The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads
The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads

Author: Hilda J Koopman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1134718233

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Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as: * interpretation and distribution of pronouns * ECP effects * specifiers and phrase structure * the role and functioning of head movement * the architecture of grammar Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch.

The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads
The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads

Author: Hilda J Koopman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1134718241

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Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as: * interpretation and distribution of pronouns * ECP effects * specifiers and phrase structure * the role and functioning of head movement * the architecture of grammar Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch.

An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory
An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory

Author: Dominique Sportiche

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-09-30

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 1118470478

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An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory offers beginning students a comprehensive overview of and introduction to our current understanding of the rules and principles that govern the syntax of natural languages. Includes numerous pedagogical features such as 'practice' boxes and sidebars, designed to facilitate understanding of both the 'hows' and the 'whys' of sentence structure Guides readers through syntactic and morphological structures in a progressive manner Takes the mystery out of one of the most crucial aspects of the workings of language – the principles and processes behind the structure of sentences Ideal for students with minimal knowledge of current syntactic research, it progresses in theoretical difficulty from basic ideas and theories to more complex and advanced, up to date concepts in syntactic theory

Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English
Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English

Author: Andrew Radford

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-07-10

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9780521477079

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Andrew Radford's textbook is written for students with little or no background in syntax, and introduces them to key concepts of Chomsky's minimalist programme (e.g. merger and movement, checking, economy and greed, split VPs, agreement projections), as well as providing detailed analysis of the syntax of a range of different construction types (e.g. interrogatives, negatives, passives, unaccusatives, complement clauses). Illustrative material is drawn from varieties of English (Standard English, Belfast English, Shakespearean English, Jamaican Creole and Child English). There is a substantial glossary and an extensive integral workbook section at the end of each chapter with helpful hints and model answers, which aim to get students to analyse phrases and sentences for themselves within a minimalist framework.

The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

Author: Andrew Carnie Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of Arizona

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000-05-31

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0195344014

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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.

The Limits of Syntax
The Limits of Syntax

Author: Peter Culicover

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-01-13

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 9004373160

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Contains a collection of essays which explore the ways in which greater incorporation of nonsyntactic explanations into linguistic research may deepen the understanding of problematic linguistic phenomena and, at the same time, strengthen syntactic research. It also addresses the status of syntactic constraints.

Towards an Elegant Syntax
Towards an Elegant Syntax

Author: Michael Brody

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-10-24

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1134423543

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This collection of essays, written between 1980 and 2001, places the search for theoretical elegance at centre stage. and makes available important and some less easily accessible publications with new introductory material.

The Morphosyntax of Complement-head Sequences
The Morphosyntax of Complement-head Sequences

Author: Enoch Oladé Aboh

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780195159905

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This is the first book on the syntax of the Niger-Conger language family, which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Aboh, who is a native speaker of one of the languages (Gungbe) discussed, analyzes different aspects of the syntax of the "Kwa" language group. Aboh also suggests how grammatical pictures for these languages can shed some light on Universal Grammar in general.