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).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The articles of the present volume consist of generative analyses dealing with several current topics of discussion and debate in syntactic theory, such as clitics, word order, scrambling, directionality, movement. The data in the volume are drawn from a number of typologically diverse languages (e.g. Arabic, Berber, Dutch, Gaelic, Greek, Malagasy).

Contents:

Introduction / Artemis Alexiadou & T. Alan Hall

Typological implications of a directionality constraint 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 which was held Mar. 1994, Forschungsschwerpunkt Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Ger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-23425-4

9786613234254

90-272-8237-4

OCLC:

745866935