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Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure
Synopsis
This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language.
This book is complemented by Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure
Chapters
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Assertion and factivityTowards explaining restrictions on Embedded V2 in Scandinavian
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An argument against the syntactic nature of verb movement
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Feature Inheritance in Old Spanish(re)visiting V2
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Finite sentences in FinnishWord order, morphology, and information structure
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Scandinavian Object Shift is phonology
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Mainland Scandinavian object shift and the puzzling ergative pattern in Aleut
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Repairing Final-Over-Final Constraint violationsEvidence from Basque verb clusters
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Head-initial postpositional phrases in North Sámi
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Probing the nature of the Final-over-Final ConstraintThe perspective from adpositions
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Nuclear stress and the life cycle of operators
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Response particles beyond answering
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The Common Syntax of Deixis and Affirmation
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V2 and cP/CP
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Verb Second not Verb Second in Syrian Arabic
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Uniqueness of left peripheral focus, “further explanation”, and Int.
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Swedish Wh-Root-infinitives
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A Note on Some Even More Unusual Relative Clauses
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Theoretical limits on borrowing through contact; not everything goes