Typological Studies
Word Order and Relative Clauses
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Linguistics
| Author: | Guglielmo Cinque | ISBN: | 9781317691235 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | February 4, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Guglielmo Cinque |
| ISBN: | 9781317691235 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | February 4, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis à vis his object; a general cross-linguistic analysis of correlatives; the need to distinguish a sentence-grammar, from a discourse-grammar, type of non-restrictives (with languages differing as to whether they possess both, one, the other, or neither); a selective type of extraction from relative clauses; and a tentative sketch of a more ample work in progress on a unified analysis of externally headed, internally headed, and headless relative clauses.
In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis à vis his object; a general cross-linguistic analysis of correlatives; the need to distinguish a sentence-grammar, from a discourse-grammar, type of non-restrictives (with languages differing as to whether they possess both, one, the other, or neither); a selective type of extraction from relative clauses; and a tentative sketch of a more ample work in progress on a unified analysis of externally headed, internally headed, and headless relative clauses.
