What is a language? What do scientific grammars tell us about the structure of individual languages and human language in general? What kind of science is lingu

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This book focuses on the role size plays in grammar. Under the umbrella term size fall the size of syntactic projections, the size of feature content, and the s

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Information structure is a relatively new field to linguistics and has only recently been studied for smaller and less described languages. This book is the fir