Description

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 to take a crosslinguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems anddebates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.

 

Hardback: ISBN10: 019513222X
Paperback:ISBN10: 0195132238

 

Reviews 

• LINGUIST 12.1549: http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-1549.html (reviewer: Mark Campana, Kobe City U.)

• LINGUIST 12.2418: http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-2418.html (reviewer: Matthew Walenski, Georgetown)

• International Journal of American Linguistics 69.1 96-98. (reviewer: Cheryl Black, SIL) https://doi.org/10.1086/376607

• Journal of Linguistics 38.3: 710-712 (reviewer: David Willis, Oxford U). https://www.jstor.org/stable/4176780

• SIL e-Review (www.sil.org) by Helga Schroeder, University of Nairobi.  https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/10/94/37/109437101117443585173785564444313288106/SILEBR_2003_022.pdf

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Table of Contents

 

Contributors

Chapter 1. Introduction: Andrew Carnie and Eithne Guilfoyle

Chapter 2. Celtic Initials. Randall Hendrick

Chapter 3. VSO Order as Raising out of IP? Evidence from Old Irish. Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley and Elizabeth Pyatt

Chapter 4. Tense and N-features in Irish. Eithne Guilfoyle

Chapter 5. VSO and left-conjunct Agreement: Biblical Hebrew vs. Modern Hebrew. Edit Doron

Chapter 6. VSO and VOS: Aspects of Niuean Word Order. Diane Massam

Chapter 7. V-initial Languages: X or XP Movemetn and Adverbial Placement. Andrea Rackowski and Lisa deMena Travis

Chapter 8. VP Remnant Movement and VSO in Quiaviní Zapotec. Felicia Lee

Chapter 9. Locus Operandi. Ray Freeze and Garol Georgopoulos

Chapter 10. Prosodic Conditions on Anaphora and Clitics in Jakaltek. Judith Aissen

Chapter 11. Animacy Hierarchies and Sentence Processing. Seth Minkoff

Chapter 12. Predicate Raising in Lummi, Straits Salish. Eloise Jelinek.

References

Index