Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VI, 526 S.) :
,
graph. Darst.
ISBN:
978-3-11-090222-8
Series Statement:
Studies in generative grammar 83
Content:
The authors of this volume analyze Older Egyptian, Coptic, Sumerian, Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Greek, Latin, and Classical Sanskrit as instantiations of Universal Grammar, which enables them to explain descriptive problems that proved to be unsolvable for traditional, inductive approaches. The ancient languages examined, some of which were spoken as much as 5000 years ago, also provide crucial new data for syntactic and morphosyntactic theory - concerning e.g. discourse-motivated movement operations, the correlation of movement and agreement, a shift from lexical case to structural case marking, the licensing of structural case in infinitives, the structure of coordinated phrases, possessive constructions with an external possessor, and the role of event structure in syntax
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-11-018550-8
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 3-11-018550-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Tote Sprache
;
Universalgrammatik
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783110902228
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
Author information:
Kiss, Katalin É. 1949-
