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Studies On Interrogative And Relative Syntax In French And Romance

by Jean-Yves Pollock

~~91,41€~~ 82,27€ 10% OFF

 This book provides a detailed study of the unusually large array of interrogative and relative grammars mastered by French speakers. Each of its eight chapters is devoted to one aspect of their interrogative competence and to the closely related syntax of their relative, exclamative, and cleft constructions. Jean-Yves Pollock draws on the rich traditional and generative literature devoted to this type of construction and makes use of all the theoretical tools of modern generative grammar, including the displacement known as remnant movement and the highly articulated high and low left peripheries of the clause developed within the cartographic approach. French speakers' competence in these complex areas often seems to set them apart from speakers of other Romance languages: this book hence adopts a comparative approach to isolate those features of French that are responsible for the unique properties exhibited by the constructions under investigation. A greater understanding of French questions, clefts, free relatives, and exclamatives is achieved through comparison with the equivalent constructions in English and Romance - more specifically Italian and Northern Italian dialects - and those French constructions equally shed light on the syntax of English, Italian, and Northern Italian dialects.
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Rich Descriptions And Simple Explanations In Morphosyntax And Language Acquisition

~~119,25€~~ 107,33€ 10% OFF

 This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters explore the debate between Cartography and Minimalism: on the one hand, the need for detailed and articulated descriptions of the clausal architecture, and on the other, the endeavor to reduce the theoretical apparatus to fundamental computational mechanisms. The first part of the book begins with a reflection on the goals of modern linguistic theory, and investigates the principles of human language, in an effort to subsume the regularities of particular grammars under a small set of morphosyntactic and semantic primitives. The second part examines the clausal structure - both the CP-layer and the IP-layer - from a comparative perspective, which directly relates to the fundamental questions of universality, linguistic variation, and learnability addressed in the first part of the book. With chapters written by world-leading linguists who analyze a wide range of old and new phenomena, the volume will be a valuable resource for researchers and students interested in theoretical linguistics and language development.
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Studies On Interrogative And Relative Syntax In French And Romance

by Jean-Yves (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University Of Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallee) Pollock

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 This book provides a detailed study of the unusually large array of interrogative and relative grammars mastered by French speakers. Jean-Yves Pollock draws on the theoretical tools of generative grammar and compares the relevant French constructions with their counterparts in English, Italian, and Northern Italian dialects.
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Comparative Syntax Of Korean And Japanese

by Sungdai Cho e Yutaka Sato

~~90,09€~~ 81,08€ 10% OFF

 This book provides a detailed survey of Korean and Japanese syntax from a comparative perspective, based within a generative framework. Yukata Sato and Sungdai Cho demonstrate that while the two languages exhibit remarkably similar morphosyntactic features, they behave differently in specific types of construction.
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Rich Descriptions And Simple Explanations In Morphosyntax And Language Acquisition

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 This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters analyze a wide range of phenomena, and relate them to fundamental questions of universality, linguistic variation, and learnability.
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Smuggling In Syntax

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 One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. This book investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling, in which displacement occurs in two steps thus allowing for otherwise inaccessible movement operations.
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Parameters Of Predicate Fronting

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 Many of the world''s languages permit or require clause-initial positioning of the primary predicate, potentially alongside some or all of its dependents. While such predicate fronting (where "fronting" may or may not involve movement) is a widespread phenomenon, it is also subject to intricate and largely unexplained variation. In Parameters of Predicate Fronting, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and Dennis Ott bring together leaders in the field of comparative syntax to explore the empirical manifestations and theoretical modelling of predicate fronting across languages. There exists by now a rich literature on predicate fronting, but few attempts have been made at synthesizing the resulting empirical observations and theoretical implementations. While individual phenomena have been described in some detail, we are currently far from a complete understanding of the uniformity and variation underlying the wider cross-linguistic picture. This volume takes steps towards this goal by showcasing the state of the art in research on predicate fronting and the parameters governing its realization in a range of diverse languages. Covering topics like prosody, VP-fronting, and predicate doubling across a wide arrange of languages, including English, German, Malagasy, Niuean, Ch''ol, Asante, Twi, Limbum, Krachi, Hebrew, and multiple sign languages, this collection enriches our understanding of the predicate fronting phenomenon.
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Handbook Of Slavic Clitics

by Steven Franks e Tracy Holloway King

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 This volume brings together the facts about clitics in the Slavic languages, where they have become a focal points of research. The authors draw relevant generalizations across the Slavic languages and highlight the importance of these phenomena for linguistic theory.
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Unified Theory Of Polarity Sensitivity - Comparative Syntax Of Arabic

by Ahmad Alqassas

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 Polarity sensitivity is a ubiquitous phenomenon involving expressions such as anybody, nobody, ever, never, somebody and their counterparts in other languages. These expressions belong to different classes such as negative and positive polarity, negative concord, and negative indefinites. In this book, Ahmad Alqassas proposes a unified approach to the study of this phenomenon that relies on examining the interaction between the various types of polarity sensitivity, with a particular focus on Arabic. Alqassas shows that treating this interaction is fundamental for scrutinizing their licensing conditions. Alqassas draws on data from Standard Arabic and the major regional dialects represented by Jordanian, Egyptian, Moroccan, and Qatari. Through the (micro)comparative approach, Alqassas explains the distributional contrasts with a minimal set of universal syntactic operations such as Merge, Move, and Agree. He also considers a fine-grained inventory of negative formal features for polarity items and their licensors. These simple features paint a complex landscape of polarity and lead to important conclusions about syntactic computation. By engaging with the rich but under-studied landscape of Arabic polarity sensitivity, this book provides a new perspective on the syntax-semantic interface and develops a unified syntactic analysis for polarity sensitivity. These contributions have important implications for the study of Arabic and for syntactic theory more generally.
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Smuggling In Syntax

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. This book investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling, in which displacement occurs in two steps thus allowing for otherwise inaccessible movement operations.
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Anti-Contiguity - A Theory Of Wh- Prosody

by Jason Kandybowicz

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 Through original and highly detailed fieldwork on five under-studied languages of West Africa, Jason Kandybowicz develops a novel theory of the interaction between the distribution of interrogative expressions and the sound system of a language. The book also considers data from thirteen additional typologically diverse languages to demonstrate the theory's reach and extendibility.
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Variation In P - Comparative Approaches To Adpositional Phrases

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 Variation in P collects papers from generative syntacticians working on aspects of prepositional grammar, studying prepositional syntax not only within prepositional phrases but also in interaction with clausal syntax. The papers provide new comparative data by considering a wide range of languages.
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Variation In P - Comparative Approaches To Adpositional Phrases

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 Variation in P collects papers from generative syntacticians working on aspects of prepositional grammar, studying prepositional syntax not only within prepositional phrases but also in interaction with clausal syntax. The papers provide new comparative data by considering a wide range of languages.
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Locality And Logophoricity - A Theory Of Exempt Anaphora

by Isabelle Charnavel

62,26€ + 10% CARD

 In many languages, reflexives like English herself exhibit a puzzling dual behavior: they must either obey structural constraints or perspective-related discourse constraints. Based on detailed examination of crosslinguistic data, this book proposes a unified solution to this syntax-semantics issue, which has consequences for the theories of binding and logophoricity.
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Locality And Logophoricity - A Theory Of Exempt Anaphora

by Isabelle Charnavel

62,26€ + 10% CARD

 In many languages, reflexives like English herself exhibit a puzzling dual behavior: they must either obey structural constraints or perspective-related discourse constraints. Based on detailed examination of crosslinguistic data, this book proposes a unified solution to this syntax-semantics issue, which has consequences for the theories of binding and logophoricity.
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Syntactic Variation Of Spanish Dialects

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 This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects, opening new avenues of theoretical and empirical discussion. The volume focuses on both European and American varieties of Spanish, addressing several syntactic constructions and phenomena.
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Syntactic Variation Of Spanish Dialects

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 This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects, opening new avenues of theoretical and empirical discussion. The volume focuses on both European and American varieties of Spanish, addressing several syntactic constructions and phenomena.
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Dravidian Syntax And Universal Grammar

by K.A. Jayaseelan e R. Amritavalli

112,61€ + 10% CARD

 This volume comprises twenty eight papers on Dravidian by K.A. Jayaseelan and R. Amritavalli. These papers cover the entire area of Dravidian syntax, and they are simultaneously wide-ranging and targeted in their analyses. No future discussion of Dravidian languages is possible without taking into account the analyses set forth in these pages.
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Dravidian Syntax And Universal Grammar

by K.A. Jayaseelan e R. Amritavalli

112,61€ + 10% CARD

 This volume comprises twenty eight papers on Dravidian by K.A. Jayaseelan and R. Amritavalli. These papers cover the entire area of Dravidian syntax, and they are simultaneously wide-ranging and targeted in their analyses. No future discussion of Dravidian languages is possible without taking into account the analyses set forth in these pages.
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Nominal Arguments And Language Variation

by Li Julie Jiang

49,01€ + 10% CARD

 Nominal Arguments in Language Variation investigates nominal arguments in classifier languages, refuting the long-held claim that classifier languages do not have overt article determiners. Li Julie Jiang brings the typologically unique Nuosu Yi, a classifier language that has an overt definite determiner (D), to the forefront of the theoretical investigation. By comparing nominal arguments in Nuosu Yi to those in Mandarin, a well-studied classifier language that has no overt evidence of an article determiner, Jiang provides new accounts of variation among classifier languages and extends the parameters to argument formation in general. In addition to paying particular attention to these two classifier languages, the discussion of nominal arguments also covers a wider range of classifier languages and number marking languages from Romance, Germanic, and Slavic to Hindi.Using a broad cross-linguistic perspective and detailed empirical analysis, Nominal Arguments in Language Variation is an important contribution to research on classifier languages and the fields of theoretical syntax, semantics, language variation, and linguistic typology.
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Morphosyntax Of Complement-Head Sequences - Clause Structure And Word Order Patterns In Kwa

by Enoch Olade Aboh

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 This is the first book on the syntax of the Niger-Congo 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, analyses 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.
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Subject Inversion In Romance And The Theory Of Universal Grammar

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 The Romance Languages document remarkable variations in subject word order in different constructions, and have various restrictions in their occurrence. This volume does not attempt to create a consensus, but tries to represent and bring into dialogue the different sides of the debate.
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Higher Functional Field - Evidence From Northern Italian Dialects

by Cecilia Poletto

38,41€ + 10% CARD

 This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern Italian dialects. The area contains dialects that are different in most ways yet homogenous syntactically, making it ideal for this type of analysis.
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Xp-Adjunction In Universal Grammar - Scrambling And Binding In Hindi-Urdu

by Ayesha Kidwai

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 One of the most hotly debated phenomena in natural language is that of leftward argument scrambling. This work investigates the properties of Hindi-Urdu scrambling aiming to show that it must be analyzed as uniformly a focality-driven XP-adjunction operation.
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