Correlatives cross-linguistically / edited by Anikó Lipták.

This volume brings together recent work in generative syntax on correlative relative constructions. Greatly expanding on the Hindi-oriented scope of previous studies, it describes and analyzes correlative constructions in a range of languages, such as Basque, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Sanskrit, Serb...

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Other Authors: Lipták, Anikó Klára, 1973-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Series:Language faculty and beyond ; v. 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • The landscape of correlatives : an empirical and analytical survey / Anikó Lipták
  • What don't wh-questions, free relatives, and correlatives have in common? / Barbara Citko
  • Basque correlatives and their kin in the history of northern Basque / Georges Rebuschi
  • {Relative {conditional {correlative clauses}}} / Boban Arsenijević
  • Relatively different : Italian sign language relative clauses in a typological perspective / Chiara Branchini and Caterina Donati
  • The syntax of the Tibetan correlative / Seth Cable
  • Adjunction, features and locality in Sanskrit and Hindi/Urdu correlatives / Alice Davison
  • Comparative correlatives and successive cyclicity / Marcel den Dikken
  • On the matching requirement in correlatives / Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung
  • Matching effects in the temporal and locative domains / Rajesh Bhatt and Anikó Lipták.