Symmetry breaking in syntax/
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in linguistics
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Table of Contents:
- Preface List of abbreviations 1. What breaks the symmetry in syntactic structuring 2.Linearizations are public, structures are private 3. BBC – asymmetry in phrase structuring 4. The cross-linguistic impact of the BBC 5.The Germanic OV/VO split 6. Adverbial positions in VO and in OV 7. Elements of the third kind – resultative predicates and particles in OV and VO 8 . Asymmetry in nominal structures – word and phrase structure 9. BBC or LCA? – fact finding and evaluation. Bibliography Index.