Oxford University Press, 2000. — 282 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Overt subjects are usually considered as a property of finite clauses. However, most Romance languages permit specified subjects in a broad range of infinitive constructions. Guido Mensching analyzes this phenomenon in stages of French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and other Romance varieties.
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 288 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). One of the world’s leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of the clause. In this theory, both adverbs and heads, which encode the functional notions of the clause, are...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 394 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book presents a collection of recent articles by Richard Kayne, one of the top formal linguists in the world. It focuses on both comparative syntax, which uses differences between languages as a new and fine-grained tool for illuminating properties of the human language faculty, and...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 266 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book studies three salient phenomena of the West Germanic language group, namely scrambling, remnant movement and restructuring, and discusses their interrelatedness. It shows that scrambling cannot be taken to create the remnant categories necessary for VO-topicalization and the formation of...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 336 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Syntactically speaking, it has long been known that noun phrases are parallel to clauses in many respects. While most syntactic theories incorporate this principle, nouns have generally been regarded as inferior to verbs in terms of their licensing abilities, and nominal projections have been...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 329 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book establishes the need for a competitive approach to the distribution and interpretation of anaphoric relations in natural language, and makes a particular proposal about the sort of competitive theory of anaphora that might be on the right track. Linguists are especially interested in...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 384 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne. The papers cover issues of comparative syntax as they are applied to French, Italian, and other Romance languages and dialects, together forming a strongly cohesive set that will...
Springer, 1995. — 344 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 31). This volume contains 13 papers that were prepared for the Seventh Workshop on Comparative Germanie Syntax at the University of Stuttgart in November 1991. In defining the theme both of the workshop and of this volume, we have taken "comparative" in "comparative Germanic syntax" to mean that at...
Oxford University Press, 1992. — 250 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This work represents the first full scale attempt to provide a restrictive theory of parameters the nature and limits of syntactic variation. Focusing on syntactic saturation, Webelhuth hypothesizes that in natural language these phenomena are subject to the “Saturation Condition.” He explains...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 264 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book puts forth a novel syntactic and semantic analysis of wh-questions based upon in-depth study of the Tlingit language, an endangered and under-documented language of North America. A major consequence of this new approach is that the phenomenon classically dubbed pied-piping does not...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 254 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's Extended Projection Principle and its relationship to subjects and expletives (words like "it" that stand for other words). Re-examining Chomsky's proposition that each clause must have a subject, these articles represent...
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 556 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book investigates in detail the grammar of polysynthetic languages-those with very complex verbal morphology. Baker argues that polysynthesis is more than an accidental collection of morphological processes; rather, it is a systematic way of representing predicate-argument relationships that...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 289 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book argues that aspect-based split ergativity does not mark a split in how Case is assigned, but rather, a split in sentence structure. The contexts in which we find the appearance of a nonergative pattern in an otherwise ergative language—namely, the nonperfective aspects—involve an...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 337 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). The papers in this collection all deal with the concept of locality in syntactic theory and more specifically relate to the various contributions Luigi Rizzi has made in this connection over the past three and a half decades. The authors are all either former students of Rizzi’s or colleagues and...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 369 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Functional sequencing has been one of the major empirical goals of the 20-year old cartographic enterprise in Syntax. The papers in this collection extend this goal in several directions. Several chapters consider the impact of functional sequence on the semantics and pragmatics of focus. Others...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 336 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book is a Festschrift for Tarald Taraldsen. It consists of nine chapters on central issues in theoretical comparative syntax. The first three chapters deal with subject extraction, null subjects, the que/qui alternation, and relative clause formation. One chapter presents arguments that...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 333 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages. The book argues that the dissimilar surface characteristics of these languages (primarily English and Romance, but also Gungbe, Hungarian,...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 313 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). The present volume intends to contribute to our understanding of the grammar of spatial prepositional phrases by focusing on one particular aspect of their syntax that has remained relatively neglected: the fine-grained articulation of their internal structure. The analyses presented in the book,...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 348 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). The empirical work on sentence structure over the last several years has been advanced by the so-called cartographic program, which aims to provide a map of the functional projections in clausal architecture; in the framework of this project, a highly articulated functional structure has been...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 232 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This volume collects the recent published articles of Guglielmo Cinque of the University of Venice, one of the world's top linguists. The book is divided into two sections, the first on restructuring, a central topic in Romance syntax and with connections to other language groups as well. The...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 287 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Adriana Belletti here collects work presented by top scholars at a workshop at the University of Siena in connection with a visit by Noam Chomsky. These eight articles go beyond strictly mapping syntactic properties, touching on broader theoretical questions related to Chomsky’s Minimalist Program...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 376 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). The purpose of this edited volume is to study the structure of the inflectional field and the left peripheral field of clauses, often described as the systems of IP (Inflection Phrase, a syntactic category used to describe clauses without complement clauses) and CP (Complementizer Phrase, a word...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 242 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This edited volume presents the first results of a long term research project, funded by the Italian Government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal phrases, and other major phrases making up sentences. Structural representations are seen to arise from the...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 321 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Nouns in many Bantu languages show a strikingly unrestricted syntactic distribution, leading to proposals that syntactic case does not play an active role in the grammar of Bantu. This book argues for a different conclusion, proposing on the basis of Zulu that Bantu languages have not only a...
Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. — 388 p. — (Studies in Generative Grammar 69). This book deals with the syntax of the free word order phenomenon (scrambling) in a wide range of languages - in particular, German, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Tongan, and Turkish - in some of which the phenomenon was previously unstudied. In the past, the syntax of free word...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 333 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Comparative syntax has been playing an increasingly important role in research in syntactic theory. Japanese has also been discussed in comparative perspective, but the comparison has been mostly with English. This volume aims to pursue the comparative syntax of Japanese with other Asian languages...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 377 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). By comparing linguistic varieties that are quite similar overall, linguists can often determine where and how grammatical systems differ, and how they change over time. The goal of this work is to provide a systematic look at minimal differences in the syntax of varieties of English spoken in...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 705 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This volume comprises twenty eight papers selected from the widely known work of K.A. Jayaseelan and R. Amritavalli on Dravidian. Collectively, these papers cover the entire area of Dravidian syntax: they range from broad questions such as sentence structure and word order to more particular...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 345 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This volume explores the syntactic nature of dative-marked DPs from a microcomparative approach. The volume attempts to address some of the core issues related to dative DPs, such as the range of syntactic positions they can occupy in the structure of the clause; the relationship between dative...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 408 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Anaphors such as English herself, French elle-même, and Mandarin ziji are usually claimed to obey locality requirements stated by Condition A of Binding Theory. But we observe that in various languages, the same anaphors can be exempt from these locality requirements under certain conditions. The...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 411 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book presents and analyzes various features of the morpho-syntax of Borgomanerese, a Gallo-Italic dialect spoken in the town of Borgomanero, in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy. The study is comparative, drawing on the literature on numerous other Italian dialects and Romance languages...
Verlag Liebaug-Dartmann, 2008. — 164 S. Die Übungsgrammatik für Anfänger richtet sich an Lernende, deren Sprachkenntnisse vom Anfangsniveau bis zur Stufe A2 des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Referenzrahmens reichen. Als Übungs- und Nachschlagegrammatik dient sie zum Erlernen, Wiederholen und Vertiefen von Strukturwissen und kann sowohl im Deutschunterricht als auch – mit dem...
Max Hueber Verlag, 2002. — 248 S. Die em Übungsgrammatik ist die ideale Ergänzung für Lernende, die mit dem Lehrwerk em neu arbeiten, aber auch lehrwerksunabhängig einsetzbar. Voraussetzungen: Grundstufenkenntnisse (obere Grundstufe). Zielgruppe: Lernende Lernende der Niveaustufen B1 bis C1 Lernziel: Vertiefung und Wiederholung der Grund- und Mittelstufengrammatik. Konzeption:...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. — 190 p. — (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 136). Displacement is a fundamental property of grammar. Typically, when an occurrence moves it is pronounced in only one environment. This was previously viewed as a primitive/irreducible property of grammar. Recent work, however, suggests that it follows from principled interactions...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 521 p. Relatively little is known about Africa's endangered languages. Unlike indigenous languages in Australia, North Asia, and the Americas, which are predominantly threatened by colonizers, African languages are threatened most immediately by other local languages. As a result, the threat of language extinction is perceived as lower in Africa...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 449 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought; yet there are far fewer than there might have been. Questions of Syntax collects sixteen papers authored by Richard S. Kayne, a preeminent theoretical syntactician, who has sought over the course of his career to...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 257 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book examines polarity sensitivity—a ubiquitous phenomenon involving expressions such as anybody, nobody, ever, never, and somebody and their counterparts in other languages, with particular focus on Arabic. These expressions belong to different classes such as negative and positive polarity,...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 256 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Over the past thirty years, the generative framework has greatly contributed to the study of both the internal and external syntax of spatial adpositions, with the intent—among many other things—of giving a unitary account of their heterogeneous nature and behavior. Once the Cinderellas of...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 420 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Clitics are grammatical elements that are treated as independent words in syntax but form a phonological unit with the word that precedes or follows it. This volume brings together the facts about clitics in the Slavic languages, where they have become a focal points of recent research. The...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 234 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Many of the world’s languages permit or require clause-initial positioning of the primary predicate, potentially alongside some or all of its dependents. While such predicate fronting (where “fronting” may or may not involve movement) is a cross-linguistically widespread phenomenon, it is also...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 481 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters explore the debate between Cartography and Minimalism: on the one hand, the need for detailed and...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 220 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern Italian dialects. The area contains dialects that are different in most ways yet homogenous syntactically, making it an ideal ground for analyzing...
Zaphon, 2023. — 436 p. — (dubsar: Altorientalistische Publikationen/Publications on the Ancient Near East 28). The festschrift “I Passed over Difficult Mountains” is dedicated to the Assyriologist Mario Liverani. Twenty contributions explore a wide range of historical, philological and archaeological topics related to the Ancient Near East. Among others E. von Dassow focusses...
Zaphon, 2023. — 599 p. — (Investigatio Orientis 9). The volume is dedicated to the ‘supporting characters’ in the history of Egyptology who are not often in the limelight. This is not intended to work to the detriment of the lead actors, nor is the intention to politicize disciplinary history. Rather, it is meant as an appreciation and recognition of the range of agents...
Zaphon, 2023. — 327 p. — (Muziris 1). This volume and the series 'Muziris', of which it is the beginning, have their origins in the observation that the cultural, social and economic history of the Ancient World is receiving increasing attention in contemporary research, but there are still research gaps are to be identified. These gaps result from two deficiencies: On the one...
Zaphon, 2023. — 364 p. — (Muziris 2). The second volume of the new series "Muziris" assembles 11 contributions on "Modern Economics and the Ancient World". – In an introductory chapter, Sven Günther discusses the applicability of bounded rationality approaches – in particular "New Institutional Economics" (NIE) – to (Ancient) History. For this sake, he links basic pillars of...
Zaphon, 2023. — 232 p. — (wEdge 3). Studies on the reception of Antiquity are booming, and the volume is a further reflection of this process. It brings together thirteen articles with a focus on the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th. During the 19th century, the (re)discovery through archaeology of Assyrian sites such as Nineveh triggered enormous interest among...
Zaphon, 2023. — 398 p. — (marru 7). This Festschrift is a tribute to Zeidan Kafafi in appreciation for his lifelong commitment and contribution to the field of Near Eastern archaeology and in particular that of Jordan with the Archaeology Department at the al-Yarmouk University. In accordance with his focus of interest, the 18 contributions assembled in this volume...
Zaphon, 2023. — 281 p. — (Ägypten und Altes Testament 122). Tell Es-Safi/Gath is one of the largest pre-classical sites in the ancient Levant, continuously settled from the Protohis- toric periods until Modern times and is identified as ancient Canaanite and Philistine Gath (known from the el Amarna letters, Assyrian texts, and the Bible), Medieval Blanche Garde, and the modern...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. — 324 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 379). Sentence (1) represents the phenomenon of reported thought, (2) that of reported speech: (1) Sasha thought: "This is fine" or Sasha thought that this would be fine (2) Sasha said: "This is fine" or Sasha said that this would be fine While sentences as in (1) have often been...