Synopses & Reviews
Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. The study of closely-related varieties has proven extremely useful in comparing differences that might otherwise appear unrealted, and has helped to identify the core principles of Universal Grammar. This comprehensive handbook serves two functions. It will provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains of linguistic inquiry; and it will provide a systematic selection of the best comparative work being done today on those language groups and families where substantial progress has been achieved. With top-notch editors and contributors from around the world, this volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students in formal linguistics.
Review
"All the papers in this volume are of a very high standard...most [of the] papers present novel data and offer new insights leadin g to novel analyses."--LinguistList
About the Author
Guglielmo Cinque is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Venice. Richard S. Kayne is Professor of Linguistics at New York University and editor of the Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax series.
Table of Contents
1. Some Notes on Comparative Syntax, with Special Reference to English and French, Richard S. Kayne
2. On the Grammatical Basis of Language Development: A Case Study, Luigi Rizzi
3. Comparative Syntax and Language Disorders, Arhonto Terzi
4. Object Shift, Verb Movement, and Verb Reduplication, Enoch Olade Aboh
5. Finiteness and Negation in Dravidian, R. Amritavalli and K. A. Jayaseelan
6. On Some Descriptive Generalizations in Romance, Paola Beninca and Cecilia Poletto
7. Classifiers in Four Varieties of Chinese, Lisa L.-S. Cheng and Rint Sybesma
8. Morphology and Word Order in "Creolization" and Beyond, Michel DeGraff
9. The Slavic Languages, Steven Franks
10. The Scandanavian Languages, Anders Holmberg and Christer Platzack
11. Noun Class, Gender, and the Lexicon-Syntax-Morphology Interfaces: A Comparative Study of Niger-Congo and Romance Languages, Alain Kihm
12. Agreement and Its Placement in Turkic Nonsubject Relative Clauses, Jaklin Kornfilt
13. Qu'est-ce-que (qu)-est-ce que? A Case Study in Comparative Romance Interrogative Syntax, Nicola Munaro and Jean-Yves Pollock
14. Clitic Placement, Grammaticalization, and Reanalysis in Berber, Jamal Ouhalla
15. Clitic Placement in Western Iberian: A Minimalist View, Eduardo P. Raposo and Juan Uriagereka
16. Comparative Athapaskan Syntax: Arguments and Projections, Keren Rice and Leslie Saxon
17. Number Agreement Variation in Catalan Dialects, Gemma Rigau
18. Classifiers and DP Structure in Southeast Asia, Andrew Simpson
19. The Celtic Languages, Maggie Tallerman
20. Preverbal Elements in Korean and Japanese, John Whitman
21. Continental West-Germanic Languages, Jan-Wouter Zwart
Language Index
Name Index
Subject Index