1st Edition
The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads Collected Essays of Hilda J. Koopman
By Hilda J Koopman
Copyright 2000
398 Pages
by
Routledge
398 Pages
by
Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
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Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as:
* interpretation and distribution of pronouns
* ECP effects
* specifiers and phrase structure
* the role and functioning of head movement
* the architecture of grammar
Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch.
Acknowledgments, Introduction, PART I Pronouns and WCO, PART II ECP, PART III Specifiers and phrase structure, PART IV Heads, PART V Specifiers and Heads, Index
Biography
Hilda J Koopman