Xp-Adjunction in Universal Grammar - Scrambling and Binding in Hindi-Urdu

Klappentext One of the most hotly debated phenomena in natural language is that of leftward argument scrambling. This book investigates the properties of Hindi-Urdu scrambling to show that it must be analyzed as uniformly a focality-driven XP-adjunction operation. It proposes a novel theory of binding and coreference that not only derives the coreference effects in scrambled constructions! but has important consequences for the proper formulation of binding! crossover! reconstruction! and representational economy in the minimalist program. The book will be of interest not only to specialists in Hindi-Urdu syntax and/or scrambling! but to all students of generative syntax. Zusammenfassung Investigating the properties of Hindi-Urdu scrambling, this text analyses it as uniformly a focality-driven XP-adjunction operation. It proposes a theory of binding and co-reference that derives the co-reference effects in scrambled constructions.

List of contents

• Preface


• 1: Issues in the Study of Scrambling


• 2: Scrambling: Syntactic Properties


• 3: The Structure of the UG Clause


• 4: Binding and Coreference in UG


• 5: Scrambling, Focus, and Specificity


• 6: XP-Adjunction in UG


• Notes


• References


• Index

Product details

• Authors: Ayesha Kidwai, Ayesha (Assistant Professor of Linguistics Kidwai, Kidwai Ayesha
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2000
• EAN: 9780195132519
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513251-9
• No. of pages: 200
• 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; Urdu, Hindi, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Computational Linguistics, Computational and corpus linguistics