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Questions of Syntax (Hardcover)
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Questions of Syntax (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
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There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might
have thought; yet there are far fewer than there might have been.
Questions of Syntax collects sixteen papers authored by Richard S.
Kayne, a preeminent theoretical syntactician, who has sought over
the course of his career to understand why both these facts are
true. With a particular emphasis on comparative syntax, these
chapters collectively consider how wide a range of questions the
field of syntax can reasonably attempt to ask and then answer. At
issue, among other topics, are the relation between syntax and
(certain aspects of) semantics, the relation between syntax and
what appear to be lexical questions, the relation between syntax
and morphology, the relation between syntax and certain aspects of
phonology (insofar as silent elements and their properties play a
substantial role), and the extent to which comparative syntax can
provide new and decisive evidence bearing on these different kinds
of questions. To Kayne, comparative syntax can shed light on what
may initially seem lexical questions, and antisymmetry on the
evolution of human language itself. Taken as a whole, these essays
elucidate the theoretical contributions of one the most influential
scholars in linguistics.
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