Order and Structure in Syntax I

R Bailey, Laura; Sheehan, Michelle

ISBN 10: 1013289692 / ISBN 13: 9781013289699

Published by Saint Philip Street Press, 2020

In. Seller Inventory # ria9781013289699_new

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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Bibliographic Details

Title: Order and Structure in Syntax I
Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New