Overview

The articles of the present volume consist of generative analyses dealing with several current topics of discussion and debate in syntactic theory, such as clitics, word order, scrambling, directionality, movement. The data in the volume are drawn from a number of typologically diverse languages (e.g. Arabic, Berber, Dutch, Gaelic, Greek, Malagasy).

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Author:   Artemis Alexiadou (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin) ,  Tracy Alan Hall (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   13
Weight:   0.610kg
ISBN:  

9789027227348

ISBN 10:   9027227349
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   13 February 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction (by Alexiadou, Artemis); 2. Typological Implications of a directionality constraint on projections (by Haider, Hubert); 3. Universal Grammar and the Typology of Ergative Languages (by Mahajan, Anoop K.); 4. Some Properties of Ellipsis in Coordination (by Wilder, Chris); 5. Deriving the Parametrisation of the Mapping Hypothesis (by Adger, David); 6. Syntactic Dependencies and their properties: weak islands (by Manzini, Maria Rita); 7. On Extraction, argument binding and voice morphology in Malagasy (by Law, Paul); 8. Universals and Minimalist Features (by Gelderen, Elly van); 9. Genitive Subjects and the VSO Order (by Ouhalla, Jamal); 10. Some Properties of Clitics (with special reference to Modern Greek) (by Drachman, Gaberell)

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