| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Theory and experiment in syntax/ Grant Goodall. |
| Author: |
Goodall, Grant. |
| Published: |
New York, NY :Routledge, : 2022., |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xi, 351 p.) :ill. (black and white). |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction: Five themes in the study of syntax -- Three-dimensional syntax. Coordination -- Case, clitics, and lexical NP's in Romance causatives -- Wanna-contraction as restructuring -- Syntax and argument structure. Evidence foran asymmetry in argument structure -- X'-internal word order in Mandarin Chinese and universal grammar -- On case and the passive morpheme -- alignment and the by-phrase -- Accusative case in passives -- Passives and arbitrary plural subjects in Spanish -- The syntax of subjects and wh-dependencies. On the status of SPEC of IP -- The EPP in Spanish -- Inversion in wh-questions in child Romance and child English -- Experimenting with wh-movement in Spanish -- Syntactic satiation and the inversion effect in English and Spanish wh-questions -- Constraints on wh-dependencies. Age-related effects on constraints on wh-movement -- Is magnitude estimation worth the trouble? -- The D-linking effect on extraction from islands and non-islands -- Referentiality and resumption in wh-dependencies -- D-linking, non-finiteness, and cross-linguistic variation in island phenomena. |
| Subject: |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax. - |
| Online resource: |
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003160144 |
| ISBN: |
9781003160144 |