, split VPs, agreement projections), as well as providing detailed analysis of the syntax of a range of different construction types (e.g. interrogatives, negatives, passives, unaccusatives, complement clauses). Illustrative material is drawn from varieties of English (Standard English, Belfast English, Shakespearean English, Jamaican Creole and Child English). There is a substantial glossary and an extensive integral workbook section at the end of each chapter with helpful hints and model answers, which aim to get students to analyse phrases and sentences for themselves within a minimalist framework.
The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
Title | The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Carnie Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of Arizona |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2000-05-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0195344014 |
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.
Towards an Elegant Syntax
Title | Towards an Elegant Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Brody |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 318 |
Release | 2005-10-24 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134423543 |
This collection of essays, written between 1980 and 2001, places the search for theoretical elegance at centre stage. and makes available important and some less easily accessible publications with new introductory material.
The Syntax of Negation
Title | The Syntax of Negation PDF eBook |
Author | Liliane Haegeman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 1995-03-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0521464927 |
Demonstrates sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework, showing parallelism between negative and interrogative sentences.