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Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B : linguistic explorations in honor of David M. Perlmutter / Donna B. Gerdts, John C. Moore, and Maria Polinsky, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Current studies in linguistics series ; 49.
- Current studies in linguistics ; 49
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistics.
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (534 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Essays reflecting the influence of the versatile linguist David M. Perlmutter, covering topics from theoretical morphology to sign language phonology.
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Preface; My Path in Linguistics; 1 Depictives and Serialization in Tzotzil; 2 Prolegomenon to Any Future Typology of Impersonal Sentences; 3 Romanian as a Two-Gender Language; 4 1-handed PERSONs and ASL Morphology; 5 Six Arguments for Wh-Movement in Chamorro; 6 On the Existence (and Distribution) of Sentential Subjects; 7 Syntax and Semantics of Polish Emotion Verbs: A Corpus Study; 8 Term Relations and Relational Hierarchies; 9 Constraints on Verb Stem Stacking in Southern Tiwa; 10 Three Doubling Constructions in Halkomelem
- 11 Origins of Differential Unaccusative/Unergative Case Marking: Implications for Innateness12 Underlying and Surface Grammatical Relations in Greek consider Sentences; 13 French Inchoatives and the Unaccusativity Hypothesis; 14 On the Analytic Expression of Predicates in Meskwaki; 15 Unpassives of Unaccusatives; 16 Semantic and Syntactic Subcategorization in Seri: Recipients and Addressees; 17 Impersonals in Irish and Beyond; 18 Does Spatial Make It Special? On the Grammar of Pointing Signs in American Sign Language; 19 Object-Controlled Restructuring in Spanish
- 20 Against All Expectations: Encoding Subjects and Objects in a New Language21 Clitic Placement in Romance: A Phase-Theoretic Approach; 22 Missing Obliques: Some Anomalies in Ojibwe Syntax; 23 Modeling the Mapping from ''Conceptual Structure'' to Syntax; Publications of David M. Perlmutter; Author Index; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-54178-1
- 9786612541780
- 0-262-25880-3
- OCLC:
- 923251275
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