Typological Studies Word Order and Relative Clauses [Paperback]

In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis ? vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis ? vis his object; a general cross-linguistic analysis of correlatives; the need to distinguish a sentence-grammar, from a discourse-grammar, type of non-restrictives (with languages differing as to whether they possess both, one, the other, or neither); a selective type of extraction from relative clauses; and a tentative sketch of a more ample work in progress on a unified analysis of externally headed, internally headed, and headless relative clauses.

Introduction  1. Word Order Typology: A Change of Perspective 2. The Antisymmetric Programme: Theoretical and Typological Implications  3. Greenbergs Universal 20 and the Semitic DP  4. Deriving Greenbergs Universal 20 and Its Exceptions  5. Again on Tense, Aspect, Mood morpheme order and the Mirror Principle  6. Mapping Spatial PPs: An Introduction  7.  The Fundamental Left-Right Asymmetry of Natural Languages 8. Are all languages Numeral Classifier Languages?  9. Greenbergs Universal 23 and SVO Languages  10. On Keenan and Comrie's Primary Relativization Constraint  11. A Note on Verb/Object Order and Head/Relative Clause Order  12. A Note on Linguistic Theory and Typology  13. More on the Indefinite Character of the Head of Restrictive Relatives  14. Two Types of Nonrestrictive Relatives  15. Five Notes on Correlatives  16. On a selective violation of the Complex NP Constraint  17. On Double-Headed Relative Clauses

Guglielmo Cinqueis Full Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Venice. He also taught, as a visitilÄ