Verb First: On the Syntax Verb Initial Languages (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today)

Andrew Carnie,Heidi Harley,Sheila Ann Dooley-Collberg

ISBN 10: 9027227977 / ISBN 13: 9789027227973

Editore: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2005

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Titolo: Verb First: On the Syntax Verb Initial ...

Casa editrice: John Benjamins Publishing Co

Data di pubblicazione: 2005

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Like New

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This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of these languages. Major themes in the volume include the role of syntactic category in languages with verb-initial order; the different mechanisms of deriving V-initial order; and the universal correlates of the order. This book should be of interest to scholars who work on theoretical approaches to word order derivation, typologists, and those who work on the particular grammars of Celtic, Zapotec, Mixtec, Polynesian, Austronesian, Mayan, Salish, Aboriginal, and Nilotic languages.