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The Final-Over-Final Condition: A Syntactic Universal

The Final-Over-Final Condition: A Syntactic Universal

Roberts, Ian
Sheehan, Michelle
Biberauer, Theresa

Paperback

Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, Book 76

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 0262534169
ISBN13: 9780262534161
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Oct 27 2017
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages.

This book presents evidence for a universal word order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and discusses the theoretical implications of this phenomenon. FOFC is a syntactic condition that disallows structures where a head-initial phrase is contained in a head-final phrase in the same extended projection/domain. The authors argue that FOFC is a linguistic universal, not just a strong tendency, and not a constraint on processing. They discuss the effects of the universal in various domains, including the noun phrase, the adjective phrase, the verb phrase, and the clause. The book draws on data from a wide range of languages, including Hindi, Turkish, Basque, Finnish, Afrikaans, German, Hungarian, French, English, Italian, Romanian, Arabic, Hebrew, Mandarin, Pontic Greek, Bagirmi, Dholuo, and Thai.

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