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A Syntax of Serbian: Clausal Architecture
Progovac (linguistics, Wayne State U.) examines the functional projections of the clause in Serbian, in an effort to tie together the description and explanation of syntactic phenomena in Serbian with the theory of Universal Grammar. Coverage includes a basic overview of word order possibilities in Serbian, and basic movement rules; polarity phrases in Serbian and evidence of the existence of two such phrases; analysis of tense phrases and agreement phrases which suggests that they come in two layers/manifestations--subject and object; description and analysis of the perfective/imperfective patterns of Serbian aspect; second-position cliticization; negation and polarity; and the event pronominal to. For specialists in Slavic languages and linguists in mainstream syntactic theory. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
245 pages, Paperback
Published November 11, 2005
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