Readership: Scholars and students of syntax and general linguistics at graduate level and above
Irina Nikolaeva, School of Oriental and African Studies
"The book's value lies in the fact that it broadens our perspective on finiteness by providing ample discussion of 'exceptional' configurations, such as non-finite forms used in independent clauses or inflected infinitives." - Anne Breitbarch, The Journal of Linguistics
1: Irina Nikolaeva: Introduction Part I Finiteness in Formal Theories 2: David Adger: Three Domains of Finiteness: A Minimalist Perspective 3: Peter Sells: Finiteness in Non-Transformational Syntactic Frameworks Part II Finiteness in Functional Theories and Typology 4: Sonia Cristofaro: Deconstructing Finiteness: Finiteness in a Functional-Typological Perspective 5: Walter Bisang: Categories That Make Finiteness: Discreteness From a Functional Perspective and Some of its Repercussions 6: Irina Nikolaeva: Constructional Economy and Nonfinite Independent Clauses Part III Finiteness in Individual Languages 7: Elena Kalinina and Nina Sumbatova: Clausse Structure and Verbal Forms in Nakh-Daghestanian Languages 8: David M. Perlmutter: In What Ways can Finite and Non-Finite Clauses Differ? Evidence from Russian 9: Jaklin Kornfilt: Verbal and Nominalised Finite Clauses in Turkish Part IV Finiteness in Diachrony and Language Acquisition 10: Adam Ledgeway: Diachrony and Finiteness: Subordination in the Dialects of Southern Italy 11: Nicholas Evans: Insubordination and its uses 12: Petra Gretsch and Clive Perdue: Finiteness in L1 and L2 Acquisition References Subject Index Author Index
