Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B : linguistic explorations in honor of David M. Perlmutter / / Donna B. Gerdts, John C. Moore, and Maria Polinsky, editors

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (534 p.)
• Disciplina: 410
• Soggetto topico: Linguistics; Language and languages
• Altri autori: PerlmutterDavid M GerdtsDonna B MooreJohn C. <1955-> PolinskyMaria
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Hypothesis A
• ISBN: 1-282-54178-1; 9786612541780; 0-262-25880-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829012003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Current studies in linguistics series ; ; 49.