Studies on universal grammar and typological variation / edited by Artemis Alexiadou, T. Alan Hall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexiadou, Artemis.

Hall, T. Alan.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 13.

Linguistik aktuell, 0166-0829 ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Typology (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Typology (Linguistics).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., [1997]

Contents:

Typological implications of a directionality contraint on projections / Hubert Haider

Universal grammar and the typology of ergative languages / Anoop Mahajan

Some properties of ellipsis in coordination / Chris Wilder

Deriving the parameterisation of the mapping hypothesis / David Adger

Syntactic dependencies and their properties : weak islands / M. Rita Manzini

On extraction, argument binding, and voice morphology in Malagasy / Paul Law

Universals and minimalist features : checking in AgrO / Elly van Gelderen

Genitive subjects and the VSO order / Jamal Ouhalla

Some properties of clitics : (with special reference to modern Greek) / Gaberell Drachman.

Notes:

"[Papers presented at] a conference on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation held in March 1994 at the Forschungsschwerpunkt Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, FAS (Reasearch Center for General Linguistics) in Berlin."--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1556192320

OCLC:

36011547