The final-over-final condition : a syntactic universal / by Michelle Sheehan, Theresa Biberauer, Ian Roberts and Anders Holmberg.
2017
P295 .F56 2017eb
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The final-over-final condition : a syntactic universal / by Michelle Sheehan, Theresa Biberauer, Ian Roberts and Anders Holmberg.
Author
Sheehan, Michelle, author.
ISBN
9780262342018 (electronic bk.)
0262342014 (electronic bk.)
9780262036696
0262342014 (electronic bk.)
9780262036696
Published
Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2017
Language
English
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1 online resource (464 pages).
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P295 .F56 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
415
Summary
An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a universal word order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and discusses the theoretical implications of this phenomenon. FOFC is a syntactic condition that disallows structures where a head-initial phrase is contained in a head-final phrase in the same extended projection/domain. The authors argue that FOFC is a linguistic universal, not just a strong tendency, and not a constraint on processing. They discuss the effects of the universal in various domains, including the noun phrase, the adjective phrase, the verb phrase, and the clause. The book draws on data from a wide range of languages, including Hindi, Turkish, Basque, Finnish, Afrikaans, German, Hungarian, French, English, Italian, Romanian, Arabic, Hebrew, Mandarin, Pontic Greek, Bagirmi, Dholuo, and Thai. FOFC, the authors argue, is important because it is the only known example of a word order asymmetry pertaining to the order of heads. As such, it has significant repercussions for theories connecting the narrow syntax to linear order.
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Biberauer, Theresa, author.
Roberts, Ian G., author.
Holmberg, Anders, author.
Sheehan, Michelle, author.
Roberts, Ian G., author.
Holmberg, Anders, author.
Sheehan, Michelle, author.
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