Principles and Parameters of Syntactic Saturation

Zusatztext `Webelhuth's book is very clearly written ... an important contribution to syntactic theory ... presents a serious challenge to linguists interested in determining whether other languages! especially those that exhibit greater word order freedom than the Germanic languages ... can also be captured within this framework.'Michigan Germanic Studies Klappentext A linguistics instructor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides a restrictive theory of parameters on the nature and limits of syntactic variation. "This study is a very important contribution to both German (and Germanic) syntax and to linguistic theory".--Jindrich Toman, University of Michigan. Zusammenfassung This ambitious work represents the first full-scale attempt to provide a restrictive theory of parameters, i.e. of the nature and limits of syntactic variation.

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• Authors: Gert Webelhuth, Gert (Post-Doctoral Fellow Webelhuth, Webelhuth Gert
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.1992
• EAN: 9780195070415
• ISBN: 978-0-19-507041-5
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative; Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, Grammar & vocabulary, Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary