Generative Approaches to Syntactic Typology
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2001
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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Abstract
This thesis aims to be a limited exploration of the field of syntactic typology,
examining critically two different proposals that have been made for classifying
languages in different subfields of syntax. It is my contention that neither of these
widely accepted classifications is really workable, as both attempt to treat problems in
one area of syntax independently of that area's interactions with other syntactic rules. I
find that the treatment of any given area of syntax must generally be dependent on
assumptions about the proper theoretical description of other areas of syntax, and thus
that any typological theory with such limited scope is bound to fail.