Language universals and variation / edited by Mengistu Amberber and Peter Collins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amberber, Mengistu, 1961-

Collins, Peter, 1950-

Series:

Perspectives on cognitive science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Typology (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

vii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Contents:

1 Quirky Alternations of Transitivity: The Case of Ingestive Predicates / Mengistu Amberber 1

Ingestives in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective 4

Ingestives and Ambitransitivity 10

Ingestives as Three-Place Predicates 12

2 Explaining Clitic Variation in Spanish / Jose Camacho, Liliana Sanchez 21

Overview of the Third Person Clitic Paradigm in Spanish 22

Overview of the Etymological and the Referential Dialects 22

Accounting for the Etymological Dialect and Referential A Dialects 25

Contact Dialects 28

3 Slavic Passives, Bantu Passives, and Human Cognition / Peter F. Kipka 41

A Framework 42

Slavic 45

Bantu 49

Small Clauses 54

Prototypicality 56

4 The Split VP Hypothesis: Evidence from Language Acquisition / Masatoshi Koizumi 61

The Split VP Hypothesis 63

Preverbal Objects 67

A Split VP Account 71

Further Prediction 74

Clausal Architecture 75

5 Syntactic Constraints in a "Free Word Order" Language / Mary Laughren 83

Composition of Warlpiri AUX 86

Syntactic Constraints on the Position of AUX 92

Negative AUX 112

A Comparative Overview 117

6 On the Range and Variety of Cases Assigned by Adpositions / Alan R. Libert 131

Type I

Languages with One (Main) Adpositional Case 132

Type II

Languages with More Than One Adpositional Case 143

Toward a Minimalist Account of Adpositional Case 150

7 Optimality and Three Western Austronesian Case Systems / Anna Maclachlan 155

Background: Case System Typology, Optimality and Austronesian 156

Three Western Austronesian Case Systems in OT 160

8 Affixes, Clitics, and Bantu Morphosyntax / Sam Mchombo 185

Morpholexical versus Morphosyntactic Processes 186

Verbal Suffixation 188

Verbal Prefixation 192

Affixes versus Clitics 193

Clitics and Inflectional Morphology 194

On the Architecture of Universal Grammar 197

Acquired Language Deficit 199

Language Change 201

Language Acquisition 202

Parsing Strategies for Bantu 204

9 Two Types of Wh-In-Situ / Masanori Nakamura 211

Lexical Properties 213

Syntactic Properties 215

Toward a Nonunitary Account 219

Null Operator Movement as Feature Movement 225

10 Vowel Place Contrasts / Keren Rice 239

Evidence for Peripheral 241

The Phonetic Realization of Peripheral Vowels 260

Conclusions and Consequences 263.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0275976823

0275976831

OCLC:

48477598