Questions of Syntax 0190863587, 9780190863586
There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought; yet there are far fewer than there might
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Table of contents :
Cover
Series
Questions of Syntax
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section A
1. More Languages Than We Might Have Thought. Fewer Languages Than There Might Have Been
2. Comparative Syntax
3. Comparative Syntax and English Is To
4. Having “Need” and Needing “Have” (with Stephanie Harves)
Section B
5. The Silence of Heads
6. A Note on Some Even More Unusual Relative Clauses
7. The Unicity of There and the Definiteness Effect
8. Notes on French and English Demonstratives (with Jean-Yves Pollock)
9. Some Thoughts on One and Two and Other Numerals
10. English One and Ones as Complex Determiners
11. Once and Twice
12. A Note on Grand and Its Silent Entourage
Section C
13. Why Are There No Directionality Parameters?
14. Toward a Syntactic Reinterpretation of Harris and Halle (2005)
15. Locality and Agreement in French Hyper-Complex Inversion (with Jean-Yves Pollock)
16. Clitic Doubling, Person and Agreement in French Hyper-Complex Inversion
Bibliography
Index
Cover
Series
Questions of Syntax
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section A
1. More Languages Than We Might Have Thought. Fewer Languages Than There Might Have Been
2. Comparative Syntax
3. Comparative Syntax and English Is To
4. Having “Need” and Needing “Have” (with Stephanie Harves)
Section B
5. The Silence of Heads
6. A Note on Some Even More Unusual Relative Clauses
7. The Unicity of There and the Definiteness Effect
8. Notes on French and English Demonstratives (with Jean-Yves Pollock)
9. Some Thoughts on One and Two and Other Numerals
10. English One and Ones as Complex Determiners
11. Once and Twice
12. A Note on Grand and Its Silent Entourage
Section C
13. Why Are There No Directionality Parameters?
14. Toward a Syntactic Reinterpretation of Harris and Halle (2005)
15. Locality and Agreement in French Hyper-Complex Inversion (with Jean-Yves Pollock)
16. Clitic Doubling, Person and Agreement in French Hyper-Complex Inversion
Bibliography
Index
