Finiteness Matters
On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages
Editor
| Norwegian University of Science and Technology
"Although standardly recognized by linguists of many diverse theoretical persuasions, finiteness continues to figure among [...] the most poorly understood concepts of linguistic theory”. This was eloquently stated by Ledgeway (2000, 2007) and remains true even today. The present volume thus aims to shed some much needed light on this area of linguistic theorizing, with eleven chapters approaching finiteness phenomena from the fields of syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and Creole studies, and providing data from a range of different languages. Traditionally, approaches to finiteness within the Principles and Parameters framework have seen as their main aim to understand the relation between the morphological exponents of finiteness and the syntactic operations seemingly depending on these exponents. The papers in this volume mostly take their point of departure from this more traditional view on finiteness, before elaborating on, modifying and diverging from this tradition in novel and interesting ways.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 231] 2016. vi, 346 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
1–44
|
|
Part I: Finiteness: underlying relations
|
|
47–78
|
|
79–92
|
|
93–120
|
|
121–168
|
|
Part II: Morphosyntactic exponents of (non-)finiteness
|
|
171–188
|
|
189–210
|
|
211–254
|
|
Part III: Finiteness in language acquisition
|
|
257–286
|
|
287–308
|
|
309–342
|
|
Index
|
343–346
|
“Integrating syntactic theory, cross-linguistic variation, and acquisition, this is the most wide ranging and up-to-date set of studies available on the concept of finiteness.”
David Adger, Queen Mary University London
Cited by
Cited by 1 other publications
MITROFANOVA, Natalia & Marit WESTERGAARD
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 17 december 2018. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.
Subjects
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General