Titlebook: Universals of Language Today; Sergio Scalise,Elisabetta Magni,Antonietta Bisetto Book 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Synta

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Methods for Finding Language Universals in Syntax,between the two approaches are well known, less known but equally important is the fact that the methods used to find and justify syntactic universals are very different between the two approaches. The generative approach, illustrated here with Baker’s (2003) analysis of verbal vs. nonverbal predica

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The Fundamental Left-Right Asymmetry of Natural Languages, each case, it is shown that one and the same pattern is involved. The account proposed for such an asymmetry is based on a unique underlying structure for each head and the modifiers and functional heads associated with it, in interaction with independent conditions on phrasal movement.

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The Branching Direction Theory of Word Order Correlations Revisited,elations if one assumes much flatter constituent structures than those assumed in Dryer (1992a) and in much work in generative syntax. Some correlations that are not accounted for by the Branching Direction Theory if we assume flatter constituent structures, such as the order of article and noun, ca

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The Evolution of Latin Word (Dis)order,ipated by a gradual construction-by-construction reorientation of constituent order. As a matter of fact, since Early Latin coexisting patterns determine a kaleidoscopic surface complexity that makes it difficult to reduce this language to a coherent system. On the assumption that the typology of wo

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Typological Universals and Second Language Acquisition,on by Joseph Greenberg in his 1991 article: the contribution of L2 research to linguistic theorizing, the nature vs. history dichotomy, the relation between second languages and pidginization processes. Next, I point out the relevance of typological universals to accounts of learner behavior. Finall

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Universals and Semantics,ntive universals), the nature of the mapping between syntactic categories and notional categories, the role of grammatical features in pre-encoding interpretive operations. It is argued that consensus about semantic universals can be reached cutting across the artificial divide between functionalist and formalist approaches to human language.