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taylorandfrancis.com>Title: Origins of Predicates Subtitle: Evidence from Plains Cree Series Title: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Author: Tomio Hirose Hardback: ISBN: 0415967791, Pages: 288, Price: U.S. $: 80.00 Abstract: This book offers a new perspective on natural language predicates by analyzing data from the Plains Cree language. Contrary to traditional understanding, Cree verbal complexes are syntactic constructs composed of morphemes as syntactic objects that are subject to structurally defined constraints, such as c-command. Tomio Hirose illustrates this in his study of vP syntax, event semantics, morphology-syntax mappings, unaccusativity, noun incorporation, and valency-reducing phenomena. Hirose demonstrates that what is known about aspectual properties of well-studied languages is also true of the less-studied Cree language. His findings significantly advance the study of syntax and semantics in both natural language predicates and in the verbal complexes in polysynthetic languages. Synthesizing the latest in linguistic theory and an array of empirical evidence, this book will be accessible to theoretical linguists, Americanists and students of the Cree language. Lingfield(s): Syntax Subject Language(s): Cree, Plains (Language Code: CRP) Written In: English (Language Code: English) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=9573Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
taylorandfrancis.com>Title: Towards an Elegant Syntax Series Title: Routledge Leading Linguists Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Author: Michael Brody Hardback: ISBN: 0415299594, Pages: 288, Price: U.S. $: 105.00 Abstract: This is a book of essays concerned with syntax, written between 1980 and 2001, in which the search for theoretical elegance takes centre stage. The conceptual difference between 'elegance' and the minimalist search for 'perfection' is examined and the consequences are shown to be wide ranging and radical, leading to a novel approach with a set of simplified potential primitives and axioms. Lingfield(s): Syntax Written In: English (Language Code: English) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=9604Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue