1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910251394903321

Autore

Sheehan Michelle

Titolo

Order and structure in syntax I : word order and syntactic structure / / edited by Laura R. Bailey, Michelle Sheehan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Language Science Press, 2017

Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

3-96110-027-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 395 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)

Collana

Open generative syntax ; ; 1

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Grammar, Comparative and general - Word order

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.