30.285, Books: Questions of Syntax: Kayne

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Subject: 30.285, Books: Questions of Syntax: Kayne

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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:20:23
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Questions of Syntax: Kayne

 


Title: Questions of Syntax 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/questions-of-syntax-9780190863586 


Author: Richard S. Kayne

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190863586 Pages: 432 Price: U.S. $ 99.00


Abstract:

There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have
thought; yet there are far fewer than there might have been. Questions of
Syntax collects sixteen papers authored by Richard S. Kayne, a preeminent
theoretical syntactician, who has sought over the course of his career to
understand why both these facts are true. 

With a particular emphasis on comparative syntax, these chapters collectively
consider how wide a range of questions the field of syntax can reasonably
attempt to ask and then answer. At issue, among other topics, are the relation
between syntax and (certain aspects of) semantics, the relation between syntax
and what appear to be lexical questions, the relation between syntax and
morphology, the relation between syntax and certain aspects of phonology
(insofar as silent elements and their properties play a substantial role), and
the extent to which comparative syntax can provide new and decisive evidence
bearing on these different kinds of questions. To Kayne, comparative syntax
can shed light on what may initially seem lexical questions, and antisymmetry
on the evolution of human language itself.

Taken as a whole, these essays elucidate the theoretical contributions of one
the most influential scholars in linguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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