Verb Movement

By: No Information Available

Write A Review

Paperback | 30 May 1994

At a Glance

Paperback
404 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
22.8 x 15.0 x 2.6

Paperback

RRP $75.95

$71.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $17.94 with

Ships in 15 to 25 business days

Work on the movement of phrasal categories has been a central element of syntactic theorizing since the earliest work on generative grammar. Work on the movement of lexical elements, heads, however, has been much less central until recent years. Chomsky''s Empty Category Principle, requiring empty elements to be properly governed and requiring certain movement traces to act as proper governors, stimulated research on the properties of heads and how they behave with respect to movement operations. This in turn led to Travis'' Head Movement Constraint and Baker''s work on incorporation, and to Pollock''s influential splitting of INFL (and thus the successive movement of finite verbs to their surface position). Parallel to these theoretical concerns, much attention has been focused on the description of verb-second languages and on the movement operations which place the verb in its ''second'' position. This volume represents the latest work in an important field, from some of its leading researchers, and puts forward many ideas about relevant principles and parameters of Universal Grammar. It will have a significant impact on its field.

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

You Can Find This Book In

Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Psycholinguistics Grammar, Syntax & Morphology Language Learning & Teaching Language Teaching & Learning Material & Coursework Grammar, Vocabulary & Pronunciation

List of contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Verb movement: an introduction	p. 1
Verb positions: evidence from Italian	p. 19
Verb movement and word order in Arabic	p. 41
Comments on the paper by Ouhalla	p. 73
Some similarities and differences between Icelandic and Yiddish	p. 87
Comments on the paper by Santorini	p. 107
Finite verb movement in Scandinavian embedded clauses	p. 117
Comments on the paper by Vikner	p. 149
The Brythonic copula and head raising	p. 163
A reinterpretation of evidence for verb movement in French	p. 189
Two types of head movement in Romance	p. 207
Comments on the paper by Roberts	p. 243
Licensing heads	p. 261
Comments on the paper by Koopman	p. 297
Finiteness and head movement in early child grammars	p. 305
Comments on the paper by Wexler	p. 351
References	p. 363
Index	p. 383
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.

Verb Movement

At a Glance

Paperback

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in Linguistics

Proto

How One Ancient Language Went Global

Emma Memma: Auslan Alphabet

A Guide to the Australian Sign Language Alphabet

Death Writ Large

The unmissable new linguistic mystery in the bestselling series from Britain's favourite wordsmith

Japanese Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary

Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary

Korean Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary

Learn Essential Phrases & Vocabulary | 3,500 Word Two-Way Dictionary | Pull-Out Fast Phrases Card | Travel with Confidence

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Angertainment

How social media outrage ruined everything

The New Dark Ages

The End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate Society

A Word for All Seasons

India Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary

Essential Phrases & Vocabulary | 3,500 Word Two-Way Dictionary | Travel Confidently | Order Food, Book Tickets, Emergency Situations

French Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary

Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary 9th Edition

Language, Literacy and Early Childhood Education

4th Edition

Spanish Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary

Lonely Planet Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary 10th Edition

The Writing Revolution 2.0

A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades

The Little Green Grammar Book

1st Edition

Sri Lanka Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary

Essential Phrases & Vocabulary | 3,500 Word Two-Way Dictionary | Travel Confidently | Order Food & Book Tickets

The Book of Enoch

Bird by Bird

Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Bringing Words to Life

Robust Vocabulary Instruction 2nd Edition

Easy Spanish Step-By-Step

Master High-frequency Grammar for Spanish Proficiency - Fast!

Peer Feedback in Second Language Writing

Learner Cognition and Engagement

Corpus-Based Sociocultural Linguistics and the Representation of Linguistic Diversity on Television

Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Teaching Literature in EFL Classrooms in China

A Recent Historical Ethnography

Our Own Language / Lang a nou

Harnessing the Power of Krey²l and Other Mother Tongues for Education and Liberation / Krey²l ak l²t lang manman se zo

This product is categorised by