Movement in Language: Interactions and Architectures

By Norvin Richards

Book Overview

This is the most comprehensive, integrated explanation ever published of the properties of question formations and their variations across languages. Movement in Language develops a new set of arguments for the controversial claim that syntax should be understood derivationally; that is, that
the best model of language is one in which sentences are constructed in a series of operations that precede or follow each other in time. The arguments are exemplified through reference to a number of languages, including Bulgarian, Japanese, English, Chinese, and Serbo-Croatian.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199246513
• ISBN13: 9780199246519
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"