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

Contributor(s): Cinque, Guglielmo | Kayne, Richard S.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 977 p.) : ill.ISBN: 1423719980 (electronic bk.); 9781423719984 (electronic bk.); 9780195136500 (alk. paper); 0195136500 (alk. paper); 1433700921; 9781433700927; 1280530995; 9781280530999.Subject(s): Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax | Grammar, Comparative and general | Language and languagesGenre/Form: Electronic books DDC classification: 415 Online resources: Access full-text materials at no charge:
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 comparing differences that might otherwise appear unrelated, and has helped to identify the core principles of Universal Grammar. This comprehensive handbook serves two functions. It will provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains of linguistic inquiry; and it will 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. The study of closely-related varieties has proven extremely useful in comparing differences that might otherwise appear unrelated, and has helped to identify the core principles of Universal Grammar. This comprehensive handbook serves two functions. It will provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains of linguistic inquiry; and it will 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.

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