A minimalist approach to scrambling: evidence from Persian
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Main Author: Karimi, Simin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter 2005
Series:Studies in generative grammar 76
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-258) and indexes
This study addresses the problems scrambling langauges provide for the existing syntactic theories by analyzing the interaction of semantic and discourse functional factors with syntactic properties of word order in this type of languages, and by discussing the implications of this interaction for Universal Grammar. Three interrelated goals are carefully followed in this work. The first is to analyze the syntactic structure of Persian, a language which exhibits free word order. With this analysis, the author has accounted for the relative order of categorized expressions, the motivation for th
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 265 p.)
ISBN:3110182963
3110199793
9783110182965
9783110199796