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"Syntactic contrasts, the systems of grammatical oppositions that exist within individual languages, are typically formally encoded in terms of features. The nature of syntactic contrast is tied to a fundamental question in generative syntactic theory: What is universal in syntax (and in langua...

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Other Authors: Bjorkman, Bronwyn M. (Editor), Hall, Daniel Currie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 75.
Oxford linguistics.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Syntaxe.
Syntax.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Contrast and representations in syntax: introduction / Bronwyn M. Bjorkman, Daniel Currie Hall
  • A feature-geometric approach to verbal inflection in Onodaga / Gabriela Alboiu, Michael Barrie
  • Restricted and reversed aspectual contrasts / Andrew Carnie, Sylvia L. R. Schreiner
  • Sentience-based event structure: evidence from Blackfoot / Elizabeth Ritter
  • Definite expression and degrees of definiteness / Maria Kyriakaki
  • Cross-linguistic contrasts in the structure of causatives in clausal nominalizations / Martha McGinnis
  • The Tłı̨chǫ syntactic causative and non-nominal CPs / Leslie Saxon
  • Against some approaches to long-distance agreement without AGREE / Carson T. Schütze
  • Contrast in syntax and contrast in phonology: same difference? / Daniel Currie Hall.