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dc.identifier	ECF_article_369
dc.title	More Languages Than We Might Have Thought. Fewer Languages Than There Might Have Been
dc.contributor.author	Kayne Richard
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2016/1/more-languages-than-we-might-have-thought-fewer-la/
dc.description.abstract	In working toward an understanding of the syntactic component of the human language faculty, syntacticians necessarily ask question after question. One prominent question is: (1) What properties do all languages have in common? A related question is: (2) How exactly do languages vary in their syntax and what are the principled limits on that variation?
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 50 \| September 2016
dc.issued	2016-09-30
dc.dateAccepted	2016-07-07
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-04-18
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-1562
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2499-1562/AnnOc-50-16-10
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Dialects
dc.subject	Dialects
dc.subject	Languages
dc.subject	Languages
dc.subject	Syntax
dc.subject	Syntax
dc.subject	Variation
dc.subject	Variation

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More Languages Than We Might Have Thought. Fewer Languages Than There Might Have Been

Richard Kayne New York University, USA

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abstract

In working toward an understanding of the syntactic component of the human language faculty, syntacticians necessarily ask question after question. One prominent question is: (1) What properties do all languages have in common? A related question is: (2) How exactly do languages vary in their syntax and what are the principled limits on that variation?

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Sept. 30, 2016

Accepted

July 7, 2016

Submitted

April 18, 2016

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Keywords: Variation • Languages • Dialects • Syntax

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