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1 online resource |
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Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics today (LA) ; volume 231 |
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 231.
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| Contents |
Introduction / (Kristin Melum Eide) -- Part I: Finiteness: underlying relations: Chapter 2: Finiteness and Pseudofiniteness / (Elizabeth Cowper) -- Chapter 3: The Split T Analysis / (Halldór Ármann Sigurdsson) -- Chapter 4: Universals and Variation: Encoding Anaphoric Dependencies / (Eric Reuland) -- Chapter 5: Finiteness, inflection, and the syntax your morphology can afford /(Kristin Melum Eide) -- Part II: Morphosyntactic exponents of (non- )finiteness: Chapter 6: Agreement is not an essential ingredient of finiteness: Evidence from impersonal sentences in Norwegian dialects and in English / (Tor A. Åfarli) -- Chapter 7: Finite vs. non-finite distinction in Saam ́aka /(Marleen van de Vate & Tonjes Veenstra) -- Chapter 8: Finiteness and response particles in West Flemish / (Liliane Haegeman and Andrew Weir) : Part III: Finiteness in language acquisition / Chapter 9: Word Order and Finiteness in Acquisition: A Study of English and Norwegian Wh-questions / (Marit Westergaard) -- Chapter 10: The influence of phonological factors on the expression of finiteness by children learning Dutch / (Elma Blom and Nada Vasic) -- Chapter 11: Contradictory parameter settings in one mind: A case study of a Mandarin-Norwegian bilingual's acquisition of finiteness and V2 in Norwegian / (Fufen Jin and Kristin Melum Eide) |
| Summary |
"Although standardly recognized by linguists of many diverse theoretical persuasions, finiteness continues to figure among ... the most poorly understood concepts of linguistic theory". This was eloquently stated by Ledgeway (2000, 2007) and remains true even today. The present volume thus aims to shed some much needed light on this area of linguistic theorizing, with eleven chapters approaching finiteness phenomena from the fields of syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and Creole studies, and providing data from a range of different languages. Traditionally, approaches to finiteness within the Principles and Parameters framework have seen as their main aim to understand the relation between the morphological exponents of finiteness and the syntactic operations seemingly depending on these exponents. The papers in this volume mostly take their point of departure from this more traditional view on finiteness, before elaborating on, modifying and diverging from this tradition in novel and interesting ways |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Finiteness (Linguistics)
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Natural language processing
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Finiteness (Linguistics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Eide, Kristin M., 1965- editor
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| LC no. |
2016024259 |
| ISBN |
9789027266972 |
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9027266972 |
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