Rarely Used Structures and Lesser-Studied Languages: Insights from the Margins - Brossura

Manetta, Emily

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0367784076 ISBN 13: 9780367784072

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2021

Riassunto

This book investigates a set of marginal syntactic structures which have been singularly influential in the development of generative theory, spotlighting lesser-studied languages of the Indic family while emphasizing implications for linguistic theory more broadly. After first defining what constitutes a marginal syntactic structure, this book then undertakes a micro-comparative approach to the rigorous exploration of fundamental properties of human language, including displacement, ellipsis, unbounded dependencies, and the role of clausal peripheries in such languages as Kashmiri and Romani. In so doing, Manetta interrogates and ultimately affirms the relevance of marked and marginal strings which have proven to be crucial to generative syntax while simultaneously advocating for the role of lesser-studied languages to the study of such properties. This book is key reading for graduate students and researchers in linguistics and syntax more specifically, as well as those interested in the study of Indic languages.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Emily Manetta is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Vermont, USA.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0367784076
• ISBN 13: 9780367784072
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 170
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania