Chapter 6. Where does crazy syntax come from?

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Chapter 6
Where does crazy syntax come from?

Published online: 7 March 2018

Article outline

6.1Introduction
6.2Crazy synchronic phonology
6.3Case studies
- 6.3.1The Kimbundu passive revisited
- 6.3.2The Kihungan cleft and WH-question revisited
- 6.3.3German rel-clauses revisited
- 6.3.4Some unintended consequences of compressing chained clauses into serial-verb clauses
  - 6.3.4.1The ba-marked object construction in Mandarin Chinese
  - 6.3.4.2The de-verbal conjunction of Yoruba
  - 6.3.4.3Word-order in Ijo
- 6.3.5German word-order and tense-aspect renovation
- 6.3.6The Romance and Bantu object pronouns
- 6.3.7No. Uto-Aztecan nominalized subordinate clauses
6.4Discussion
- 6.4.1Naturalness: Commonality vs. ease of processing
- 6.4.2The temporal curve of the diachronic cycle
- 6.4.3Naturalness: Synchrony vs. diachrony
Notes
Abbreviation of grammatical terms