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The Syntax of the verb initial languages
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The Syntax of the verb initial languages

Author: Andrew Carnie; Eithne Guilfoyle
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Series: Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This volume contains 12 chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, and  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Andrew Carnie; Eithne Guilfoyle
ISBN: 019513222X 9780195132229 0195132238 9780195132236
OCLC Number: 42022261
Description: 256 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Celtic initials / Randall Hendrick --
VSO order as raising out of IP? Some evidence from Old Irish / Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, and Elizabeth Pyatt --
Tense and N-features in Irish / Eithne Guilfoyle --
VSO and left-conjunct agreement : biblical Hebrew vs. modern Hebrew / Edit Doron --
VSO and VOS : aspects of Niuean word order / Diane Massam --
V-initial languages : X or XP movement and adverbial placement / Andrea Rackowski and Lisa Travis --
VP remnant movement and VSO in Quiaviní Zapotec / Felicia Lee --
Locus operandi / Ray Freeze and Carol Georgopoulos --
Prosodic conditions on anaphora and clitics in Jakaltek / Judith Aissen --
Animacy hierarchies and sentence processing / Seth Minkoff --
Predicate raising in Lummi, Straits Salish / Eloise Jelinek.
Series Title: Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
Responsibility: edited by Andrew Carnie and Eithne Guilfoyle.
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