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Inflectional features and clausal structure

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Author

Editor

  • Jussi Niemi
  • Janne Heikkinen

Summary, in English

This paper discusses the relation between verbal inflection and clausal structure, making the claim, based on evidence from Icelandic finite verb inflection, that formal verbal features, such as Number, Person, Tense and Mood, each represents (or corresponds to) a functional head in clausal structure. More generally, the paper claims that there is a one-to-one correspondance between formal features and functional heads in Universal Grammar, that is to say, narrow syntax universally complies to distributed heading, whereas compact heading is confined to (morpho)phonological form, hence giving rise to cross-linguistic variation.

Publishing year

2001

Language

English

Pages

99-111

Publication/Series

Nordic and Baltic morphology : papers from a NorFA course, Tartu, June 2000

Volume

36

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

University of Joensuu

Topic

  • Specific Languages

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1456-5528
  • ISBN: 952-458-005-5