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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451139703321

Autore

Kidwai Ayesha <1967->

Titolo

XP-adjunction in universal grammar : scrambling and binding in Hindi-Urdu / / Ayesha Kidwai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

1-280-96567-3

9786610965670

0-19-803039-8

0-19-535105-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Hindi language - Syntax

Urdu language - Syntax

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Issues in the Study of Scrambling; 2 Scrambling: Syntactic Properties; 3 The Structure of the UG Clause; 4 Binding and Coreference in UG; 5 Scrambling, Focus, and Specificity; 6 XP-Adjunction in UG; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Investigating the properties of Hindi-Urdu scrambling, this text analyses it as uniformly a focality-driven XP-adjunction operation. It proposes a theory of binding and co-reference that derives the co-reference effects in scrambled constructions.