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Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax

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ISBN-10: 0195089715

ISBN-13: 9780195089714

Edition: 1995

Authors: Steven Franks

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Focusing on issues of case theory and comparative grammar, this study treats selected problems in the syntax of the Slavic languages from the perspective of Government-Binding theory. Steven Franks seeks to develop parametric solutions to related constructions among the various Slavic languages. A model of case based loosely on Jakobson's feature system is adapted to a variety of comparative problems in Slavic, including across-the-board constructions, quantification, secondary predication, null subject phenomena, and voice. Solutions considered make use of recent approaches to phrase structure, including the VP-internal subject hypothesis and the DP hypothesis. The book will serve…    
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Book details

List price: $215.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/11/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.13" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes
Matrices, Indices, and Morphosyntactic Features
Notes
Across-The-Board Dependencies
Notes
Quantified Structures: Russian Versus Serbo-Croatian
Notes
Quantified Structures: Polish and Other Puzzles
Notes
Secondary Predication
Notes
Null Subject Phenomena
Notes
Voice Alternations
Notes
Summary and Conclusions
References
Name Index
Subject Index