The Oxford handbook of comparative syntax / / edited by Guglielmo Cinque, Richard S. Kayne

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xii, 977 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
• Altri autori: CinqueGuglielmo KayneRichard S
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Some Notes on Comparative Syntax, with Special Reference to English and French -- 2. On the Grammatical Basis of Language Development: A Case Study -- 3. Comparative Syntax and Language Disorders -- 4. Object Shift, Verb Movement, and Verb Reduplication -- 5. Finiteness and Negation in Dravidian -- 6. On Some Descriptive Generalizations in Romance -- 7. Classifiers in Four Varieties of Chinese -- 8. Morphology and Word Order in "Creolization" and Beyond -- 9. The Slavic Languages -- 10. The Scandinavian Languages -- 11. Noun Class, Gender, and the Lexicon-Syntax-Morphology Interfaces: A Comparative Study of Niger-Congo and Romance Languages -- 12. Agreement and Its Placement in Turkic Nonsubject Relative Clauses -- 13. Qu'est-ce-que (qu)-est-ce que? A Case Study in Comparative Romance Interrogative Syntax -- 14. Clitic Placement, Grammaticalization, and Reanalysis in Berber -- 15. Clitic Placement in Western Iberian: A Minimalist View -- 16. Comparative Athapaskan Syntax: Arguments and Projections -- 17. Number Agreement Variation in Catalan Dialects -- 18. Classifiers and DP Structure in Southeast Asia -- 19. The Celtic Languages -- 20. Preverbal Elements in Korean and Japanese -- 21. Continental West-Germanic Languages -- Language Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. This work provides an introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains of linguistic inquiry. It is useful for scholars and students in formal linguistics.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Oxford handbook of comparative syntax
• ISBN: 1-4337-0092-1; 1-4237-1998-0; 1-280-53099-5; 9781423719980; 9786610530991; 0-19-972274-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910138956703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics