
Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 13. February 1997
Book
Hardback
252 pages
978-90-272-2734-8 (ISBN)
Description
The articles of the present volume consist of generative analyses dealing with several current topics of discussion and debate in syntactic theory, such as clitics, word order, scrambling, directionality, movement. The data in the volume are drawn from a number of typologically diverse languages (e.g. Arabic, Berber, Dutch, Gaelic, Greek, Malagasy).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2734-8 (9789027227348)
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Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
Content
1. Introduction (by Alexiadou, Artemis); 2. Typological Implications of a directionality constraint on projections (by Haider, Hubert); 3. Universal Grammar and the Typology of Ergative Languages (by Mahajan, Anoop K.); 4. Some Properties of Ellipsis in Coordination (by Wilder, Chris); 5. Deriving the Parametrisation of the Mapping Hypothesis (by Adger, David); 6. Syntactic Dependencies and their properties: weak islands (by Manzini, Maria Rita); 7. On Extraction, argument binding and voice morphology in Malagasy (by Law, Paul); 8. Universals and Minimalist Features (by Gelderen, Elly van); 9. Genitive Subjects and the VSO Order (by Ouhalla, Jamal); 10. Some Properties of Clitics (with special reference to Modern Greek) (by Drachman, Gaberell)