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1 online resource |
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Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics ; 75 |
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Oxford linguistics |
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Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 75.
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Oxford linguistics.
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Contrast and representations in syntax: introduction / Bronwyn M. Bjorkman, Daniel Currie Hall -- A feature-geometric approach to verbal inflection in Onodaga / Gabriela Alboiu, Michael Barrie -- Restricted and reversed aspectual contrasts / Andrew Carnie, Sylvia L. R. Schreiner -- Sentience-based event structure: evidence from Blackfoot / Elizabeth Ritter -- Definite expression and degrees of definiteness / Maria Kyriakaki -- Cross-linguistic contrasts in the structure of causatives in clausal nominalizations / Martha McGinnis -- The Tłı̨chǫ syntactic causative and non-nominal CPs / Leslie Saxon -- Against some approaches to long-distance agreement without AGREE / Carson T. Schütze -- Contrast in syntax and contrast in phonology: same difference? / Daniel Currie Hall |
| Summary |
"Syntactic contrasts, the systems of grammatical oppositions that exist within individual languages, are typically formally encoded in terms of features. The nature of syntactic contrast is tied to a fundamental question in generative syntactic theory: What is universal in syntax (and in language more generally), and what is variable? This volume explores the dual role of features, on the one hand defining a set of paradigmatic contrasts, and other the other hand acting as the building blocks of syntactic structures and the drivers of syntactic operations. In both roles, features are increasingly seen as the locus of parametric variation. The identification of parameters with features has opened up new possibilities for exploring connections between the morphological system of a language and its syntax, and suggests a new role for featural contrast in syntactic theory. The papers collected here represent a diversity of topics, perspectives, and concerns, but are united by an interest in morphosyntactic representations, and in the formal encoding of syntactic contrasts"--Publisher's description |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on December 22, 2020) |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Electronic book
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Bjorkman, Bronwyn M., editor.
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Hall, Daniel Currie, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192550194 |
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0192550195 |
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