Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish

by Peter Sells

Book Overview

This volume explores the grammatical structure of sentences in Swedish, presenting an account of the order of the words and phrases within the clause. This analysis is presented from the perspective of Optimality Theory within the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. This framework provides syntactic analysis in terms of functions within the clause such as subject, object, and also topic and focus, as well as part-of-speech analysis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575862328
• ISBN13: 9781575862323
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 11.6"