Order and Structure in Syntax I - Softcover

R Bailey, Laura; Sheehan, Michelle

 
9781013289682: Order and Structure in Syntax I
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1013289684 ISBN 13: 9781013289682
Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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Publisher
Saint Philip Street Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1013289684
ISBN 13 
9781013289682
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
408

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