Syntax, Comparative Grammar

Verb First: On the Syntax Verb Initial Languages

Name: Verb First: On the Syntax Verb Initial Languages
Author: Andrew Carnie
ISBN: 9789027227973

by Andrew Carnie (Editor), Heidi Harley (Editor), Sheila Ann Dooley-Collberg (Editor)

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Overview

This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of these languages. Major themes in the volume include the role of syntactic category in languages with verb initial order; the different mechanisms of deriving V-initial order; and the universal correlates of the order. This book should be of interest to scholars who work on theoretical approaches to word order derivation, typologists, and those who work on the particular grammars of Celtic, Zapotec, Mixtec, Polynesian, Austronesian, Mayan, Salish, Aboriginal, and Nilotic languages.