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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     Table of Contents         Discover more across the Smithsonian     Adger, David     Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax     Kiowa language -- Syntax     Kiowa (Langue) -- Syntaxe.     Syntaxe.     17.52 syntax.     18.91 American Indian languages.     Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax     Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax     Kiowa (folk) -- språk     Kiowa language -- Syntax     Kiowa-Sprache     Kontrastive Syntax     Syntax     Syntax     Kiowa.     Phrasal constructions.     Principles and parameters (linguistics)     Syntax.     Word order.     Kiowa-Sprache     Harbour, Daniel     Watkins, Laurel J.,       MARC Display

Mirrors and microparameters phrase structure beyond free word order / David Adger, Daniel Harbour and Laurel J. Watkins   Author:  Adger, David author Title:  Mirrors and microparameters phrase structure beyond free word order / David Adger, Daniel Harbour and Laurel J. Watkins Publisher:  Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press 2009. Description:  xiv, 190 pages ill 24 cm Related Elec. Res.:  Cover image  http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/17560/cover/9780521517560.jpg Contributor biographical information  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009025311-b.html Publisher description  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009025311-d.html Electronic Version:  Table of contents only  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009025311-t.html Series:  Cambridge studies in linguistics ; -- 122 Summary:  "What is the nature of syntactic structure? Why do some languages have radically free word order ('nonconfigurationality')? Do parameters vary independently (the micro-view) or can they co-vary en masse (the macro-view)? Mirrors and Microparameters examines these questions by looking beyond the definitional criterion of nonconfigurationality - that arguments may be freely ordered, omitted, and split. Drawing on newly discovered data from Kiowa, a member of the largely undescribed Kiowa-Tanoan language family, the book reveals that classically nonconfigurational languages can nonetheless exhibit robustly configurational effects. Reconciling the cooccurrence of such freedom with such rigidity has major implications for the Principles and Parameters program. This novel approach to nonconfigurational languages challenges widespread assumptions of linguistic theory and throws light on the syntactic structures, ordering principles, and nature of parametrization that comprise Universal Grammar"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Note:  Includes bibliographical references and index Contents:  Introduction -- Nonconfigurationality and polysynthesis -- The clausal spin -- Making mirrors -- Interface properties of clausal domains -- Anti-quantification and the syntax-semantics interface -- Conclusion Subject:  Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax Kiowa language -- Syntax Kiowa (Langue) -- Syntaxe. Syntaxe. 17.52 syntax. 18.91 American Indian languages. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax Kiowa (folk) -- språk Kiowa language -- Syntax Kiowa-Sprache Kontrastive Syntax Syntax Syntax Kiowa. Phrasal constructions. Principles and parameters (linguistics) Syntax. Word order. Kiowa-Sprache Added Author:  Harbour, Daniel Watkins, Laurel J., 1946- Added Series:  Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 122 Catalog Source No.:  (OCoLC)318871926 ISBN:  0521517567 9780521517560 Copy/Holding information Call No. Collection Barcode Status   PM1531 .A34 2009 American Indian, National Museum of 39088015197452 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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