The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
Published on 20. July 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-19-513223-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a crosslinguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-513223-6 (9780195132236)
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The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
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Persons
Andrew Carnie is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona.
Eithne Guilfoyle is Head of Humanities at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology.
Eithne Guilfoyle is Head of Humanities at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology.
Editor
Assistant Professor of LinguisticsAssistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona
Head of Humanities, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design, and Technology; and Adjunct Associate ProfessorHead of Humanities, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design, and Technology; and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Calgary
Content
Chapter 1: Andrew Carnie and Eithne Guilfoyle: Introduction
Chapter 2: Randall Hendrick: Celtic Initials
Chapter 3: Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, and Elizabeth Pyatt: VSO Order as Raising Out of IP? Some Evidence from Old Irish
Chapter 4: Eithne Guilfoyle: Tense and N-features in Irish
Chapter 5: Edit Doron: VSO and Left-conjunct Agreement: Biblical Hebrew vs. Modern Hebrew
Chapter 6: Diane Massam: VSO and VOS: Aspects of Niuean Word Order
Chapter 7: Andrea Rackowski and Lisa Travis: V-initial Languages: X or XP Movement and Adverbial Placement
Chapter 8: Felicia Lee: VP Remnant Movement and VSO in Quiavini Zapotec
Chapter 9: Ray Freeze and Carol Georgopoulos: Locus Operandi
Chapter 10: Judith Aissen: Prosodic Conditions on Anaphora and Cliticsin Jakaltek
Chapter 11: Seth Minkoff: Animacy Hierarchies and Sentence Processing
Chapter 12: Eloise Jelinek: Predicate Raising in Lummi, Straits Salish
References
Index
Chapter 2: Randall Hendrick: Celtic Initials
Chapter 3: Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, and Elizabeth Pyatt: VSO Order as Raising Out of IP? Some Evidence from Old Irish
Chapter 4: Eithne Guilfoyle: Tense and N-features in Irish
Chapter 5: Edit Doron: VSO and Left-conjunct Agreement: Biblical Hebrew vs. Modern Hebrew
Chapter 6: Diane Massam: VSO and VOS: Aspects of Niuean Word Order
Chapter 7: Andrea Rackowski and Lisa Travis: V-initial Languages: X or XP Movement and Adverbial Placement
Chapter 8: Felicia Lee: VP Remnant Movement and VSO in Quiavini Zapotec
Chapter 9: Ray Freeze and Carol Georgopoulos: Locus Operandi
Chapter 10: Judith Aissen: Prosodic Conditions on Anaphora and Cliticsin Jakaltek
Chapter 11: Seth Minkoff: Animacy Hierarchies and Sentence Processing
Chapter 12: Eloise Jelinek: Predicate Raising in Lummi, Straits Salish
References
Index