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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.

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Author:   Andrew Carnie (Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona) ,  Eithne Guilfoyle (Head of Humanities, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design, and Technology; and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Calgary) ,  and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Calgary, Canada)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.387kg
ISBN:  

9780195132236

ISBN 10:   0195132238
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 April 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Andrew Carnie and Eithne Guilfoyle: Introduction Chapter 2: Randall Hendrick: Celtic Initials Chapter 3: Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, and Elizabeth Pyatt: VSO Order as Raising Out of IP? Some Evidence from Old Irish Chapter 4: Eithne Guilfoyle: Tense and N-features in Irish Chapter 5: Edit Doron: VSO and Left-conjunct Agreement: Biblical Hebrew vs. Modern Hebrew Chapter 6: Diane Massam: VSO and VOS: Aspects of Niuean Word Order Chapter 7: Andrea Rackowski and Lisa Travis: V-initial Languages: X or XP Movement and Adverbial Placement Chapter 8: Felicia Lee: VP Remnant Movement and VSO in Quiavini Zapotec Chapter 9: Ray Freeze and Carol Georgopoulos: Locus Operandi Chapter 10: Judith Aissen: Prosodic Conditions on Anaphora and Cliticsin Jakaltek Chapter 11: Seth Minkoff: Animacy Hierarchies and Sentence Processing Chapter 12: Eloise Jelinek: Predicate Raising in Lummi, Straits Salish References Index

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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.

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