Author : Gert Webelhuth
Release : 1992
Genre : Foreign Language Study
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 385/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Principles and Parameters of Syntactic Saturation by : Gert Webelhuth
Download or read book Principles and Parameters of Syntactic Saturation written by Gert Webelhuth. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work represents the first full-scale attempt to provide a restrictive theory of parameters--the nature and limits of syntactic variation. Focusing on syntactic saturation, Webelhuth hypothesizes that in natural language these phenomena are subject to the "Saturation Condition." He explains the principles behind this condition and demonstrates how it imposes strong constraints on what counts as a possible parameter in natural language. Webelhuth goes on to test this theory against empirical evidence from seven modern Germanic languages: German, Dutch, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Icelandic.
