Mirrors and Microparameters - Phrase Structure Beyond Free Word Order

Informationen zum Autor David Adger is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Queen Mary! University of London. Daniel Harbour is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Queen Mary! University of London. Laurel J. Watkins is Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics in the Department of Anthropology at Colorado College. Klappentext Looks at the nature of free word order and phrase structure! with particular reference to a single endangered language Kiowa. Zusammenfassung Drawing on data from Kiowa! a member of the largely undescribed Kiowa-Tanoan language family! this book reveals that classically nonconfigurational languages can nonetheless exhibit configurational effects. This approach challenges widespread assumptions of linguistic theory and throws light on the syntactic structures and ordering principles of Universal Grammar. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Nonconfigurationality and polysynthesis; 3. The clausal spin; 4. Making mirrors; 5. Interface properties of clausal domains; 6. Anti-quantification and the syntax-semantics interface; 7. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: David Adger, David Harbour Adger, Daniel Harbour, Laurel J. Watkins
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521517560
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51756-0
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology