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Symmetry Breaking in Syntax (Hardcover, New)
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Symmetry Breaking in Syntax (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
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In this illuminating new theory of grammar, Hubert Haider
demonstrates that there is a basic asymmetry in the phrase
structure of any language, whatever sentence structure it takes.
Moreover, he argues that understanding this asymmetry is the key to
understanding the grammatical causality underlying a broad range of
core syntactic phenomena. Until now, Germanic languages have been
seen to fall into two distinct classes: those which take an
object-verb sentence structure (OV) or a verb-object one (VO).
However, by examining the nature of this universal underlying
asymmetry, Hubert Haider reveals a third syntactic type: 'Type
III'. In particular, he employs the third type to explore the
cognitive evolution of grammar which gave rise to the structural
asymmetry and its typological implications. Symmetry Breaking in
Syntax will appeal to academic researchers and graduate students
involved in comparative and theoretical syntax and the cognitive
evolution of grammar.
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