Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation by Artemis Alexiadou, Tracy Alan Hall

By Artemis Alexiadou, Tracy Alan Hall

The articles of the current quantity encompass generative analyses facing a number of present themes of dialogue and debate in syntactic idea, reminiscent of clitics, be aware order, scrambling, directionality, flow. the knowledge within the quantity are drawn from a couple of typologically diversified languages (e.g. Arabic, Berber, Dutch, Gaelic, Greek, Malagasy).

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No language of this type is known. e. the ) guaran­ tees that the functional head precedes its complement and that the Spec-position of a functional projection precedes the functional head. The Spec-head-comple­ ment order of functional projections is derived from the . The  eliminates three of the four structural possibilities for projections consisting of a functional head, its complement and a Spec-position. One is (25), with head and specifier at the right. The second is (11a), with a head at the right and the Spec at the left.

P appears as a sister of NP in Spec X if X is a non Case assigning category. I assume, following a suggestion in Marantz (1991) that P is a realization of a "dependent Case" — a Case marker that is assigned just when X takes an internal argument distinct from the NP in Spec XP and it does not assign a structural Case to its internal argument. An alternative way of viewing this would be to view this as a (partial) parallel to genitive Case assignment by an N' in Mary's picture of Bill (cf.

2) A lexically distinct form of verb have is generally missing in verb peripheral languages. That is, verb have is generally confined to SVO languages. With respect to the correlation in (1), the central question can be framed as follows: why is incorporation of the adposition possible in French (or SVO languages in general) while the incorporation is blocked in SOV or VSO languages (Hindi being an example of an SOV language)? As noted earlier in the paper, I would like to suggest that the ability/failure of P incorporation in French vs.

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