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Mirrors and Microparameters: Phrase Structure Beyond Free Word Order

Mirrors and Microparameters: Phrase Structure Beyond Free Word Order

Adger, David
Harbour, Daniel
Watkins, Laurel J.

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Book 122

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1107403596
ISBN13: 9781107403598
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Oct 27 2011
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What is the nature of syntactic structure? Why do some languages have radically free word order ('nonconfigurationality')? Do parameters vary independently (the micro-view) or can they co-vary en masse (the macro-view)? Mirrors and Microparameters examines these questions by looking beyond the definitional criterion of nonconfigurationality - that arguments may be freely ordered, omitted, and split. Drawing on data from Kiowa, a member of the largely undescribed Kiowa-Tanoan language family, the book reveals that classically nonconfigurational languages can nonetheless exhibit robustly configurational effects. Reconciling the cooccurrence of such freedom with such rigidity has major implications for the Principles and Parameters program. This approach to nonconfigurational languages challenges widespread assumptions of linguistic theory and throws light on the syntactic structures, ordering principles, and nature of parametrization that comprise Universal Grammar.

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