The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads - Collected Essays of Hilda J. Koopman

Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as:
* interpretation and distribution of pronouns
* ECP effects
* specifiers and phrase structure
* the role and functioning of head movement
* the architecture of grammar
Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch.

List of contents

Acknowledgments, Introduction, PART I Pronouns and WCO, PART II ECP, PART III Specifiers and phrase structure, PART IV Heads, PART V Specifiers and Heads, Index

About the author

Hilda J Koopman

Summary

The essays here cover a wide range of topics: the interpretation and distribution of pronouns; ECP effects; specifiers and phrase structure; heads; the role and functioning of head movement; and the architecture of grammar.

Product details

• Authors: Hilda J Koopman
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.1999
• EAN: 9780415161831
• ISBN: 978-0-415-16183-1
• No. of pages: 398
• Weight: 900 g
• Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology