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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820666903321

Autore

Kidwai Ayesha <1967->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772282-2

1-280-96567-3

9786610965670

0-19-803039-8

0-19-535105-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 pages)

Collana

Oxford studies in comparative syntax.

Oxford scholarship online.

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Hindi language - Grammar, Generative

Hindi language - Syntax

Urdu language - Grammar, Generative

Urdu language - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2000.

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

This text investigates the properties of Hindi-Urdu scrambling to show that it must be analyzed as uniformly a focality-driven XP-adjunction operation. It will be of interest to both students and specialists in Hindi/Urdu syntax.