The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads: Collected Essays of Hilda J. Koopman / Edition 1

by Hilda J Koopman

Overview

Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as:
* interpretation and distribution of pronouns
* ECP effects
* specifiers and phrase structure
* the role and functioning of head movement
* the architecture of grammar
Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415161831
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/21/1999
Series:	Routledge Leading Linguists , #3
Pages:	398
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments, Introduction, PART I Pronouns and WCO, PART II ECP, PART III Specifiers and phrase structure, PART IV Heads, PART V Specifiers and Heads, Index