Locative Inversion and the Architecture of Universal Grammar  

Oleh:

Bresnan, Joan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 70 no. 1 (1994), page 72-131.
Fulltext: Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 72-131.pdf (1.23MB)

Isi artikel

Locative inversion in English and Chichewa shows remarkable similarities which can be explained by hypothesizing the same underlying argument structures and principles for mapping argument structure roles into syntactic functions. However, the alignment of roles with syntactic categories reflects a profound typological difference between the two languages: Chichewa categorizes locatives in a gender class system; English, in an abstract case-like system. The resulting syntactic differences defy analyses within a widely-assumed architecture of Universal Grammar and support the alternative adopted by Bresnan & Kanerva 1989.*

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