Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This volume contains 12 chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew (Assistant Professor of Linguistics Carnie, Andrew Guilfoyle Carnie
• Assisted by: Andrew Carnie (Editor), Andrew (Assistant Professor of Linguistics Carnie (Editor), Carnie Andrew (Editor), Eithne Guilfoyle (Editor), Eithne (Head of Humanities Guilfoyle (Editor), Guilfoyle Eithne (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.01.2001
• EAN: 9780195132229
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513222-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative; Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology