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Language Arts & Disciplines General

The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

edited by Andrew Carnie & Eithne Guilfoyle

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2000
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780195132229
    Publish Date
    Apr 2000
    List Price
    $200.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780195132236
    Publish Date
    Jun 2000
    List Price
    $90.00

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Description

This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.

About the authors

Contributor Notes

Andrew Carnie is at University of Arizona. Eithne Guilfoyle is at University of Calgary.