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Michelle Sheehan, Theresa Biberauer, Ian Roberts, and Anders Holmberg. 2017.The Final-Over-Final Condition: A Syntactic Universal. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Pp. 446. $102.84 (softcover).
The book under review puts forward a syntactic constraint called the final-over-final condition (FOFC), which is presented as a reflection of the asymmetry of the syntax of natural language. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the constraint. Chapter 2 provides empirical evidence for the constraint. Chapter 3 demonstrates the pervasiveness of the constraint across categories. Chapter 4 discusses the FOFC in relation to structure and linear order. Chapter 5 explores the hypothesis that the FOFC is a constraint on speech processing. Chapter 6 extends FOFC to adjuncts. Chapter 7 explores the idea that William’s Head-Final Filter (1982) might be subsumed under the FOFC. Chapter 8 is an exploration of the FOFC in the nominal domain. Chapter 9 tackles apparent counter-examples to the FOFC. Chapter 10 discusses the FOFC in free word order languages. Chapter 11 discusses the FOFC in morphology. What the FOFC is. The FOFC is, according to Sheehan, Biberauer, Roberts and Holmberg (2017), a condition which describes an asymmetry in natural language. Consider the syntactic configurations in (1):
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The Canadian Journal of Linguistics publishes articles of original research in linguistics in both English and French. The articles deal with linguistic theory, linguistic description of natural languages, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, first and second language acquisition, and other areas of interest to linguists.