Coordination

ISBN-13: 9780198237099 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 304 str.

Janne Bondi Johannessen

Opis

Johannessen focuses on coordination, i.e. structures with conjunctions such as and, but, and or. These are important words in their constructions because they have many properties in common with categories like verbs and prepositions. She has analyzed thirty-three languages and has found many striking similarities, presenting the first study of coordination from a cross-linguistic perspective. Her theory of syntactic coordination aims to be general and universal, and is broadly compatible with Chomsky's minimalist framework.

Recenzje

Among the clear strenghts of this book is the coverage of data, both as to the number of languages taken into account and the many different and unusual types of coordination data discussed. The book is also easy to read ... Although I do not aways agree with the proposals that are made, the boldness with which they are argued for is often impressive and actually makes reading this book quite entertaining.