Language Arts & Disciplines General
The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2000
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780195132229
- Publish Date
- Apr 2000
- List Price
- $200.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780195132236
- Publish Date
- Jun 2000
- List Price
- $90.00
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Description
This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.
About the authors
Contributor Notes
Andrew Carnie is at University of Arizona. Eithne Guilfoyle is at University of Calgary.