Mirrors and Microparameters - Phrase Structure Beyond Free Word Order

Klappentext Looks at the nature of free word order and phrase structure! with particular reference to a single endangered language Kiowa. Zusammenfassung Drawing on data from Kiowa! a member of the largely undescribed Kiowa-Tanoan language family! this book reveals that classically nonconfigurational languages can nonetheless exhibit configurational effects. This approach challenges widespread assumptions of linguistic theory and throws light on the syntactic structures and ordering principles of Universal Grammar. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Nonconfigurationality and polysynthesis; 3. The clausal spin; 4. Making mirrors; 5. Interface properties of clausal domains; 6. Anti-quantification and the syntax-semantics interface; 7. Conclusion.

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• Authors: David Adger, David Harbour Adger, Adger David, Daniel Harbour, Laurel J. Watkins, Watkins Laurel J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2011
• EAN: 9781107403598
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40359-8
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology