Richard S. Kayne

Comparisons and Contrasts

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Produktbeschreibung

Comparisons and Contrasts collects eleven of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic differences among languages to probe the properties of the human language faculty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780199732517
• ISBN-10: 0199732515
• Artikelnr.: 31301764

Autorenporträt

Richard Kayne is Silver Professor of Linguistics, New York University

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* 1.: Some Preliminary Comparative Remarks on French and Italian
Definite Articles
* 2.: Several, Few and Many
* 3.: A Note on the Syntax of Numerical Bases
* 4.: On Parameters and on Principles of Pronunciation
* 5.: A Short Note on where vs. place
* 6.: Expletives, Datives, and the Tension between Morphology and
Syntax
* 7.: Some Silent First Person Plurals
* 8.: A Note on Auxiliary Alternations and Silent Causation
* 9.: Antisymmetry and the Lexicon
* 10.: Why Isn't This a Complementizer?
* 11.: Toward an Analysis of French Hyper-Complex Inversion (in
collaboration with Jean-Yves Pollock)
* Bibliography
* Index