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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798558103321

Titolo

Finiteness matters : on finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages / / edited by Kristin Melum Eide

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 pages)

Collana

Linguistik Aktuell = Linguistics Today, , 0166-0829 ; ; Volume 231

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Finiteness (Linguistics)

Natural language processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / (Kristin Melum Eide) -- Part I: Finiteness: underlying relations: Chapter 2: Finiteness and Pseudofiniteness / (Elizabeth Cowper) -- Chapter 3: The Split T Analysis / (Halldór Ármann Sigurdsson) -- Chapter 4: Universals and Variation: Encoding Anaphoric Dependencies / (Eric Reuland) -- Chapter 5: Finiteness, inflection, and the syntax your morphology can afford /(Kristin Melum Eide) -- Part II: Morphosyntactic exponents of (non-)finiteness: Chapter 6: Agreement is not an essential ingredient of finiteness: Evidence from impersonal sentences in Norwegian dialects and in English / (Tor A. Åfarli) -- Chapter 7: Finite vs. non-finite distinction in Saam ́aka /(Marleen van de Vate & Tonjes Veenstra) -- Chapter 8: Finiteness and response particles in West Flemish / (Liliane Haegeman and Andrew Weir) : Part III: Finiteness in language acquisition / Chapter 9: Word Order and Finiteness in Acquisition: A Study of English and Norwegian Wh-questions / (Marit Westergaard) -- Chapter 10: The influence of phonological factors on the expression of finiteness by children learning Dutch / (Elma Blom and Nada Vasic)-- Chapter 11: Contradictory parameter settings in one mind: A case study of a Mandarin-Norwegian bilingual's acquisition of finiteness and V2 in Norwegian / (Fufen Jin and Kristin Melum Eide).