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Mirrors and microparameters :

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0511658192

(Number (ISBN

0521517567

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9780511658198

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9780521517560

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9780521517560

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b752541

Title Proper

Mirrors and microparameters :

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[Book]

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phrase structure beyond free word order /

First Statement of Responsibility

David Adger, Daniel Harbour, and Laurel J. Watkins.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2009.

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1 online resource (xiv, 190 pages) :

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illustrations

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Cambridge studies in linguistics ;

Volume Designation

122

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction -- Nonconfigurationality and polysynthesis -- The clausal spin -- Making mirrors -- Interface properties of clausal domains -- Anti-quantification and the syntax-semantics interface -- Conclusion.

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"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 newly discovered 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 novel 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"--Provided by publisher.

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MIL

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240245

Title

Mirrors and microparameters.

Grammar, Comparative and general-- Syntax.

Kiowa language-- Syntax.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY-- Native American Languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general-- Syntax.

Kontrastive Syntax

Syntax

Kiowa-Sprache.

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Edition

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Adger, David.

Harbour, Daniel.

Watkins, Laurel J.,1946-

Date of Transaction

20201204121022.0

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[Book]

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