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Book SynopsisThis book explores how grammatical oppositions - for instance, the contrast between present and past tense - are encoded in the syntax of natural languages. The chapters approach the topic from a range of perspectives, drawing on data from a variety of typologically diverse languages, including Blackfoot, Greek, Onondaga, and Scottish Gaelic.
Table of Contents1: Bronwyn M. Bjorkman and Daniel Currie Hall: Contrast and representations in syntax: Introduction Part I: Features in the inflectional spine 2: Gabriela Alboiu and Michael Barrie: A feature-geometric approach to verbal inflection in Onondaga 3: Andrew Carnie and Sylvia L. R. Schreiner: Restricted and reversed aspectual contrasts 4: Elizabeth Ritter: Sentience-based event structure: Evidence from Blackfoot Part II: Contrast in the argument domain 5: Maria Kyriakaki: Definite expression and degrees of definiteness 6: Martha McGinnis: Cross-linguistic contrasts in the structure of causatives in clausal nominalizations 7: Leslie Saxon: The Tlicho syntactic causative and non-nominal CPs Part III: Architectural questions 8: Carson T. Schütze: Against some approaches to long-distance agreement without AGREE 9: Daniel Currie Hall: Contrast in syntax and contrast in phonology: Same difference?
