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Author Rizzi, Luigi

Title The Structure of CP and IP : the Cartography of Syntactic Structures
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (376 pages)
Series Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax, v.2
Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax, v.2
Contents Contents; Contributors; 1 On the Cartography of Syntactic Structures; 2 Aspects of the Low IP Area; 3 Topic, Focus, and V2: Defining the CP Sublayers; 4 Resumptive Relatives and LF Chains; 5 Toward a Cartography of Subject Positions; 6 Remnant Movement in the Theory of Phases; 7 Complementizer Deletion in Italian; 8 Clitics: Cooccurrence and Mutual Exclusion Patterns; 9 On the Left Periphery of Some Romance Wh-Questions; 10 The C-System in Brythonic Celtic Languages, V2, and the EPP; 11 Enclisis and Proclisis; Subject Index; Language Index; Name Index
Summary The study of syntactic complexity and the identification of the elementary structural units involved have always been a component of research in the field of theoretical syntax. Still, these topics have recently acquired a higher degree of prominence and autonomy, which has led to an expansion in the ways syntacticians conceptualize syntactic representations and their interactions with other research topics. The Structure of CP and IP is the second volume in the Cartography of Syntactic Structures, a subgroup within the Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax series. Funded by the Italian Ministr
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Inflection.
Generative grammar.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Inflection
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780198036159
0198036159
0195159489
9780195159486
0195159497
9780195159493