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The Nominal Structure In Slavic And Beyond

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 Focuses on the discussion of whether the DP hypothesis applies universally or not. Drawing on evidence from many other languages, Greek, East Asian, and Basque among them, this book includes important implications for answering fundamental questions about the nature of definiteness and quantification.
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Strengthening The Pro Hypothesis

by Lisa A. Reed

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 Examines paradigms erroneously assumed to favor PRO analyses over Movement and implicit argument accounts. This book offers novel data amenable to analysis only within a PRO approach - but one radically different from its predecessors in form and interpretation.
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Aspect And Valency In Nominals

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 This book contributes to the recent theoretical developments in the area of mutual interactions of valency and aspect, as expressed in different types of verb-related nominal structures (nominalizations and synthetic compounds).
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The Impact Of Pronominal Form On Interpretation

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 The interplay between the interpretation of pronouns (bound/referential) and their form (null/overt) is still ill-understood. This volume has a cross-linguistic orientation with in-depth investigations of more than 10 different languages.
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A Movement Theory Of Anaphora

by Jun Abe

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 Under the tenet shared by Hornstein and Kayne that rules of construal need to be recaptured by the operation Move, this book aims to construct a movement theory of anaphora according to which anaphoric relations are established through movement of pro.
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The Syllable And Stress - Studies In Honor Of James W. Harris

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 Features notable scholars who honor James W Harris for his contributions to Romance phonology. Inscribed within generative grammar, this book includes studies that seek to explain various phonological processes, structured around glides, aspects of onsets/codas as well as stress and weight.
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Parenthesis And Ellipsis - Cross-Linguistic And Theoretical Perspectives

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 Presents a cross-section of research addressing the interaction of two prominent areas in linguistic theory: parenthesis and ellipsis. Its contributions address various theoretical questions raised by 'incomplete' parenthetical constituents, covering a diverse empirical domain and various subfields of linguistics.
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Identity Relations In Grammar

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 Brings together research from a broad scale of domains of grammar that have a bearing on the role that identity plays in the structure of grammatical representations and principles.
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Between Phonology And Phonetics - Polish Voicing

by Eugeniusz Cyran

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 For decades, the voicing system of Polish has been at the center of a heated theoretical debate concerning laryngeal phonology as it features a number of phenomena, such as Final Obstruent Devoicing, Regressive Voice Assimilation, Progressive Voice Assimilation. This book deals with this topic.
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How Categorical Are Categories? - New Approaches To The Old Questions Of Noun, Verb, And Adjective

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 This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditional views from the modern theoretical and experimental perspective. Its focus is on the noun-verb, noun-adjective distinctions and categories occupying
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Representing Structure In Phonology And Syntax

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 "The present volume grew out of a Workshop entitled "The Representation of Structure in Grammar" which was held at the Annesso Cartesiano of Villa Salmi in Arezzo, Italy, on July 1-3 2011."
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Phases - Developing The Framework

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 This book contains a series of essays that explore the foundations, developments, and goals of Phase Theory. This book aims to address these questions and sharpen our understanding about Phase Theory and the nature of the Faculty of Language.
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Lenition And Fortition

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 Presents a collection of articles which aims at providing an overall treatment of the question of Lenition/Fortition in its many aspects: historical, typological, synchronic, diachronic, empirical and theoretical. This book deals with Lenition in selected language families. It provides formal accounts of Lenition/Fortition.
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On Pied-Piping - Wh-Movement And Beyond

by Fabian Heck

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 Pied-piping, the phenomenon that wh-movement may target categories not marked with the feature (wh), has generally been considered idiosyncratic and pathological. This book argues that this assessment is not correct. It presents a compilation of crosslinguistic generalizations on pied-piping and a theory that derives them.
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Alternatives To Cartography

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 Contains proposals that discuss problems for standard cartographic theory as well as alternatives. This book presents an overview of the position taken by a substantial number of researchers in the field on what is presumably one of the most hotly debated and controversial issues in generative grammar.
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Derivations And Evaluations - Object Shift In The Germanic Languages

by Hans Broekhuis

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 Shows that Scandinavian object shift and so-called A-scrambling in the continental Germanic languages are the same. This study intends to provide an account of the variation that we find with respect to this phenomenon by combining certain aspects of the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory.
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Prosodic Phonology - With A New Foreword

by Irene Vogel e Marina Nespor

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 Introduces various prosodic domains (syllable, foot, word, clitic group, phonological phrase, intonational phrase and utterance) and comments on the evidence in their favor from numerous languages. This book contains a chapter on the phonology of poetic meter, and a chapter on the experimental testing of the role of the prosodic constituents.
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Prosodic Phonology - With A New Foreword

by Irene Vogel e Marina Nespor

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 Introduces various prosodic domains (syllable, foot, word, clitic group, phonological phrase, intonational phrase and utterance) and comments on the evidence in their favor from numerous languages. This book contains a chapter on the phonology of poetic meter, and a chapter on the experimental testing of the role of the prosodic constituents.
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Freedom Of Analysis?

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 Aims to draw together papers that argue for a focus on the role of hard constraints on phonological representations as well as the processes that operate on them. Taking Optimality Theory as the starting point, this book discusses the question to what degree the Generator function Gen should be given freedom of analysis on three fronts.
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Roots - Linguistics In Search Of Its Evidential Base

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 The focus on the evidential base of linguistics in general, but particularly on syntax, is in to a large degree dependent on technological developments: computers, electronic storage and transmission. These factors have enabled a revolution in the accessibility of digitally stored language.
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The Acquisition Of Finiteness - The Acquisition Of Verbal Inflections And Auxiliaries

by Elma Blom

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 Provides a theoretical and empirical evaluation of a field that has been the focus of generative theories on language acquisition: the acquisition of finiteness and related properties such as root infinitives, verb movement and null subjects. This book contains a critical empirical assessment of the various hypotheses.
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The Syntax Of Tenselessness - Tense/Mood/Aspect-Agreeing Infinitivals

by Anna-Lena Wiklund

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 Serves as an investigation of verb-verb agreement phenomena in Swedish, including pseudocoordinations of the form John started and wrote 'John started writing' and double participles of the form John had been-able written 'John had been able to write'. This book is a contribution to the syntax of infinitivals and agreement in natural language.
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Nietzsche On Time And History

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 Thiscollection of original essays investigates the correlation between Nietzscheâ€™s philosophy of time and his philosophy of history. Nietzscheâ€™s attempt to rethink time affects the task of recording history. While philosophy requires the corrective of history, the latter will have to be improved through a new conception of time.
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Clause Structure And Adjuncts In Austronesian Languages

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 Clause Structure and Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages is a collection of papers devoted to the syntactic analysis of modification and extraction strategies in Austronesian languages.
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