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9 - Syntax in OLG

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2023

Daniel Galbraith
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Stanford University, California
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Chapter 9, the longest chapter, presents a step-by-step discussion of the OLG theory of syntax, focusing especially on issues of central concern to syntacticians: phrase structure, movement or filler-gap dependencies, and the architecture of grammar. A detailed walk-through of how to derive an English sentence is given, including formal definitions of syntactic features. Analyses of the range of typological variation observed in relevant word-order, case-marking and information-structural phenomena are presented from an OLG perspective, including detailed case studies of the Faroese clause structure facts presented in Chapter 2 and an in-depth treatment of object shift in Scandinavian languages. Ranking arguments, constraint definitions and factorial typologies are given where needed. Chapter 9 is intended to answer most of the major questions regarding how this theory handles a broader range of data.

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Optimal Linking Grammar
A Theory of Morphosyntax
, pp. 193 - 254
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Syntax in OLG
  • Daniel Galbraith, Stanford University, California
  • Book: Optimal Linking Grammar
  • Online publication: 20 April 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030663.009
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  • Syntax in OLG
  • Daniel Galbraith, Stanford University, California
  • Book: Optimal Linking Grammar
  • Online publication: 20 April 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030663.009
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  • Syntax in OLG
  • Daniel Galbraith, Stanford University, California
  • Book: Optimal Linking Grammar
  • Online publication: 20 April 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030663.009
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