Description: An argument for the universal syntactic nature of the composition of manner and motion in human languages; with a wealth of empirical evidence from Germanic, Korean, and Romance languages.
Brief description: Eunjeong Oh is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics at Korea University.
Review Quotes: "Zubizarreta and Oh give us an exemplary study of how to approach crosslinguistic phenomena with explanatory tools. Their work establishes compelling connections between a construction of theoretical significance on the one hand, and the independent properties of syntactic computation and grammatical variations on the other. It is a remarkable contribution to theories of syntax and semantics, with important implications for the study of morphology and language acquisition as well."--Charles Yang, University of Pennsylvania, author of "Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language" and "The Infinite Gift"