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Books in the OXFORD STUDIES COMPARATIVE SYNTAX SERIES series

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  • by Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa) Jiang, Li Julie (Assistant Professor & et al.
    £49.49

  • - A Theory of Wh- Prosody
    by The Graduate Center, Associate Professor of Linguistics, City University of New York) Kandybowicz & et al.
    £47.99 - 85.99

    Through original and highly detailed fieldwork on five under-studied languages of West Africa, Jason Kandybowicz develops a novel theory of the interaction between the distribution of interrogative expressions and the sound system of a language. The book also considers data from thirteen additional typologically diverse languages to demonstrate the theory's reach and extendibility.

  • by New York University) Collins, Professor of Linguistics, Chris (Professor of Linguistics, et al.
    £61.49 - 106.99

    One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. This book investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling, in which displacement occurs in two steps thus allowing for otherwise inaccessible movement operations.

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    £51.99

    In Parameters of Predicate Fronting, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and Dennis Ott bring together leaders in the field of comparative syntax to explore the empirical manifestations and theoretical modelling of predicate fronting across languages. Including analysis of English, German, Malagasy, Niuean, Ch'ol, Asante, Twi, Limbum, Krachi, Hebrew, and multiple sign languages, this volume takes researchers one step closer to a complete understanding of the uniformity andvariation in predicate fronting across languages.

  • - Comparative Syntax of Arabic
    by Georgetown University) Alqassas, Ahmad (Associate Professor of Arabic Linguistics & Associate Professor of Arabic Linguistics
    £44.99 - 97.99

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