The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
Published on 29. June 2000
265 pages
978-0-19-803029-4 (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 cross-linguistic 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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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.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Celtic Initials
- Chapter 3 VSO Order as Raising Out of IP? Some Evidence from Old Irish
- Chapter 4 Tense and N-features in Irish
- Chapter 5 VSO and Left-conjunct Agreement: Biblical Hebrew vs. Modern Hebrew
- Chapter 6 VSO and VOS: Aspects of Niuean Word Order
- Chapter 7 V-initial Languages: X or XP Movement and Adverbial Placement
- Chapter 8 VP Remnant Movement and VSO in Quiavini Zapotec
- Chapter 9 Locus Operandi
- Chapter 10 Prosodic Conditions on Anaphora and Clitics in Jakaltek
- Chapter 11 Animacy Hierarchies and Sentence Processing
- Chapter 12 Predicate Raising in Lummi, Straits Salish
- References
- Index
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