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Verb movement / edited by David Lightfoot and Norbert Hornstein. - Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994. - xi, 388 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-382) and index.

Verb movement: an introduction / David Lightfoot and Norbert Hornstein -- 1. Verb positions: evidence from Italian / Adriana Belletti -- 2. Verb movement and word order in Arabic / Jamal Ouhalla -- 3. Comments on the paper by Ouhalla / Peter Coopmans -- 4. Some similarities and differences between Icelandic and Yiddish / Beatrice Santorini -- 5. Comments on the paper by Santorini / Kjartan Ottosson -- 6. Finite verb movement in Scandinavian embedded clauses / Sten Vikner -- 7. Comments on the paper by Vikner / Hoskuldur Thrainsson -- 8. The Brythonic copula and head raising / Randall Hendrick -- 9. A reinterpretation of evidence for verb movement in French / Edwin Williams -- 10. Two types of head movement in Romance / Ian Roberts -- 11. Comments on the paper by Roberts / Sabine Iatridou -- 12. Licensing heads / Hilda Koopman -- 13. Comments on the paper by Koopman / Juan Uriagereka -- 14. Finiteness and head movement in early child grammars / Ken Wexler. 15. Comments on the paper by Wexler / Amy Weinberg.

ISBN: 0521450411 0521456614 (pbk.)

LCCN: 93005481

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
Generative grammar.

Index Terms--Curriculum Objective:
Language.

LC Class. No.: P281 / .V367 1994

Dewey Class. No.: 415 LIT