31.1606, Books: Rethinking Verb Second: Woods, Wolfe (eds.)

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Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 16:32:14
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Rethinking Verb Second: Woods, Wolfe (eds.)

 


Title: Rethinking Verb Second 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rethinking-verb-second-9780198844303?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Editor: Rebecca Woods
Editor: Sam Wolfe

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198844303 Pages: 992 Price: U.S. $ 165


Abstract:

This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available
of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax
for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature
primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more
widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the
multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in
developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work
appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and
language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than
in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more
familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages
such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and
Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our
understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers
and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of
syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Morphology
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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