Elements Of Comparative Syntax

Author : Enoch Aboh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501504037
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elements of Comparative Syntax written by Enoch Aboh and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a selection of articles illustrating the multifaceted nature of current research in generative syntax. The authors, including some of the leading figures in the field, present analyses of typologically diverse languages, with some studies drawing on dialectal, acquisitional and diachronic evidence. Set against this rich empirical background, the contributions address an equally wide range of theoretical issues.

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ISBN 13 : 9781501504044
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elements of Comparative Syntax written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to stud.

Author : Luigi Rizzi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134608268
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Syntax and Language Acquisition written by Luigi Rizzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, the author addresses the central issues in syntax theory, comparative syntax and the theoretically conscious study of language acquisition. Key topics are explored, including the properties of null elements and the theory of parameters. Some of the essays presented here have been highly influential in their field, while others are published for the first time.

Author : Richard S. Kayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199732523
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparisons and Contrasts written by Richard S. Kayne and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 11 of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic differences among languages to probe the properties of the human language faculty.

Author : Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195136519
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax written by Guglielmo Cinque and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. The study of closely-related varieties has proven extremely useful in illuminating relations between cross-linguistic syntactic differences that might otherwise appear unrelated, and has helped to identify the core principles of Universal Grammar. Comparative studies have grown to the point where a reference work is needed to comprehensively explain the state of the field and makes its results more widely known, and this handbook fulfills that need. Its twenty-one commissioned chapters serve two functions: they provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains on linguistic inquiry; and they also provide a systematic selection of the best comparative work being done today on those language groups and families where substantial progress has been achieved. With top-notch editors and contributors from around the world, this volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students in formal linguistics."--

Author : Liliane M. V. Haegeman
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Comparative Syntax written by Liliane M. V. Haegeman and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon recent theoretical developments and empirical discoveries, this book provides a coherent and comprehensive introdution to generative research in this field. Dr. Haegeman brings together ten chapters to illustrate the new appraoch to comparative grammar which has developed against the background of the 'principles and parameters' model. The contributors show how this framework guides empirical research by seeking to reveal the underlying grammatical basis for similarities and differences between languages and language groups. Throughout the text, attention is drawn to the ways in which empirical study feeds into theory construction, raising new questions for the overall conceptual framework and sometimes providing new solution

Author : Ermenegildo Bidese
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788880982852
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Il cimbro negli studi di linguistica written by Ermenegildo Bidese and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The aim of the project is to provide a comparative analysis of fourteen languages of various families within the framework of the Principles & Parameters theory using many (though not all) minimalist notions."--Foreword.

Author : Richard S. Kayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190863617
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Questions of Syntax written by Richard S. Kayne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought; yet there are far fewer than there might have been. Questions of Syntax collects sixteen papers authored by Richard S. Kayne, a preeminent theoretical syntactician, who has sought over the course of his career to understand why both these facts are true. With a particular emphasis on comparative syntax, these chapters collectively consider how wide a range of questions the field of syntax can reasonably attempt to ask and then answer. At issue, among other topics, are the relation between syntax and (certain aspects of) semantics, the relation between syntax and what appear to be lexical questions, the relation between syntax and morphology, the relation between syntax and certain aspects of phonology (insofar as silent elements and their properties play a substantial role), and the extent to which comparative syntax can provide new and decisive evidence bearing on these different kinds of questions. To Kayne, comparative syntax can shed light on what may initially seem lexical questions, and antisymmetry on the evolution of human language itself. Taken as a whole, these essays elucidate the theoretical contributions of one the most influential scholars in linguistics.

Author : Liliane Haegeman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401154201
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elements of Grammar written by Liliane Haegeman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this Handbook is to provide a forum in which some of the generative syntacticians whose work has had an impact on theoretical syntax over the past 20 years are invited to present their views on one or more aspects of current syntactic theory. The following authors have contributed to the volume: Mark Baker, Michael Brody, Jane Grimshaw, James McCloskey, Jean-Yves Pollock, and Luigi Rizzi. Each contribution focuses on one specific aspect of the grammar. As a general theme, the papers are concerned with the question of the composition of the clause, i.e. what kind of components the clause is made up of, and how these components are put together in the clause. The introduction to the volume provides the backdrop for the papers and highlights some of the developments that have occurred in theoretical syntax in the last ten years. Elements of Grammar is destined for an audience of linguists working in the generative framework.

Author : Naoki Fukui
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134326661
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Comparative Syntax written by Naoki Fukui and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Specifiers and projection -- 2. LF extraction of naze : some theoretical implications -- 3. Strong and weak barriers : remarks on the proper characterization of barriers -- 4. Parameters and optionality -- 5. A note on improper movement -- 6. The principles-and-parameters approach : a comparative syntax of English and Japanese -- 7. Symmetry in syntax : merge and demerge -- 8. Order in phrase structure and movement -- 9. An A-over-A perspective on locality -- 10. The uniqueness parameter -- 11. Nominal structure : an extension of the Symmetry Principle -- 12. Phrase structure -- 13. The Visibility Guideline for functional categories : verb-raising in Japanese and related issues.