Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order

Herausgeber: Biberauer, Theresa; Sheehan, Michelle

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 550
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 975g
• ISBN-13: 9780199684359
• ISBN-10: 0199684359
• Artikelnr.: 38535208

Autorenporträt

Theresa Biberauer is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, where she is also a Fellow of Churchill College, and an Associate Professor Extraordinary at her South African alma mater, Stellenbosch University. Her research interests are principally in theoretical and comparative (synchronic and diachronic) morphosyntax, with Germanic generally and Afrikaans in particular being areas of specific interest. Her past work has focused on word-order variation, (null) subject phenomena, negation, information structure, and the larger question of the nature of parametric variation. Michelle Sheehan is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge specialising in comparative syntax with a particular interest in the Romance languages. She has worked on null arguments, Control, word order variation, extraposition, clausal-nominal parallels and case/alignment. She is co-author of the CUP volume Parametric Variation: Null Subjects in Minimalist Theory and the forthcoming volumes The Final over Final Constraint (MIT Press) and The Philosophy of Universal Grammar (OUP).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Theresa Biberauer and Michelle Sheehan: Introduction
* Part I: On the Nature of Disharmony
* 2: Guglielmo CInque: Word-order Typology: a change of perspective
* 3: Redouane Djamouri, Waltraud Paul, and John Whitman: Postpositions
vs. Prepositions in Mandarin Chinese: the articulation of disharmony
* 4: Federica Cognola: The Mixed OV/VO Syntax of Mòcheno Main Clauses:
on the interaction between high and low left periphery
* Part II: The Role of Prosody
* 5: Joseph E. Emonds: Universal Default Right Headedness and How
Stress Determines Word Order
* 6: Roland Hinterhölzl: (Dis)harmonic Word Order and Phase-based
Restrictions on Phrasing and Spell-out
* 7: Hisao Tokizaki and Yasutomo Kuwana: A Stress-based Theory of
Disharmonic Word Orders
* Part III: The Question of Antisymmetry
* 8: Richard Kayne: Whare Are There no Directionality Parameters?
* 9: Michael Barrie: Antisymmetry and Hixkaryana
* 10: Balkiz Öztürk: Postverbal Constituents in SOV Languages
* 11: Arantzazu Elordieta: On the Relevance of the Head Parameter in a
Mixed OV Language
* Part IV: Novel Alternatives to Antisymmetry
* 12: Mark de Vos: Afrikaans Mixed Adposition Orders as a
PF-linearization Effect
* 13: Takashi Toyoshima: A Traversal parameter at the PF Interface:
graph-theoretical linearization of bare phrase structure
* Part V: The Final-over-Final Constraint
* 14: John A. Hawkins: Disharmonic Word Orders From a Processing
Efficiency Perspective
* 15: Brian Hok-Shing Chan: Sentence-final Particles, Complementizers,
Antisymmetry, and the Final-over-Final Constraint
* 16: Michelle Sheehan: Explaining the Final-over-Final Constraint:
formal and functional approaches
* References
* Index