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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810979903321

Titolo

Studies on universal grammar and typological variation / / edited by Artemis Alexiadou, T. Alan Hall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c1997

ISBN

1-283-23425-4

9786613234254

90-272-8237-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell, , 0166-0829 ; ; v. 13

Altri autori (Persone)

AlexiadouArtemis

HallT. Alan

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general

Typology (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at a conference which was held Mar. 1994, Forschungsschwerpunkt Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Ger.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Artemis Alexiadou & T. Alan Hall --Typological implications of a directionality constraint on projections / Hubert Haider -- Universal grammar and the typology of ergative languages / Anoop Mahajan -- Some properties of ellipsis in coordination / Chris Wilder -- Deriving the parameterisation of the mapping hypothesis / David Adger -- Syntactic dependencies and their properties : weak islands / M. Rita Manzini -- On extraction, argument binding and voice morphology in Malagasy / Paul Law -- Universals and minimalist features : checking in AgrO / Elly van Gelderen -- Genitive subjects and the VSO order / Jamal Ouhalla -- Some properties of clitics : with special reference to modern Greek / Gaberell Drachman.

Sommario/riassunto

The articles of the present volume consist of generative analyses dealing with several current topics of discussion and debate in syntactic theory, such as clitics, word order, scrambling, directionality, movement. The data in the volume are drawn from a number of typologically diverse languages (e.g. Arabic, Berber, Dutch, Gaelic, Greek, Malagasy).