Formal theory of word order: a case study in West Germanic
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Reape, Mike
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2018-01-31T11:24:04Z
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2018-01-31T11:24:04Z
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1994
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This thesis has three primary goals . The first goal is to provide a treatrnent of bounded discontinuous constituency and word order in genera! and semi-free word order in particular. Bounded discontinuous constituency is taken to mean the kind of category-bounded discontinuity typically found in the German Mittelfeld and in Dutch "cross-serial'' dependency constructions. It does not mean unbounded dependencies such as wh-movement. The second goal is to provide an alternative account of cross-linguistic variation in word order (particularly in West Germanic) to the Principles and Parameters approach of Government and Binding Theory. The third goal is to formalise the account in a single homogeneous logical formalism which is not based on rewrite rules or other formal language theoretic machinery.
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http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26867
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The University of Edinburgh
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Annexe Thesis Digitisation Project 2017 Block 15
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dc.title
Formal theory of word order: a case study in West Germanic
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A formal theory of word order: a case study in West Germanic
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Thesis or Dissertation
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dc.type.qualificationlevel
Doctoral
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PhD Doctor of Philosophy
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