The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages (Oxford Studies in Comparati

Description: This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.

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Book Title: The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages (Oxford Studies in Comparati

Number of Pages: 272 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication Year: 2000

Subject: Linguistics / Syntax, Linguistics / General

Item Height: 0.8 in

Item Weight: 14.1 Oz

Type: Textbook

Item Length: 6 in

Author: Eithne Guilfoyle

Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines

Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax Ser.

Item Width: 9.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback