Welsh Syntax by Louisa Sadler

Welsh Syntax by Louisa Sadler

This book, first published in 1988, proposes an analysis of Welsh syntax within the theory of Government and Binding (GB). The main focus of the study is the theory of empty elements and the role of agreement phenomena in relation to empty categories.

The study of the Celtic family of languages has emerged as an increasingly fruitful area of research both inside and outside GB theory. Written within the GB framework, this book provides a substantial description of some areas of Welsh syntax. Successive chapters deal with basic word order in main and embedded clauses, the null subject constructions, cliticisation and agreement, relative clauses, topicalisation and wh-questions, and passivisation. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

Sadler, Louisa: - Louisa Sadler is professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex, where she has taught courses at graduate and undergraduate level on syntactic theory (lexical-functional grammar - LFG and Head-driven phrase structure grammar - HPSG), the description of English, semantics, argument structure, morphology, PROLOG and computational linguistics. She has been involved in a number of research projects using LFG with a number of languages, including Welsh, Archi and Portuguese. Her current research interests centre on LFG, syntax and its interfaces to morphology and semantics and the grammatical description of the Arabic vernaculars, including Maltese. She currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for research on Arabic syntax.

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ISBN 13	9781138698536
ISBN 10	1138698539
Title	Welsh Syntax
Author	Louisa Sadler
Series	Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2016-10-12
Number of pages	284
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