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Verb Movement and the Syntax of Kashmiri (STUDIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY Volume 46) (edit title/settings)

by Rakesh Mohan Bhatt (Author) (edit contributors)

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This book investigates the phenomenon of verb-second in a language outside the Germanic family, a relatively unknown and unanalyzed Indo-Aryan language called Kashmiri. Kashmiri is unique in that it exhibits both the German/Dutch type of verb-second as well as the Yiddish/Icelandic type.... read more

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During the past decade, the study of the properties of head (Xo) movement has yielded theoretically significant explanations of the generalizations that underlie a range of superficially diverse syntactic phenomena, e.g., the word order differences between English and French (Pollock 1989), noun incorporation in Bantu (Baker 1988), and finite verb movement in Germanic languages (Haider & Prinzhorn 1986, Lightfoot & Hornstein 1994).

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