Typological Studies

<p>In this book Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis à vis his object; a general cross-linguistic analysis of correlatives; the need to distinguish a sentence-grammar from a discourse-grammar type of non-restrictives (with languages differing as to whether they possess both one the other or neither); a selective type of extraction from relative clauses; and a tentative sketch of a more ample work in progress on a unified analysis of externally headed internally headed and headless relative clauses.</p>