Emily Manetta

Rarely Used Structures and Lesser-Studied Languages (eBook, PDF)

Insights from the Margins

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates a set of marginal syntactic structures which have been singularly influential in the development of generative theory, spotlighting lesser-studied languages of the Indic family while emphasizing implications for linguistic theory more broadly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000692839
• Artikelnr.: 57595890

Autorenporträt

Emily Manetta is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Vermont, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Marginality, Two Ways 2. Parasitc Gaps Redux: PGs in
Hindi-Urdu and Kashmiri 3. 'Won't You Please Leave?': Marginal Polar
Questions in Kashmiri 4. Resumptive Pronouns in Romani Relatives 5. When,
How, and Why: Multiple wh- Questions and Sluicing in Kashmiri 6. Reading
Carefully: Adverbs and Negation Under Ellipsis 7. Conclusion: Where Many
Roads Lead