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Title Theoretical approaches to universals / edited by Artemis Alexiadou
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 316 pages) : illustrations
Series Linguistik aktuell, 0166-0829 = Linguistics today ; v. 49
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 49.
Contents Theoretical Approaches to Universals; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Universal features and language-particular morphemes; Agree or attract?; Distributed deletion; Roots, constituents, and c-command; A four-way classification of monadic verbs; On Agreement; A minimalist account of conflation processes; Morphological constraints on syntactic derivations; Intermediate traces, reconstruction and locality effects; Index; Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
Summary The present volume has its origin in the GLOW conference on Universals hosted in Berlin in March 1999. The papers in this volume are concerned both with formal as well as with substantive universals. All the contributions attempt to identify universal properties of the language faculty, as well as the source of cross-linguistic variation. They cover a wide range of empirical phenomena across languages such as locality, deletion, verb classes, XP-split constructions, Quantifier Raising, the EPP, the Person Case Constraint etc. Some of the articles pay particular attention to the organization of
Notes Papers from a conference on universals organized by the Research Center for General Linguistics, the Linguistics Department of the University of Potsdam and the Dutch Graduate School in Linguistics and hosted in Berlin in March 1999
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Linguistic universals -- Congresses
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Congresses
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Linguistic universals
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Alexiadou, Artemis
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung.
Universität Potsdam. Institut für Linguistik.
Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap.
LC no. 2002021464
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