Publications

Publication details [#30279]

Borsley, Robert D. and Ian Roberts. 1996. The syntax of the Celtic languages: A comparative perspective. Cambridge University Press. viii + 368 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | functional explanation | principles and parameters theory | syntax1 | word order

Language as a subject

Celtic

Annotation

This book provides a 'Principles and Parameters'-treatment of various syntactic phenomena in the modern Celtic languages. The issues addressed include word order, functional categories, quantification, clitics, morphology-syntax relations and optimality syntax.

Reviewed by

Manning, H. Paul. 1996. Review of $The syntax of the Celtic languages: A comparative perspective.