Correlatives cross-linguistically / edited by Aniko Liptak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lipták, Anikó Klára, 1973-

Series:

Language faculty and beyond ; v. 1.

Language faculty and beyond ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Relative clauses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

vi, 375 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together recent work in generative syntax on correlative relative constructions. Greatly expanding on the Hindi-oriented scope of previous studies, it describes and analyzes correlative constructions in a range of languages, such as Basque, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Sanskrit, Serbo-Croatian and Tibetan, in comparison to correlativization in Hindi. The articles zoom in on three areas of interest: firstly, the similarities and differences between correlatives and other wh- and relative constructions; secondly, the derivation of correlative constructions and the position correlative clauses occupy in the host clause and thirdly, the matching effects that characterize the pairings between relative phrases and demonstrative phrases. The studies presented here will appeal to researchers and students with an interest in syntax in general and relativization strategies in particular.

Contents:

The landscape of correlatives : an empirical and analytical survey / Anikó Lipták

What don't wh-questions, free relatives, and correlatives have in common? / Barbara Citko

Basque correlatives and their kin in the history of northern Basque / Georges Rebuschi

{Relative {conditional {correlative clauses}}} / Boban Arsenijević

Relatively different : Italian sign language relative clauses in a typological perspective / Chiara Branchini and Caterina Donati

The syntax of the Tibetan correlative / Seth Cable

Adjunction, features and locality in Sanskrit and Hindi/Urdu correlatives / Alice Davison

Comparative correlatives and successive cyclicity / Marcel den Dikken

On the matching requirement in correlatives / Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung

Matching effects in the temporal and locative domains / Rajesh Bhatt and Anikó Lipták.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612169854

9781282169852

1282169858

9789027289421

9027289425

OCLC:

436148345