Symmetry Breaking in Syntax

ISBN-13: 9781107017757 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 284 str.

Hubert Haider

Opis

A new theory of grammar which explores the old distinction between OV and VO languages and their underlying basic asymmetry.

Recenzje

'There's a big idea at the core of this book, that natural languages have only right-branching structures: left-branching structures do not exist. Haider explored this idea in his 2010 Syntax of German, showing that it led to productive analyses for German, but here he takes things to a new level and examines consequences for analyses in a range of languages and compares his proposal to related ideas in other theoretical models.' David W. Lightfoot, Georgetown University

Spis treści

1. What breaks the symmetry in syntactic structures; 2. Linearizations are public, structures are private; 3. BBC - asymmetry in phrase structuring; 4. The cross-linguistic impact of the BBC; 5. The Germanic OV/VO split; 6. Adverbial positions in VO and in OV; 7. Elements of the third kind - resultative predicates and particles - in OV and VO; 8. Asymmetry in nominal structures - word and phrase structure; 9. BBC or LCA? - fact finding and evaluation.