Studies on universal grammar and typological variation [electronic resource] / edited by Artemis Alexiadou, T. Alan Hall. - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c1997. - viii, 252 p. : ill. - Linguistik aktuell, v. 13 0166-0829 ; . - Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 13. .

Papers presented at a conference which was held Mar. 1994, Forschungsschwerpunkt Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Ger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Artemis Alexiadou & T. Alan Hall --Typological implications of a directionality constraint on projections / Hubert Haider -- Universal grammar and the typology of ergative languages / Anoop Mahajan -- Some properties of ellipsis in coordination / Chris Wilder -- Deriving the parameterisation of the mapping hypothesis / David Adger -- Syntactic dependencies and their properties : weak islands / M. Rita Manzini -- On extraction, argument binding and voice morphology in Malagasy / Paul Law -- Universals and minimalist features : checking in AgrO / Elly van Gelderen -- Genitive subjects and the VSO order / Jamal Ouhalla -- Some properties of clitics : with special reference to modern Greek / Gaberell Drachman.


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Grammar, Comparative and general--Congresses.
Typology (Linguistics)--Congresses.


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