Beschreibung:
David Adger is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. Daniel Harbour is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. Laurel J. Watkins is Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics in the Department of Anthropology at Colorado College.
Looks at the nature of free word order and phrase structure, with particular reference to a single endangered language Kiowa.
1. Introduction; 2. Nonconfigurationality and polysynthesis; 3. The clausal spin; 4. Making mirrors; 5. Interface properties of clausal domains; 6. Anti-quantification and the syntax-semantics interface; 7. Conclusion.