17.2773, Books: Syntax: Falk

[LINGUIST Network]

LINGUIST List: Vol-17-2773. Tue Sep 26 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.2773, Books: Syntax: Falk

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>
 
Reviews: Laura Welcher, Rosetta Project / Long Now Foundation  
         <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne
State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <maria at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers
are available at the end of this issue. 


===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 20-Sep-2006
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Subjects and Universal Grammar: Falk 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:58:38
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Subjects and Universal Grammar: Falk 
 



Title: Subjects and Universal Grammar 
Subtitle: An Explanatory Theory 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics   113  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: Yehuda N. Falk, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hardback: ISBN: 0521858542 Pages: 258 Price: U.S. $ 90.00
Hardback: ISBN: 0521858542 Pages: 258 Price: U.K. £ 50.00


Abstract:

The 'subject' of a sentence is a concept that presents great challenges to
linguists. Most languages have something which looks like a subject, but
subjects differ across languages in their nature and properties, making
them an interesting phenomenon for those seeking linguistic universals.
This pioneering volume takes a new approach to subjects, addressing their
nature from a simultaneously formal and typological perspective. Dividing
the subject into two distinct grammatical functions, it shows how the
nature of these functions explains their respective properties, and argues
that the split in properties shown in 'ergative' languages (whereby the
subject of intransitive verbs is marked as an object) results from the
functions being assigned to different elements of the clause. Drawing on
data from a typologically wide variety of languages, including English,
Hebrew, Tagalog, Inuit and Acehnese, it explains why, even in the case of
very different languages, certain core properties can be found. 



1. On subjects and explanation; 
2. Most prominent argument; 
3. Pivot; 
4. Long distance dependencies; 
5. Control constructions; 
6. Universality; 
7. Competing theories. 


Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian (ike)
                     Hebrew (heb)
                     Tagalog (tgl)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=21299


MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Blackwell Publishing          
		http://www.blackwellpublishing.com	

	Cambridge University Press          
		http://us.cambridge.org	

	Cascadilla Press          
		http://www.cascadilla.com/	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd          
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	Edinburgh University Press          
		http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/	

	Equinox Publishing Ltd.          
		http://www.equinoxpub.com/	

	European Language Resources Association - ELRA          
		http://www.elda.org/sommaire.php	

	Georgetown University Press          
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu	

	Hodder Arnold          
		http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk	

	John Benjamins          
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates          
		http://www.erlbaum.com/	

	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom.at	

	MIT Press          
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Mouton de Gruyter          
		http://www.mouton-publishers.com	

	Multilingual Matters          
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/	

	Oxford University Press          
		http://www.oup.com/us	

	Palgrave Macmillan          
		http://www.palgrave.com	

	Rodopi          
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)          
		http://www.routledge.com/	

	Springer          
		http://www.springer.com	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Anthropological Linguistics
		http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/ 

	CSLI Publications
		http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/ 

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc.   Umass
		http://glsa.hypermart.net/ 

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://www.ipra.be 

	Kingston Press Ltd
		http://www.kingstonpress.com/ 

	Linguistic Assoc. of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 

	MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
		http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/ 

	Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
		http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ 

	Peter Lang AG
		http://www.peterlang.com 

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 

	St. Jerome Publishing Ltd.
		http://www.stjerome.co.uk 

	Utrecht institute of Linguistics
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ 
	



-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-17-2773