The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

by Andrew Carnie

Book Overview

This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019513222X
• ISBN13: 9780195132229
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"