LINGUIST List 22.379 Fri Jan 21 2011 Books: Historical Linguistics/Syntax: Pysz Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Chris Humphrey , The Syntax of Prenominal and Postnominal Adjectives in Old English: Pysz Message 1: The Syntax of Prenominal and Postnominal Adjectives in Old English: Pysz Date: 23-Dec-2010 From: Chris Humphrey <chumphreyc-s-p.org> Subject: The Syntax of Prenominal and Postnominal Adjectives in Old English: Pysz E-mail this message to a friend Title: The Syntax of Prenominal and Postnominal Adjectives in Old English Published: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing                 http://www.c-s-p.org Author: Agnieszka Pysz Hardback: ISBN: 9781443813983 Pages: 360 Price: U.K. £ 44.99 Abstract: Please Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced text. This book is the first monograph which provides a comprehensive discussion of the syntactic behaviour of Old English (OE) adnominal adjectives. Drawing on the empirical data retrieved from the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (Taylor, Warner, Pintzuk & Beths 2003), the author proposes an analysis of OE adjectives by means of a theoretical apparatus couched in the framework of Chomsky's generative grammar. The analysis incorporates the following properties of OE adjectives: * their inflectional patterning, i.e. whether adjectives take "weak" and "strong" inflectional endings * the so-called "adjective stacking", i.e. whether adjectives can occur in uninterrupted strings * the surface placement with respect to their complements * the surface placement with respect to the nominal head The author observes that the differences between prenominal and postnominal adjectives go far beyond the superficial difference in their surface placement. She argues therefore that the two types of adjectives require two different theoretical treatments. The volume consists of five chapters. It is supplemented by four appendices and an extensive bibliography. Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Syntax Subject Language(s): Old English (ang) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52449 New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Page Updated: 21-Jan-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.