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Order and structure in syntax I Word order and syntactic structure

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sheehan, Michelle
Other Authors: R. Bailey, Laura
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Language Science Press 2017
Series:Open Generative Syntax
Subjects:
Pronoun
Linguistics
Verb
Grammatical Functions
Morphology (linguistics)
Word Order
Universals In Language
Swedish Language
Object Shift
Order In Syntax
Structure In Syntax
Movement
Preposition And Postposition
Head-directionality Parameter
V2
Subjecthood
Periphrasis
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Collection: OAPEN - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Physical Description:412 p.
ISBN:9783961100279
zenodo.1117686

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