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The Final-Over-Final Condition, Volume 76 - A Syntactic Universal (Paperback)
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The Final-Over-Final Condition, Volume 76 - A Syntactic Universal (Paperback)
Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
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An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications
of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range
of languages. This book presents evidence for a universal word
order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and
discusses the theoretical implications of this phenomenon. FOFC is
a syntactic condition that disallows structures where a
head-initial phrase is contained in a head-final phrase in the same
extended projection/domain. The authors argue that FOFC is a
linguistic universal, not just a strong tendency, and not a
constraint on processing. They discuss the effects of the universal
in various domains, including the noun phrase, the adjective
phrase, the verb phrase, and the clause. The book draws on data
from a wide range of languages, including Hindi, Turkish, Basque,
Finnish, Afrikaans, German, Hungarian, French, English, Italian,
Romanian, Arabic, Hebrew, Mandarin, Pontic Greek, Bagirmi, Dholuo,
and Thai. FOFC, the authors argue, is important because it is the
only known example of a word order asymmetry pertaining to the
order of heads. As such, it has significant repercussions for
theories connecting the narrow syntax to linear order.
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