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1 online resource (549 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
This title considers whether any generalisations can be made about word order in language. The chapters, written by international scholars, draw on data from several 'disharmonic' and typologically distinct languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Basque, French, English, Hixkaryana (a Cariban language), Khalkha Mongolian, Uyghur Turkic, and Afrikaans. |
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Cover; Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; The Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1: Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Harmony and disharmony from Greenberg to the present; 1.2.1 Greenbergś correlation pairs and the notion of harmony; 1.2.2 Harmony and the Head Parameter; 1.2.3 Disharmony; 1.2.4 Antisymmetry; 1.2.5 Remaining questions; 1.3 Word order and linguistic theory; 1.3.1 Frequency; 1.3.2 On the nature of disharmony; 1.3.3 The connection to prosody; 1.4 The question of Antisymmetry |
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1.4.1 Head-Complement order, movement, and the derivation of OV languages1.4.2 Problems with the LCA; 1.4.3 Novel approaches to disharmonic word order; 1.4.4 The Final-over-Final Constraint; 1.5 Conclusion; Part I: On the Nature of Disharmony; 2: Word-Order Typology: A Change of Perspective; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 A change of perspective; 2.3 The two abstract harmonic orders; 2.3.1 The `head-initial ́type; 2.3.2 The `head-final ́type; 2.3.3 The overarching generalization; 2.4 Deriving the two abstract harmonic types; 2.4.1 The `head-initial ́type; 2.4.2 The `head-final ́type |
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2.5 The movement trigger: a speculation2.6. Deviations from the `ideal ́derivations; 2.6.1 Some attested deviations from the ideal derivation for `head-initial ́languages; 2.6.2 Some attested deviations from the `ideal ́derivation for `head-final ́languages; 2.6.3 Unattested (or rare) deviations from the ideal derivations; 2.7 The apparently anomalous behaviour of particles; 2.8 Conclusions; Appendix; 3: Postpositions vs Prepositions in Mandarin Chinese: The Articulation of Disharmony; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Postpositions and prepositions in Chinese are both adpositions |
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3.2.1 Ban on adposition stranding3.2.2 Distribution of PP; 3.2.2.1 Adjunct PPs; 3.2.2.2 Argument PPs; 3.2.2.3 PPs as subconstituents of DP; 3.2.3 Complements of P; 3.3 The internal structure of pre- and postpositional phrases; 3.4 Chinese disharmony in a harmonic world; 3.5 History; 3.5.1 Syntactic properties of location nouns; 3.5.2 Reanalysis of location nouns as postpositions; 3.5.3 Properties of PostP in Late Han through Middle Chinese (1st c. bc-10th c. ad); 3.6 Conclusion; 4: The Mixed OV/VO Syntax of Mòcheno Main Clauses: On the Interaction between High and Low Left Periphery |
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4.1 Introduction4.2 On the structure of Mòcheno main clauses; 4.2.1 On the syntax of new information focus; 4.2.2 On the syntax of topics; 4.2.2.1 On the syntax of topics in main declaratives; 4.2.2.2 Wh main interrogatives and sentences with a fronted focus; 4.2.3 Partial conclusions; 4.3 Proposed analysis; 4.3.1 On the connection between V2 and OV/VO; 4.3.2 Mòcheno as a V2 language; 4.3.3 On the derivation of main declaratives; 4.3.4 On the derivation of sentences with a fronted operator; 4.3.5 On low adverbs and LowFinP; 4.3.6 On the role of heaviness; 4.3.6.1 Heavy topics |
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| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word order.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word order. |
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Electronic books.
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Biberauer, Theresa.
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Sheehan, Michelle.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Theoretical approaches to disharmonic word order. 0199684359 9780199684359 |
| ISBN |
9780191507311 (electronic book) |
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0191507318 (electronic book) |
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0191764965 |
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9780191764967 |
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9780199684359 |
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0199684359 |
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