Comparisons and Contrasts collects eleven of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic differences among languages to probe the properties of the human language faculty. INDICE: Preface; Acknowledgements; 1.: Some Preliminary Comparative Remarks on French and Italian Definite Articles; 2.: Several, Few and Many; 3.: ANote on the Syntax of Numerical Bases; 4.: On Parameters and on Principles ofPronunciation; 5.: A Short Note on where vs. place; 6.: Expletives, Datives, and the Tension between Morphology and Syntax; 7.: Some Silent First Person Plurals; 8.: A Note on Auxiliary Alternations and Silent Causation; 9.: Antisymmetry and the Lexicon; 10.: Why Isn't This a Complementizer?; 11.: Toward an Analysis of French Hyper-Complex Inversion (in collaboration with Jean-Yves Pollock); Bibliography; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-973251-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 26/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés