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Incomplete Category Fronting

Author : Gereon Müller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401718644
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Incomplete Category Fronting written by Gereon Müller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incomplete Category Fronting is a detailed investigation of the syntax of incomplete category fronting in German, carried out from a cross-linguistic perspective. The study presents a wealth of empirical evidence involving unbound traces created by remnant topicalization, wh-movement, scrambling, left dislocation, and extraposition. Four characteristic properties of remnant movement are identified that pose severe problems for a representational movement theory. It is argued that these properties can be fruitfully addressed on the basis of Chomsky's minimalist program, and that they follow from a derivational movement theory that incorporates the Barriers Condition, the Strict Cycle Condition, Fewest Steps, Last Resort, and the Minimal Link Condition but completely dispenses with surface filters. Incomplete Category Fronting provides an empirical underpinning for the minimalist program and presents a powerful argument for a derivational theory of grammar. Audience: Incomplete Category Fronting will interest all linguists working on theoretical syntax, Germanic syntax or the syntax-semantics interface.

Incomplete Category Fronting

Author : Gereon Muller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789401718653
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Incomplete Category Fronting written by Gereon Muller and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Incomplete category fronting

Author : Gereon Müller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 369 pages
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Download or read book Incomplete category fronting written by Gereon Müller and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Minimality Effects in Syntax

Author : Arthur Stepanov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110197367
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Minimality Effects in Syntax written by Arthur Stepanov and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is a collection of 12 papers which focus on empirical and theoretical issues associated with syntactic phenomena falling under the rubric of Relativized Minimality (Rizzi 1990) or, in more recent terms, Minimal Link Condition (MLC, Chomsky 1995). The bulk of the papers are based on the ideas presented at the Workshop "Minimal Link Effects in Minimalist and Optimality Theoretic Syntax" which took place at the University of Potsdam on March 21-22, 2002. All contributors are prominent specialists in the topic of syntactic Minimality. The empirical phenomena brought to bear on Minimality/MLC in the present volume include, but not limited to: Superiority effects in multiple wh-questions, including those with 'D-linked' wh-phrase(s) (Müller, Haida, Haider) Stylistic Fronting in Germanic and Romance (Fisher, Poole) Transitive sentences in Hindi-type ergative languages (Stepanov) Word order 'freezing' effects in double-nominative constructions in Korean (Lee) Double object constructions in Greek (Anagnostoupoulou) Remnant constituent displacement in German and Japanese (Hale and Legendre) Nine of the proposed accounts are couched in the Minimalist framework (Chomsky 1995, 2000, 2001), three in the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). Thematically, the contributions divide into three groups addressing the following major questions: How can apparent violations of syntactic Minimality/MLC be accounted for? (Haida, Stepanov, Poole, Fisher, Anagnostopoulou) What is the status of MLC? Is it a primitive or a theorem in the grammar? (Müller, Fanselow, Lechner, Vogel, Lee, Haider) Can Minimality phenomena shed decisive evidence in favor of a derivational (Minimalist type) or a representational (Optimality theory like) framework? (Hale and Legendre, Haider)

Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar

Author : Anne-Marie Di Sciullo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027255776
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar by : Anne-Marie Di Sciullo

Download or read book Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar written by Anne-Marie Di Sciullo and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the interaction of grammar with the factors reducing complexity. This book aims to bring about further understanding of the interfaces of the grammar in a broader biolinguistic sense. It anchors the formal properties of grammar at the interfaces between language and biology, language and experience, bringing about language acquisition.

Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form

Author : Gema Chocano
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027233738
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (337 download)

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Book Synopsis Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form by : Gema Chocano

Download or read book Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form written by Gema Chocano and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Scrambling', the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic 'Object Shift'. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. Given that its main conclusions are drawn from German data, it also sheds light on several problematic aspects of the grammar of this language, which have traditionally resisted a principled account. Prominent among these are: the inconsistent behaviour of German coherent infinitives with respect to extraction of their internal arguments; the existence of a less 'liberal' type of 'Scrambling' within topicalised VPs; the link between reordering possibilities and headfinalness; the asymmetry exhibited by monotransitive and ditransitive structures with respect to the interaction between 'Scrambling' and the unmarked word order, and, finally, certain anomalies in the reordering of the lower arguments of ditransitive predicates that assign inherent case.

Dimensions of Movement

Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027227690
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Dimensions of Movement written by Artemis Alexiadou and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative research into the properties of phrasal and feature movement, which explore these key syntactic phenomena from different angles and across languages. The papers advance or build on models of movement which capitalize either on generalized feature movement or on generalized remnant movement. Both these approaches attempt to develop a restrictive theory of movement aiming at a simplification of the operations of the computational system. Despite the fact that they are so different technically, generalized feature movement and generalized remnant movement both push the theory of movement to the same direction in two important respects: (a) Elimination of head movement. (b) Elimination of covert movement. The book is of primary interest to researchers and students in theoretical linguistics and syntactic theory.

Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure

Author : Ivona Kučerová
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107001986
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure by : Ivona Kučerová

Download or read book Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure written by Ivona Kučerová and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together exciting research on the relationship between syntax and information structure, developing an interface-based approach.

Objects and Other Subjects

Author : William D. Davies
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401009910
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Objects and Other Subjects written by William D. Davies and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken together the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive view of how transformational syntax characterizes the elusive but often useful notions of subject and object, examining how subject and object properties are distributed among various functional projections, converging sometimes in particular languages.

Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 3

Author : Tibor Kiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110393158
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 3 by : Tibor Kiss

Download or read book Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 3 written by Tibor Kiss and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic analysis has led to a rapid increase in analyses and theoretical suggestions. This second edition of the Handbook on Syntax adopts a unifying perspective and therefore does not place the division of syntactic theory into several schools to the fore, but the increase in knowledge resulting from the fruitful argumentations between syntactic analysis and syntactic theory. It uses selected phenomena of individual languages and their cross-linguistic realizations to explain what syntactic analyses can do and at the same time to show in what respects syntactic theories differ from each other. It investigates how syntax is related to neighbouring disciplines and investigate the role of the interfaces especially the relationship between syntax and phonology, morphology, compositional semantics, pragmatics, and the lexicon. The phenomena chosen bring together renowned experts in syntax, and represent the consensus reached as to what has to be considered as an important as well as illustrative syntactic phenomenon. The phenomena discuss do not only serve to show syntactic analyses, but also to compare theoretical approaches with each other.

Word Meaning and Syntax

Author : Stephen Wechsler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199279896
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Word Meaning and Syntax written by Stephen Wechsler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nature of the interface between word meaning and syntax, one of the most controversial and elusive issues in contemporary linguistics. It approaches the interface from both sides of the relation, and surveys a range of views on the mapping between them, with an emphasis on lexical approaches to argument structure. Stephen Wechsler begins by analysing the fundamental problem of word meaning, with discussions of vagueness and polysemy, complemented with a look at the roles of world knowledge and normative aspects of word meaning. He then surveys the argument-taking properties of verbs and other predicators, and presents key theories of lexical semantic structure. Later chapters provide a description of formal theories and frameworks for capturing the mapping from word meaning to syntactic structure, as well as arguments in favour of a lexicalist approach to argument structure. The book will interest scholars of theoretical linguistics, particularly in the fields of syntax and lexical semantics, as well as those interested in psycholinguistics and philosophy of language.

The Blackwell Companion to Syntax

Author : Martin Everaert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405178418
Total Pages : 3285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Syntax written by Martin Everaert and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 3285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** Pre-Order The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, second edition, publishing December 2017. Find out more at www.companiontosyntax.com *** This long-awaited reference work marks the culmination of numerous years of research and international collaboration by the world’s leading syntacticians. There exists no other comparable collection of research that documents the development of syntax in this way. Under the editorial direction of Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk, this 5 volume set comprises 70 case studies commissioned specifically for this volume. The 80 contributors are drawn from an international group of prestigious linguists, including Joe Emonds, Sandra Chung, Susan Rothstein, Adriana Belletti, Jim Huang, Howard Lasnik, and Marcel den Dikken, among many others. A unique collection of 70 newly-commissioned case studies, offering access to research completed over the last 40 years. Brings together the world’s leading syntacticians to provide a large and diverse number of case studies in the field. Explores a comprehensive range of syntax topics from an historical perspective. Investigates empirical domains which have been well-documented and which have played a prominent role in theoretical syntax at some stage in the development of generative grammar. Serves as a research tool for not only theoretical linguistics but also the various forms of applied linguistics. Contains an accessible alphabetical structure, with an index integral to each volume featuring keywords and key figures. Each multi-volume set is also accompanied by a CD Rom of the entire Companion. Like the prestigious Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series, this multi-volume work, in the new The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Linguistics series, can be relied upon to deliver the quality and expertise with which Blackwell Publishing’s linguistics list is associated.

Syntactic Effects of Conjunctivist Semantics

Author : Tim Hunter
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027287325
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Syntactic Effects of Conjunctivist Semantics written by Tim Hunter and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax is proposed, guided by an independently motivated hypothesis about the composition of neo-Davidsonian logical forms, in which there is no atomic movement operation and no atomic adjunction operation. The terms 'movement' and 'adjunction' serve only as convenient labels for certain combinations of other, primitive operations, and as a result the system derives non-trivial predictions about how movement and adjunction should interact; in particular, it yields natural explanatory accounts of the constituency of adjunction structures, the possibility of counter-cyclic attachment, and the prohibitions on extraction from adjoined domains (adjunct islands) and from moved domains (freezing effects). This work serves as a case study in deriving explanations for syntactic patterns from a restrictive theory of semantic composition, and in using an explicit grammatical framework to inform rigourous minimalist theorising.

Focus Structure in Generative Grammar

Author : Carsten Breul
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027227928
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

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Book Synopsis Focus Structure in Generative Grammar by : Carsten Breul

Download or read book Focus Structure in Generative Grammar written by Carsten Breul and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. This claim is discussed in great detail with respect to syntax, intonation and semantics within the framework of the Minimalist Program. It is shown that the incorporation of focus structure into syntax offers new perspectives for a solution of vexing problems in syntax and semantics. For example, fronting (preposing, 'topicalisation') is treated as a syntactic operation which clearly belongs to core grammar, i.e. is not optional or 'stylistic'; the semantic notion of quantifier raising is dispensed with in favour of a focus structural treatment of phenomena which gave rise to it. The book appeals to generative linguists and to functional linguists who do not believe in an unbridgeable gap between the formal and functional analysis of language.

Differential Subject Marking

Author : Helen de Hoop
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402064977
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Differential Subject Marking written by Helen de Hoop and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all sentences encode their subjects in the same way. Some languages overtly mark some subjects depending on certain features of the subject argument or the sentence in which the subject figures. This is known as Differential Subject Marking (DSM). Containing illuminating discussions of DSM from languages all over the world, this book shows that DSM is often the result of interactions between conflicting constraints on language use.

Morphosemantic Number:

Author : Daniel Harbour
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402050380
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Morphosemantic Number: written by Daniel Harbour and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-03-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number is a major research domain in semantics, syntax and morphology. However, no current theory of number is applicable to all three fields. In this work, the author argues that a unified theory is not only possible, but necessary for the study of Universal Grammar. Through insightful analysis of unfamiliar data, the author shows that one and the same feature set is implicated in semantic and morphological number phenomena alike, with syntax acting as the conduit between the two. At the heart of the study is an original treatment of Kiowa, a North American language with a remarkable constellation of characteristics, including semantically based noun classification and complex agreement morphology. This volume presents: (1) the foundations of a unified morphosemantic theory of number; (2) insight into the flow of information from the lexicon, via syntax, into the morphology; (3) wide-ranging topics: nominal semantics, noun classes, DP syntax, agreement, suppletion, complex morphology.

The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure

Author : Misha Becker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107007844
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure written by Misha Becker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how children's early ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns helps them acquire complex sentence structure. The theoretical claims of the book expand the well-known hypotheses of syntactic and semantic bootstrapping, resulting in greater coverage of the core principles of language acquisition.