Inflectional features and clausal structure
Författare
Redaktör
- Jussi Niemi
- Janne Heikkinen
Summary, in English
This paper discusses the relation between verbal inflection and clausal structure, making the claim, based on evidence from Icelandic finite verb inflection, that formal verbal features, such as Number, Person, Tense and Mood, each represents (or corresponds to) a functional head in clausal structure. More generally, the paper claims that there is a one-to-one correspondance between formal features and functional heads in Universal Grammar, that is to say, narrow syntax universally complies to distributed heading, whereas compact heading is confined to (morpho)phonological form, hence giving rise to cross-linguistic variation.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2001
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
99-111
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Nordic and Baltic morphology : papers from a NorFA course, Tartu, June 2000
Volym
36
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Dokumenttyp
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Förlag
University of Joensuu
Ämne
- Specific Languages
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1456-5528
- ISBN: 952-458-005-5