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This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780195132236
  • ISBN-10: 0195132238
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publish Date: June 2000
  • Dimensions: 9.18 x 6.46 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Page Count: 272

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