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Mirrors and microparameters : = phrase structure beyond free word order /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mirrors and microparameters :/ David Adger, Daniel Harbour and Laurel J. Watkins.
Reminder of title:	phrase structure beyond free word order /
remainder title:	Mirrors & Microparameters
Author:	Adger, David,
other author:	Watkins, Laurel J.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 190 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511657375
ISBN:	9780511657375 (ebook)

Mirrors and microparameters : = phrase structure beyond free word order /
Adger, David,

Mirrors and microparameters :phrase structure beyond free word order /Mirrors & MicroparametersDavid Adger, Daniel Harbour and Laurel J. Watkins. - 1 online resource (xiv, 190 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in linguistics ;122. - Cambridge studies in linguistics ;98..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction -- Nonconfigurationality and polysynthesis -- The clausal spin -- Making mirrors -- Interface properties of clausal domains -- Anti-quantification and the syntax-semantics interface -- Conclusion.

What is the nature of syntactic structure? Why do some languages have radically free word order ('nonconfigurationality')? Do parameters vary independently (the micro-view) or can they co-vary en masse (the macro-view)? Mirrors and Microparameters examines these questions by looking beyond the definitional criterion of nonconfigurationality - that arguments may be freely ordered, omitted, and split. Drawing on data from Kiowa, a member of the largely undescribed Kiowa-Tanoan language family, the book reveals that classically nonconfigurational languages can nonetheless exhibit robustly configurational effects. Reconciling the cooccurrence of such freedom with such rigidity has major implications for the Principles and Parameters program. This approach to nonconfigurational languages challenges widespread assumptions of linguistic theory and throws light on the syntactic structures, ordering principles, and nature of parametrization that comprise Universal Grammar.

ISBN: 9780511657375 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

554985
Grammar, Comparative and general
--Syntax.

LC Class. No.: PM1531 / .A34 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 497/.492

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