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Record Nr.

UNINA9910251394503321

Autore

Sheehan Michelle

Titolo

Order and structure in syntax II : : Subjecthood and argument structure / / Laura R. Bailey, Michelle Sheehan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Language Science Press, 2017

Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , 2017

ISBN

3-96110-029-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Open Generative Syntax

Soggetti

Lingüística

Sintaxis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language.         This book is complemented by Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure