The Final-Over-Final Condition: A Syntactic Universal

by Ian Roberts, Anders Holmberg, Michelle Sheehan, et al.

An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages.

This book presents evidence for a universal word order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and discusses the theoretical implications of this phenomenon. FOFC is a syntactic condition that disallows structures where a head-initial phrase is contained in a head-final phrase in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262534169
• ISBN13: 9780262534161
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher