The Derivation of VO and OV

 Content: THE DERIVATION OF VO AND OV; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Word Order, Restructuring and Mirror Theory; OV is More Basic than VO; Remnant Movement and OV Order; V-movement and VP-movement in Derivations Leading to VO order; Deriving OV Order in Finnish; Parameter Change in Icelandic; The Right Periphery in SOV Languages: English and Dutch; Nominal Structure: An Extension of the Symmetry Principle; Quantifier Movement in Icelandic; Licensing Movement and Stranding in the West Germanic OV Languages; Two Types of VO Languages; Index.
 Abstract:             
              This volume grew out a workshop held at the University of Tromso in May 1998. It contains 11 papers dealing with various aspects of the differences between VO and OV languages, especially with the derivation of one or the other or both from the same or different base structures.                 Read more...