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Mirrors and microparameters : phrase structure beyond free word order / David Adger, Daniel Harbour and Laurel J. Watkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adger, David, author.
- Harbour, Daniel, author.
- Watkins, Laurel J., 1946- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 122.
- Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 122
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kiowa language--Syntax.
- Kiowa language.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Mirrors & Microparameters
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What is the nature of syntactic structure? Why do some languages have radically free word order ('nonconfigurationality')? Do parameters vary independently (the micro-view) or can they co-vary en masse (the macro-view)? Mirrors and Microparameters examines these questions by looking beyond the definitional criterion of nonconfigurationality - that arguments may be freely ordered, omitted, and split. Drawing on data from Kiowa, a member of the largely undescribed Kiowa-Tanoan language family, the book reveals that classically nonconfigurational languages can nonetheless exhibit robustly configurational effects. Reconciling the cooccurrence of such freedom with such rigidity has major implications for the Principles and Parameters program. This approach to nonconfigurational languages challenges widespread assumptions of linguistic theory and throws light on the syntactic structures, ordering principles, and nature of parametrization that comprise Universal Grammar.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Nonconfigurationality and polysynthesis
- The clausal spin
- Making mirrors
- Interface properties of clausal domains
- Anti-quantification and the syntax-semantics interface
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-19140-8
- 1-107-40359-6
- 9786612402456
- 0-511-65819-2
- 0-511-65633-5
- 0-511-65548-7
- 0-511-65688-2
- OCLC:
- 609850256
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