In:Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages
Edited by Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley and Sheila Dooley
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 73] 2005
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Published online: 17 February 2005
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.73.toc
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Table of contents
Contributorsvii
Acknowledgmentsix
Abbreviationsxi
Introduction: When verbs come first
Part I. VP movement vs Head-movement
What fronts? On the VP-raising account of verb-initial order
Coordination and constituency in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish)
Two derivations of VSO: A comparative study of Niuean and Tongan
Force first: Clause-fronting and clause typing in San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec
V1 and wh-questions: a typology
Preverbal particles in verb-initial languages
A note on predicates and heads in Irish clausal syntax
Seediq: Antisymmetry and final particles in a Formosan VOS language
VP-internal structure in a VOS language
Part II. Categories, Information Structure, and Prosodic factors
Lexical categories, lack of inflection, and predicate-fronting in Niuean
Word order without syntactic categories: How Riau Indonesian does it
Nominal properties of vPs in Breton: A hypothesis for the typology of VSO languages
On the parallelism of DPs and clauses: Evidence from Kisongo Maasai
Ordering clitics and postverbal R-expressions in Tagalog: a unified analysis?
The syntax of Chalcatongo Mixtec: Preverbal and postverbal
Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language
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