Theoretical approaches to universals / edited by Artemis Alexiadou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexiadou, Artemis.

Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung.

Universität Potsdam. Institut für Linguistik.

Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 49.

Linguistik aktuell, 0166-0829 = Linguistics today ; v. 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic universals--Congresses.

Linguistic universals.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

viii, 316 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present volume has its origin in the GLOW conference on Universals hosted in Berlin in March 1999. The papers in this volume are concerned both with formal as well as with substantive universals. All the contributions attempt to identify universal properties of the language faculty, as well as the source of cross-linguistic variation. They cover a wide range of empirical phenomena across languages such as locality, deletion, verb classes, XP-split constructions, Quantifier Raising, the EPP, the Person Case Constraint etc. Some of the articles pay particular attention to the organization of the grammar, the type of operations that are effective, the role of features in determining variation, and primitive notions of phrase-structure (c-command, Agree etc.). Others show how structural differences capture semantic and morphological differences within a language and across languages, and how these are the ultimate source of linguistic variation. The book is of primary interest to researchers and students in syntactic theory, comparative syntax, and linguistic variation.

Contents:

Theoretical Approaches to Universals

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

List of contributors

Introduction

Universal features and language-particular morphemes

Agree or attract?

Distributed deletion

Roots, constituents, and c-command

A four-way classification of monadic verbs

On Agreement

A minimalist account of conflation processes

Morphological constraints on syntactic derivations

Intermediate traces, reconstruction and locality effects

Index

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Papers from a conference on universals organized by the Research Center for General Linguistics, the Linguistics Department of the University of Potsdam and the Dutch Graduate School in Linguistics and hosted in Berlin in March 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612254581

9780585462493

0585462496

9781282254589

1282254588

9789027297563

9027297568

OCLC:

614558873