| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 977 pages) |
| Contents |
Some notes on comparative syntax, with special reference to English and French / Richard S. Kayne -- On the grammatical basis of language development : a case study / Luigi Rizzi -- Comparative syntax and language disorders / Arhonto Terzi -- Ojbect shift, verb movement, and verb reduplication / Enoch Oladé Aboh -- Finiteness and negation in Dravidian / R. Amritavalli, K.A. Jayaseelan -- On some descriptive generalizations in Romance / Paola Benincà, Cecilia Poletto -- Classifiers in four varieties of Chinese / Lisa L.-S. Cheng, Rint Sybesma -- Morphology and word order in "creolization" and beyond / Michel DeGraff -- The Slavic languages / Steven Franks -- The Scandinavian languages / Anders Holmberg, Christer Platzack -- Noun class, gender, and the lexicon-syntax-morphology interfaces : a comparative study of Niger-Congo and Romance languages / Alain Kihm -- Agreement and its placement in Turkic nonsubject relative clauses / Jaklin Kornfilt -- Qu'est-ce-que (qu)-est-ce que? A case study in comparative Romance interrogative syntax / Nicola Munaro, Jean-Yves Pollock -- Clitic placement, grammaticalization, and reanalysis in Berber / Jamal Ouhalla -- Clitic placement in Western Iberian : a minimalist view / Eduardo P. Raposo, Juan Uriagereka -- Comparative Athapaskan syntax : arguments and projections / Keren Rice, Leslie Saxon -- Number agreement variation in Catalan dialects / Gemma Rigau -- Classifiers and DP structure in Southeast Asia / Andrew Simpson -- The Celtic languages / Maggie Tallerman -- Preverbal elements in Korean and Japanese / John Whitman -- Continental West-Germanic languages / Jan-Wouter Zwart |
| Summary |
Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. The study of closely-related varieties has proven extremely useful in illuminating relations between cross-linguistic syntactic differences that might otherwise appear unrelated, and has helped to identify the core principles of Universal Grammar. Comparative studies have grown to the point where a reference work is needed to comprehensively explain the state of the field and makes its results more widely known, and this handbook fulfills that need. Its twenty-one commissioned chapters serve two functions: they provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains on linguistic inquiry; and they also provide a systematic selection of the best comparative work being done today on those language groups and families where substantial progress has been achieved. With top-notch editors and contributors from around the world, this volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students in formal linguistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Vergelijkende grammatica.
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Syntaxis.
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| Genre/Form |
Handboeken (vorm)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cinque, Guglielmo, editor.
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Kayne, Richard S., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780199940226 |
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0199940223 |
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