Word Order Matters: Current Issues in Syntax and Morpho-Syntax

ISBN-13: 9783631879528 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 194 str.

Przemyslaw Tajsner; Jacek Witkos

Opis

Word order and syntactic structure are intertwined. Cross-linguistically, focus, clefts and topic can be located in sentence left-periphery or elsewhere. Syntactic derivations may be freed from lexical features. Reason clauses are accountable within the theory of relativization. Gradient acceptability is a crucial tool for linguistic evaluation.

Spis treści

syntax - morpho-syntax - comparative linguistics - minimalism - word order - reason clauses - relative clauses - focus - topic - cleft sentences - information structure - left-periphery - sentence cartography - lexical features - derivation - phase - introspective judgments - gradient acceptability - reflexives - pronouns

O autorze

Przemyslaw Tajsner is professor of linguistics at the Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU), Poznañ, Poland. His major research area is the interface of information structure and syntax, but his interests extend to comparative linguistics, minimalist syntax and biolinguistics.

Jacek Witkos is a professor of linguistics at AMU, with a record of research in English/Polish comparative morpho-syntax from the generative and minimalist perspective. He has published on a variety of topics, including wh-movement and its reconstruction, negation, control, reflexives and distribution and properties of pronouns.