In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis à vis his object; a general cross-linguistic analysis of correlatives; the need to distinguish a sentence-grammar, from a discourse-grammar, type of non-restrictives (with languages differing as to whether they possess both, one, the other, or neither); a selective type of extraction from relative clauses; and a tentative sketch of a more ample work in progress on a unified analysis of externally headed, internally headed, and headless relative clauses.
Introduction
1. Word Order Typology: A Change of Perspective 2. The
Antisymmetric Programme: Theoretical and Typological Implications
3.
Greenbergs Universal 20 and the Semitic DP
4. Deriving Greenbergs
Universal 20 and Its Exceptions
5. Again on Tense, Aspect, Mood morpheme
order and the Mirror Principle 6. Mapping Spatial PPs: An Introduction
7. The Fundamental Left-Right Asymmetry of Natural Languages 8. Are all
languages Numeral Classifier Languages?
9. Greenbergs Universal 23 and
SVO Languages
10. On Keenan and Comrie's Primary Relativization Constraint
11. A Note on Verb/Object Order and Head/Relative Clause Order
12. A Note on
Linguistic Theory and Typology
13. More on the Indefinite Character of the
Head of Restrictive Relatives
14. Two Types of Nonrestrictive Relatives
15.
Five Notes on Correlatives
16. On a selective "violation" of the Complex NP
Constraint
17. On Double-Headed Relative Clauses
Guglielmo Cinque is Full Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Venice. He also taught, as a visiting professor, at the Universities of Vienna (1985/86), Geneva (1989/90) Harvard (1997/98), UCLA (2002/03), Brussels (2010/2011). He is co-editor of the Rivista di grammatica generativa, and is in the editorial board of various linguistics journals (among which, The Linguistic Review and Studia Linguistica), and linguistics book series (among which Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Dordrecht, Kluwer, Linguistik Aktuell, Amsterdam, Benjamins). He is honorary professor of the University of Bucharest and honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America. He has worked, and continues to work, in the fields of syntactic theory, romance linguistics, and comparative syntax, and has published volumes in these areas with MIT Press, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press.
