Parameters and universals / Richard S. Kayne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kayne, Richard S., author.

Series:

Oxford studies in comparative syntax.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in comparative syntax

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Syntax.

Romance languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published as separate volumes, this collection of essays covers issues of comparative syntax, mainly auxiliaries and inflection, as they are applied to the principal Romance languages and dialects.

Contents:

Contents; I. Romance; 1. Microparametric Syntax: Some Introductory Remarks; 2. Past Participle Agreement in French and Italian; 3. Facets of Romance Past Participle Agreement; 4. Null Subjects and Clitic Climbing; 5. Romance Clitics, Verb Movement, and PRO; 6. Italian Negative Infinitival Imperatives and Clitic Climbing; 7. Toward a Modular Theory of Auxiliary Selection; 8. Person Morphemes and Reflexives in Italian, French, and Related Languages; 9. A Note on Clitic Doubling in French; II. English; 10. Notes on English Agreement

11. Agreement and Verb Morphology in Three Varieties of English12. The English Complementizer of; III. Universals; 13. Overt versus Covert Movement; 14. Prepositional Complementizers as Attractors; 15. A Note on Prepositions, Complementizers, and Word Order Universals; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772212-1

1-280-52857-5

0-19-535621-7

1-4294-0370-5

OCLC:

476010758