Word order type and syntactic structure
Word order type and syntactic structure
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词序类型和句法结构
DOI:
10.1075/livy.1.04jul
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发表时间:
2001
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通讯作者:
Marit Julien
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Marit Julien
The central claim of this paper is that languages of one and the same word order type do not necessarily have the same IP syntax. For example, among verb-final languages two rather different syntactic types can be distinguished. The majority of verb-final languages are head-final in IP, in the sense that every projection in the IP domain has its complement to its left in the surface order. This is seen here as the result of repeated movement of complement to the nearest Spec. In other verb-final languages, the surface order is simply a result of argument movement. The projections in IP still have their complements to their right. It is further suggested that the class of verb-initial languages may be divided in two along similar lines. Finally, the non-existence of SVO languages with inflectional markers in front of the subject is taken as support for the idea that in the absence of strong features in IP, the c(omplement)-features of the heads in IP take effect, thereby yielding head-final IP structure.