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Theoretical Approaches to Universals (Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today)

By Artemis Alexiadou

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
9789027227706, 9780585462493, 9781588111913, 9027227705, 1588111911
Open Library ID
OL12324347M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1526115 bytes)
Pages
208\328
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Типология и сопост

Description

This volume has its origin in the GLOW conference on Universals hosted in Berlin in March 1999. The papers are concerned both with formal as well as with substantive universals. All the contributions attempt to identify universal properties of the language faculty, as well as the source of cross-linguistic variation. They cover a wide range of empirical phenomena across languages such as locality, deletion, verb classes, XP-split constructions, Quantifier Raising, the EPP, and the Person Case Constraint etc. Some of the articles pay particular attention to the organization of the grammar, the type of operations that are effective, the role of features in determining variation, and primitive notions of phrase-structure (c-command, Agree etc.). Others show how structural differences capture semantic and morphological differences within a language and across languages, and how these are the ultimate source of linguistic variation. The book is of primary interest to researchers and students in syntactic theory, comparative syntax, and linguistic variation.

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