The Syntax-Information Structure Interface: Clausal Word Order and the Left Periphery in Galician 9781614512059, 9781614512714

It is quite remarkable that, after over a half-century of research in generative grammar, there is still uncertainty and

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The Syntax-Information Structure Interface: Clausal Word Order and the Left Periphery in Galician
9781614512059, 9781614512714

It is quite remarkable that, after over a half-century of research in generative grammar, there is still uncertainty and

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The left periphery of clausal structures has been a prominent topic of research in generative linguistics during the las

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When can word order be considered expressive? And what we do mean by "expressiveness"? This work, based upon a

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The volume presents new approaches to explaining word order variation and change in the Germanic languages and thus rela

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Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)--Göteborg University, 1996

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Over the last 40 years, the study of word-order variation has become a prominent and fruitful field of research. Researc

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Negation is a universal syntactic phenomenon only employed in human languages. People use negative sentences in everyday

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Patrick Baker's post-modern approach uses ideas from chaos theory and world systems theory to interpret the prehist

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