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From: Joyce Reid [jreid at cambridge.org]
Subject: Mirrors and Microparameters: Adger, Harbour, Watkins


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Subject: Mirrors and Microparameters: Adger, Harbour, Watkins

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Title: Mirrors and Microparameters 
Subtitle: Phrase Structure beyond Free Word Order 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 122  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: David Adger
Author: Daniel Harbour
Author: Laurel J. Watkins

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107403598 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107403598 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 45.00


Abstract:

What is the nature of syntactic structure? Why do some languages have 
radically free word order ('nonconfigurationality')? Do parameters vary 
independently (the micro-view) or can they co-vary en masse (the macro-view)? 
Mirrors and Microparameters, first published in 2009, examines these questions 
by looking beyond the definitional criterion of nonconfigurationality - that 
arguments may be freely ordered, omitted, and split. Drawing on data from 
Kiowa, a member of the largely undescribed Kiowa-Tanoan language family, the 
book reveals that classically nonconfigurational languages can nonetheless 
exhibit robustly configurational effects. Reconciling the cooccurrence of such 
freedom with such rigidity has major implications for the Principles and 
Parameters program. This approach to nonconfigurational languages challenges 
widespread assumptions of linguistic theory and throws light on the syntactic 
structures, ordering principles, and nature of parametrization that comprise 
Universal Grammar. 



1. Introduction
2. Nonconfigurationality and polysynthesis
3. The clausal spin
4. Making mirrors
5. Interface properties of clausal domains
6. Anti-quantification and the syntax-semantics interface
7. Conclusion. 


Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Kiowa (kio)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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