Clause Structure in South Asian Languages

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 61
• The researchers in the field of theoretical and theoretically inclined descriptive linguistics have for a long time felt a need for detailed and clear... Lees meer

Peripheries

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 59
• The syntactic periphery has become one of the most important areas of research in syntactic theory in recent years, due to the emergence of new resear... Lees meer

Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure

Jim Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 90
• This book provides a detailed study of Icelandic argument structure alternations within a syntactic theory of argument structure. Building on recent t... Lees meer

Contributions of Romance Languages to Current Linguistic Theory

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 95
• Includes chapters written by the top international scholars in their respective fields Covers a wide range of Romance languages and dialects Will serv... Lees meer

Formal Issues in Austronesian Linguistics

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 49
• Austronesian languages have long raised interesting questions for generative theories of syntax and morphology. The papers in this volume encompass so... Lees meer

Parameters in Old French Syntax: Infinitival Complements

E H Pearce

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 18
• 1.1. AIMS AND ASSUMPTIONS This book presents an analysis of infinitival complement constructions in Old French (OF) from the perspective of the Govern... Lees meer

Verb Phrase Syntax: A Parametric Study of English and Spanish

Karen Zagona

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 13
• This study is concerned with the structure of verb phrases in English and Spanish, and with syntactic processes involving VP and Vo. A primary focus o... Lees meer

Mixed Categories

C Lefebvre, P C Muysken

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 11
• Our book on nominalizations in Quechua summarizes the work we have carried out on. this language over the last ten years. We are happy to offer it as ... Lees meer

The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Focus and Topic Constructions in Italian

M Frascarelli

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 50
• "...this work represents a key case study in the study of the prosody and syntax interactions." (Pilar Prieto, Lingua 115, 2005) Lees meer

Copular Sentences in Russian

Asya Pereltsvaig

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 70
• This book provides a detailed study and a novel Minimalist account of copular sentences in Russian, focusing on case marking alternations (nominative ... Lees meer

Building Predicates

Justin Nuger

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 92
• This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the syntax of Palauan that will appeal to anyone interested in Austronesian languages or formal synta... Lees meer

Non-Projecting Words

I Toivonen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 58
• Focusing primarily on Swedish, a Germanic language whose particles have not previously been studied extensively, Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study on... Lees meer

Directionality and Logical Form

Josef Bayer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 34
• Directionality and Logical Form provides a detailed treatment of the syntax of focusing particles, such as only and even in a cross-linguistic perspec... Lees meer

Order and Constituency in Mandarin Chinese

Audrey Li Yen Hui

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 19
• Recent developments in generative grammar have been very stimulating. The current theory defines a small set of principles that apply to all human lan... Lees meer

New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 36
• The past decade and a half has witnessed a great deal of renewed interest in the study of Chinese linguistics, not only in the traditional areas of ph... Lees meer

The Role of Case in Russian Syntax

C Neidle

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 10
• This manuscript is a revision of my 1982 MIT dissertation of the same name. A previous version of sections of chapters 1 and 5 appeared as 'Case Agree... Lees meer

The Navajo Sound System

J M McDonough

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 55
• The Navajo language is spoken by the Navajo people who live in the Navajo Nation, located in Arizona and New Mexico in the southwestern United States.... Lees meer

Optimality Theory and Language Change

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 56
• Optimality Theory and Language Change : -discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail; -treats the history of a variety of langua... Lees meer

Morphosemantic Number:

Daniel Harbour

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 69
• Number is a major research domain in semantics, syntax and morphology. However, no current theory of number is applicable to all three fields. In this... Lees meer

Objects and Other Subjects

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 52
• The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical co... Lees meer

A Cross-Linguistic Approach to the Syntax of Subjunctive Mood

Lena Baunaz, Genoveva Puskás

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 101
• Proposes a syntactic account of subjunctive embedded clauses Offers a new range of cross-linguistic empirical facts Provides new insights into recent ... Lees meer

Minimalist Syntax for Quantifier Raising, Topicalization and Focus Movement: A Search and Float Approach for Internal Merge

Jun Abe

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 93
• This volume examines how the displacement property of language is characterized in formal terms under the Minimalist Program and to what extent this p... Lees meer

New Horizons in the Analysis of Control and Raising

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 71
• Raising and control have figured in every comprehensive model of syntax for forty years. What beside the canonical constructions might be subject to r... Lees meer

Case Absorption and Wh-Agreement

A Watanabe

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | nr. 37
• This book is an extensively revised version of the core part of my 1993 MIT doctoral dissertation, which seeks to provide a Minimalist theory of Case ... Lees meer