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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.
Details
Subject(s)
Grammar, Comparative and general
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Syntax
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Cinque, Guglielmo
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Kayne, Richard S.
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Series
Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
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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.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Language note
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.
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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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