Rarely Used Structures and Lesser-Studied Languages: Insights from the Margins

by Emily Manetta

Book Overview

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. After first defining what constitutes a marginal syntactic structure, this book then undertakes a micro-comparative approach to the rigorous exploration of fundamental properties of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367784076
• ISBN13: 9780367784072
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"