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The final-over-final condition : a syntactic universal / by Michelle Sheehan, Theresa Biberauer, Ian Roberts and Anders Holmberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheehan, Michelle, author.
- Biberauer, Theresa, author.
- Roberts, Ian G., author.
- Holmberg, Anders, author.
- Series:
- Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 76.
- Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 76
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Word order.
- Head-driven phrase structure grammar.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (464 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a universal word order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and discusses the theoretical implications of this phenomenon. FOFC is a syntactic condition that disallows structures where a head-initial phrase is contained in a head-final phrase in the same extended projection/domainches The authors argue that FOFC is a linguistic universal, not just a strong tendency, and not a constraint on processing. They discuss the effects of the universal in various domains, including the noun phrase, the adjective phrase, the verb phrase, and the clause. The book draws on data from a wide range of languages, including Hindi, Turkish, Basque, Finnish, Afrikaans, German, Hungarian, French, English, Italian, Romanian, Arabic, Hebrew, Mandarin, Pontic Greek, Bagirmi, Dholuo, and Thai. FOFC, the authors argue, is important because it is the only known example of a word order asymmetry pertaining to the order of heads. As such, it has significant repercussions for theories connecting the narrow syntax to linear order.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262342018
- 0262342014
- OCLC:
- 1078787023
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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