Edges in Syntax - Scrambling and Cyclic Linearization

Informationen zum Autor Heejeong Ko is an associate professor at Seoul National University, and has previously held positions at Stony Brook University and at MIT. Her main areas of research include the syntax-phonology interface, the syntax-semantics interface, and the acquisition of syntax/semantics. Her work has appeared in several international journals, including Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Acquisition, and Studies in Generative Grammar. Klappentext This book examines how word order variations in language can be regulated by various factors in cyclic syntax. It offers a valuable contribution to the current debate concerning the effect of cyclic Spell-out on the (re-)ordering of elements in scrambling, principally using data from Korean and Japanese. Zusammenfassung This book examines how word order variations in language can be regulated by various factors in cyclic syntax. It offers a valuable contribution to the current debate concerning the effect of cyclic Spell-out on the (re-)ordering of elements in scrambling, principally using data from Korean and Japanese. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Edges in cyclic syntax 2: Edges of primary predication 3: Syntactic edges and two types of floating quantification 4: Edges of complement predication 5: Edges of adjunct and secondary predication 6: Concluding remarks

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• Authors: Heejeong Ko, Heejeong (Assistant Professor Ko, Ko Heejeong
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2014
• EAN: 9780199660261
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966026-1
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Theoretical
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc