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Author Kidwai, Ayesha, 1967-

Title XP-adjunction in universal grammar : scrambling and binding in Hindi-Urdu / Ayesha Kidwai.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 181 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford studies in comparative syntax
Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176) and index.
Contents 1 Issues in the Study of Scrambling; 2 Scrambling: Syntactic Properties; 3 The Structure of the UG Clause; 4 Binding and Coreference in UG; 5 Scrambling, Focus, and Specificity; 6 XP-Adjunction in UG; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Investigating the properties of Hindi-Urdu scrambling, this text analyses it as uniformly a focality-driven XP-adjunction operation. It proposes a theory of binding and co-reference that derives the co-reference effects in scrambled constructions.
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Hindi language -- Syntax.
Hindi language -- Syntax.
Hindi language.
Urdu language -- Syntax.
Urdu language -- Syntax.
Urdu language.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kidwai, Ayesha, 1967- XP-adjunction in universal grammar. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 0195132513 9780195132519 (DLC) 99010145 (OCoLC)40838604
ISBN 9780198030393 (electronic book)
0198030398 (electronic book)
9780195351057 (electronic book)
0195351053 (electronic book)
0195132513
0195132521 (paperback)