On Linearization Toward a Restrictive Theory

• Main Author: Cinque, Guglielmo (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2023
• Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs 86
• Subjects: Grammar, syntax & morphology; Lexicography; Historical & comparative linguistics; linearization; externalization; word order variation; nominal projection; restrictive theory, restrictive
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The first attempt at a restrictive theory of the linear order of sentences and phrases of the world's languages, by one of the founders of cartographic syntax.Linearization, or the typical sequence of words in a sentence, varies tremendously from language to language. Why, for example, does the...