Typological Studies: Word Order and Relative Clauses

By Guglielmo Cinque

Book Overview

In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis vis his object; a general cross-linguistic analysis of correlatives; the need to distinguish a sentence-grammar, from a discourse-grammar, type of non-restrictives (with languages differing as to whether they possess both, one, the other, or neither); a selective type of extraction from relative clauses; and a tentative sketch of a more ample work in progress on a unified analysis of externally headed, internally headed, and headless relative clauses.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138923494
• ISBN13: 9781138923492
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"