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Deconstructing functionalist explanations of linguistic universals
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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Contributors ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
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Part I
- On the significance of Eloise Jelinek’s Pronominal Argument Hypothesis 11
- Categories and pronominal arguments 45
- Doubling by Agreement in Slave (Northern Athapaskan) 51
- Quasi objects in St’át’imcets 79
- Agreement, dislocation, and partial configurationality 107
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Part II
- Multiple multiple questions 135
- Attitude evaluation in complex NPs 155
- Topic-Focus articulation and degrees of salience in the Prague Dependency Treebank 165
- Word order and discourse genre in Tohono O’odham 179
- The prosody of interrogative and focus constructions in Navajo 191
- Subject number agreement, grammaticalization, and transitivity in the Cupeño verb construction 207
- Lexical irregularity in OT 227
- Rapid perceptibility as a factor underlying universals of vowel inventories 245
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Part III
- Argument hierarchies and the mapping principle 265
- Focus movement and the nature of uninterpretable features 297
- Merge 307
- Phonotactics and probabilistic ranking 319
- Deconstructing functionalist explanations of linguistic universals 333
- References 353
- Name index 369
- Subject index 371
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Contributors ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
-
Part I
- On the significance of Eloise Jelinek’s Pronominal Argument Hypothesis 11
- Categories and pronominal arguments 45
- Doubling by Agreement in Slave (Northern Athapaskan) 51
- Quasi objects in St’át’imcets 79
- Agreement, dislocation, and partial configurationality 107
-
Part II
- Multiple multiple questions 135
- Attitude evaluation in complex NPs 155
- Topic-Focus articulation and degrees of salience in the Prague Dependency Treebank 165
- Word order and discourse genre in Tohono O’odham 179
- The prosody of interrogative and focus constructions in Navajo 191
- Subject number agreement, grammaticalization, and transitivity in the Cupeño verb construction 207
- Lexical irregularity in OT 227
- Rapid perceptibility as a factor underlying universals of vowel inventories 245
-
Part III
- Argument hierarchies and the mapping principle 265
- Focus movement and the nature of uninterpretable features 297
- Merge 307
- Phonotactics and probabilistic ranking 319
- Deconstructing functionalist explanations of linguistic universals 333
- References 353
- Name index 369
- Subject index 371