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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780992103321

Autore

Gerdts Donna B

Titolo

Hypothesis A / Hypothesis B [[electronic resource] ] : Linguistic Explorations in Honor of David M. Perlmutter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : The MIT Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-54178-1

9786612541780

0-262-25880-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (534 p.)

Collana

Current Studies in Linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

MooreJohn C

PolinskyMaria

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Electronic books. -- local

Language and languages

Linguistics

Philology & Linguistics

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Preface; My Path in Linguistics; 1 Depictives and Serialization in Tzotzil; 2 Prolegomenon to Any Future Typology of Impersonal Sentences; 3 Romanian as a Two-Gender Language; 4 1-handed PERSONs and ASL Morphology; 5 Six Arguments for Wh-Movement in Chamorro; 6 On the Existence (and Distribution) of Sentential Subjects; 7 Syntax and Semantics of Polish Emotion Verbs: A Corpus Study; 8 Term Relations and Relational Hierarchies; 9 Constraints on Verb Stem Stacking in Southern Tiwa; 10 Three Doubling Constructions in Halkomelem

11 Origins of Differential Unaccusative/Unergative Case Marking:  Implications for Innateness12 Underlying and Surface Grammatical Relations in Greek consider Sentences; 13 French Inchoatives and the Unaccusativity Hypothesis; 14 On the Analytic Expression of Predicates in Meskwaki; 15 Unpassives of Unaccusatives; 16 Semantic and Syntactic Subcategorization in Seri: Recipients and  Addressees; 17 Impersonals in Irish and Beyond; 18 Does Spatial Make It Special? On



the Grammar of Pointing Signs in American Sign Language; 19 Object-Controlled Restructuring in Spanish

20 Against All Expectations: Encoding Subjects and Objects  in a New Language21 Clitic Placement in Romance: A Phase-Theoretic Approach; 22 Missing Obliques: Some Anomalies in Ojibwe Syntax; 23 Modeling the Mapping from ''Conceptual Structure'' to Syntax; Publications of David M. Perlmutter; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Essays reflecting the influence of the versatile linguist David M. Perlmutter, covering topics from theoretical morphology to sign language phonology.