The Oxford handbook of comparative syntax / edited by Guglielmo Cinque, Richard S. Kayne.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Description
xii, 977 p. : ill.

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Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics [More in this series]
Summary note
Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. This work provides an introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains of linguistic inquiry. It is useful for scholars and students in formal linguistics.
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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English
Contents
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • 1. Some Notes on Comparative Syntax, with Special Reference to English and French
  • 2. On the Grammatical Basis of Language Development: A Case Study
  • 3. Comparative Syntax and Language Disorders
  • 4. Object Shift, Verb Movement, and Verb Reduplication
  • 5. Finiteness and Negation in Dravidian
  • 6. On Some Descriptive Generalizations in Romance
  • 7. Classifiers in Four Varieties of Chinese
  • 8. Morphology and Word Order in "Creolization" and Beyond
  • 9. The Slavic Languages
  • 10. The Scandinavian Languages
  • 11. Noun Class, Gender, and the Lexicon-Syntax-Morphology Interfaces: A Comparative Study of Niger-Congo and Romance Languages
  • 12. Agreement and Its Placement in Turkic Nonsubject Relative Clauses
  • 13. Qu'est-ce-que (qu)-est-ce que? A Case Study in Comparative Romance Interrogative Syntax
  • 14. Clitic Placement, Grammaticalization, and Reanalysis in Berber
  • 15. Clitic Placement in Western Iberian: A Minimalist View
  • 16. Comparative Athapaskan Syntax: Arguments and Projections
  • 17. Number Agreement Variation in Catalan Dialects
  • 18. Classifiers and DP Structure in Southeast Asia
  • 19. The Celtic Languages
  • 20. Preverbal Elements in Korean and Japanese
  • 21. Continental West-Germanic Languages
  • Language Index.
ISBN
  • 1-4337-0092-1
  • 1-4237-1998-0
  • 1-280-53099-5
  • 9781423719980
  • 9786610530991
  • 0-19-972274-9
OCLC
  • 923707811
  • 865329683
  • 53469486
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