Rethinking Parameters

Zusatztext The editors of the volume collected an excellent set of papers which should inspire further debate on the parameter and its place within current syntactic theories, a topic that is very much relevant as we continue to discuss the limits of linguistic variation and search for a solution to Plato's Problem. Informationen zum Autor Luis Eguren is Full Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.; Olga Fernández-Soriano is Full Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.; Amaya Mendikoetxea Pelayo is currently a senior lecturer in the department of English Philology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Klappentext This collection of articles provides an overview of current generative theorizing and empirical work on the nature, origin and scope of parameters of linguistic variation. Often taking diverging views, the papers in the volume address some or all of the main debated topics in parametric syntax. Zusammenfassung This collection of articles provides an overview of current generative theorizing and empirical work on the nature, origin and scope of parameters of linguistic variation. Often taking diverging views, the papers in the volume address some or all of the main debated topics in parametric syntax.

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• Authors: Luis Eguren, Luis Fernandez Soriano Eguren
• Assisted by: Luis Eguren (Editor), Eguren Luis (Editor), Olga Fernandez-Soriano (Editor), Amaya Mendikoetxea (Editor), Mendikoetxea Amaya (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2016
• EAN: 9780190461737
• ISBN: 978-0-19-046173-7
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative
• 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