Mirrors and Microparameters Phrase Structure Beyond Free Word Order

Name: Mirrors and Microparameters Phrase Structure Beyond Free Word Order
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ISBN: 9780521517560

ISBN-10: 0521517567

ISBN-13: 9780521517560

Edition: 2009

Authors: David Adger, Daniel Harbour, Laurel J. Watkins

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Book details

List price: $155.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/29/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 204
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of tables


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations and notation


Kiowa phonemes and orthography



Introduction



What this book is about



The Kiowa language



Historical sketch



Grammatical sketch



Sources and methodology



Nonconfigurationality and polysynthesis



Introduction



Grammatical functions and fixity of order



Definitions and history



Baker's macroparametric approach



Derivation of nonconfigurational properties



Problems



Conclusion



The clausal spine



Introduction



The clausal mirror



Suffixal morphology



Particle syntax



Statement and illustration



The Cinque Hierarchy



Against a simplistic explanation



Digression: the imperative



The inverse base effect



Argument structure and adjuncts



Argument-argument combinations



Argument-adjunct combinations



Statement



Making mirrors



Introduction



Preliminary: against functional iteration



A head-final approach



Head initiality and roll-up phrasal movement



A Minor-Theoretic approach



Mirror Theory



Deriving the generalizations



The agreement prefix



Conclusion



Interface properties of clausal domains



Introduction



Higher clause structure



Information structure, discourse structure



Semantic restrictions on clausal position



Focus marking



Adnotninal elements



Statement



Anti-quantification and the syntax-semantics interface



Introduction



Wh-elements and focus



Bare quantifiers



Quantificational and cardinal determiners



A syntax-semantics mapping conjecture



Kiowa quantifiers



Clitic Left Dislocation



Pre-wft elements



Conclusion


Appendix


References


Index