
Order and structure in syntax I
Word order and syntactic structure
Freie Universität Berlin Universitätsbibliothek (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 10. January 2018
Book
Hardback
395 pages
978-3-96110-027-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language.
This book is complemented by Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure
This book is complemented by Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure
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Product info
GB
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
952 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-96110-027-9 (9783961100279)
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Persons
Michelle Sheehan is a Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at Anglia Ruskin University. She specialises in comparative and theoretical syntax with a particular focus on Romance languages. She is co-author of Parametric Variation (2010, CUP) and The Philosophy of Universal Grammar (2013, OUP), and co-editor of Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order (2013, OUP).