Architectures, Rules, and Preferences - Variations on Themes by Joan W. Bresnan

Informationen zum Autor Annie Zaenen is principal scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center and consulting professor at Stanford University. Klappentext "Architectures! Rules! and Preferences" reflects the interests and honors the influence of Joan W. Bresnan's two decades of foundational work on Lexical-Functional Grammar. This comprehensive volume includes contributions by leading linguists on language typology! synchronic variation! language change! constituent structure! function identification! subject condition! control! complex predicates! NP internal structure! wh-constructions! syntactic features! and lexical issues. Featuring an impressive range of empirical and theoretical research! this collection covers more than a dozen spoken languages as well as American Sign Language. Zusammenfassung Includes contributions on language typology! synchronic variation! language change! constituent structure! function identification! subject condition! control! complex predicates! NP internal structure! wh-constructions! syntactic features! and lexical issues. This volume covers more than a dozen spoken languages as well as American Sign Language.

Product details

• Authors: Annie Zaenen, Annie (EDT)/ Simpson Zaenen
• Assisted by: Tracy Holloway King (Editor), Jane Simpson (Editor), Annie Zaenen (Editor), Annie E. Zaenen (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2007
• EAN: 9781575865607
• ISBN: 978-1-57586-560-7
• No. of pages: 554
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes; Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes; CSLI Lecture Notes; CSLI Lecture Notes (CSLI- CHUP)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics