A Note on Huave Morpheme Ordering: Local Dislocation or Generalized U20?

This chapter pursues the question whether postsyntactic reordering is a necessary component of UG (as in DM), or (can)not (be) (as in Antisymmetry). A typology of morpheme ordering is developed based on the typology of word order patterns characterized by

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tives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax Essays in Honor of R. Amritavalli

Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax

Gautam Sengupta Shruti Sircar Madhavi Gayathri Raman Rahul Balusu •

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Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax Essays in Honor of R. Amritavalli

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Editors Gautam Sengupta Center for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies University of Hyderabad Hyderabad, Telangana India

Madhavi Gayathri Raman Department of Materials Development, Testing and Evaluation The English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad, Telangana India

Shruti Sircar Department of Linguistics and Contemporary English The English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad, Telangana India

ISBN 978-981-10-4294-2 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4295-9

Rahul Balusu Department of Computational Linguistics The English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad, Telangana India

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Foreword

Raghavachari Amritavalli has made outstanding contributions to syntactic theory, the study of the interfaces, and the analysis of South Asian languages. She also focused on the acquisition of morpho-syntax and on language-related developmental pathologies, as well as on language teaching and education curricula. This volume honors Amritavalli’s contribution to the field through a collection of cutting-edge research papers ranging from syntactic theory and the morpho-syntax of South and East Asian languages, to the syntax–semantics int