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Minimalism, Scope, and VP Structure

Author : Thomas S. Stroik
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Minimalism, Scope, and VP Structure written by Thomas S. Stroik and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-06-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this scholarly book, author Thomas Stroik furthers recent directions in generative grammars. Bringing together Chomsky's minimalist assumptions of syntactic representation and Aoun and Li's theory of scope, Stroik investigates what the logical representation of a sentence can tell us about the structure of verb phrases (VPs). Arguing that scopal relations provide the clearest view of the structural relationship between noun phrase (NP) arguments, he uses scopal data to explore and expose the base argument structure of VPs. In his analysis of VP structure, Stroik discusses double-object constructions, multiple interrogatives, bare NP adverbials, and psych-verb constructions.

Locality in Minimalist Syntax

Author : Thomas S. Stroik
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026226157X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Locality in Minimalist Syntax written by Thomas S. Stroik and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-02-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This minimalist study proposes that the computational system of human language must consist of strictly local operations. In this highly original reanalysis of minimalist syntax, Thomas Stroik considers the optimal design properties for human language. Taking as his starting point Chomsky's minimalist assumption that the syntactic component of a language generates representations for sentences that are interpreted at perceptual and conceptual interfaces, Stroik investigates how these representations can be generated most parsimoniously. Countering the prevailing analyses of minimalist syntax, he argues that the computational properties of human language consist only of strictly local Merge operations that lack both look-back and look-forward properties. All grammatical operations reduce to a single sort of locally defined feature-checking operation, and all grammatical properties are the cumulative effects of local grammatical operations. As Stroik demonstrates, reducing syntactic operations to local operations with a single property—merging lexical material into syntactic derivations—not only radically increases the computational efficiency of the syntactic component, but it also optimally simplifies the design of the computational system. Locality in Minimalist Syntax explains a range of syntactic phenomena that have long resisted previous generative theories, including that-trace effects, superiority effects, and the interpretations available for multiple-wh constructions. It also introduces the Survive Principle, an important new concept for syntactic analysis, and provides something considered impossible in minimalist syntax: a locality account of displacement phenomena.

On Shell Structure

Author : Richard K. Larson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113411382X
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book On Shell Structure written by Richard K. Larson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the "VP Shell" or "Split VP" analysis of sentential structure. The volume includes five previously published papers together with two major unpublished works from the same period: "Light Predicate Raising" (1989), which explores the interesting consequences of a leftward raising analysis of "NP Shift" phenomena, and "The Projection of DP (and DegP)" (1991), which extends the shell approach to the projection of nominal and adjectival structure, showing how projection can be handled in a uniform way. In addition to published, unpublished and limited distribution work, the volume includes extensive new introductory material. The general introduction traces the conceptual roots of VP Shells and its problems in the face of subsequent developments in theory, and offers an updated form compatible with modern Minimalist syntactic analysis. The section introductions to the material on datives, complex predicates and nominals show how the updated form of shell theory applies in the empirical domains where it was originally developed.

Symmetry Breaking in Syntax

Author : Hubert Haider
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107017750
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Symmetry Breaking in Syntax written by Hubert Haider and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new theory of grammar which explores the old distinction between OV and VO languages and their underlying basic asymmetry.

Working Minimalism

Author : Samuel David Epstein
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262550321
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Working Minimalism by : Samuel David Epstein

Download or read book Working Minimalism written by Samuel David Epstein and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays present explicit syntactic analyses that adhere to programmatic minimalist guidelines. The essays in this book present explicit syntactic analyses that adhere to programmatic minimalist guidelines. Thus they show how the guiding ideas of minimalism can shape the construction of a new, more explanatory theory of the syntactic component of the human language faculty. Contributors Zeljko Boskovic, Samuel David Epstein, Robert Freidin, Erich M. Groat, Norbert Hornstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara, Howard Lasnik, Roger Martin, Jairo Nunes, Norvin Richards, Juan Uriagereka, Amy Weinberg Current Studies in Linguistics No. 32

Verbal Complement Clauses

Author : Claudia Felser
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027227461
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book Verbal Complement Clauses written by Claudia Felser and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines the syntax of bare infinitival and participial complements of perception verbs in English and other European languages, and investigates the general conditions under which verbal complement clauses are licensed. The introductory chapter is followed by an overview of the major syntactic and semantic characteristics of non-finite complements of perception verbs in English. The third chapter presents an analysis within the framework of Chomsky's (1995) Minimalist Program according to which event-denoting complements are minimally realised as projections of an aspectual head. In the next chapter, it is argued that verbs capable of licensing aspectual complement clauses must be able to function as a special type of control predicate, an assumption which is shown to account for a number of seemingly unrelated properties of the constructions under consideration. The final chapter examines syntactically reduced clausal complements from a cross-linguistic perspective, showing that Southern Romance languages differ from Germanic ones with respect to the availability of 'bare' aspectual complement clauses, a difference that is attributed to morphological properties of verbs in these languages.

The Syntax of Adjuncts

Author : Thomas Ernst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139431692
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Syntax of Adjuncts written by Thomas Ernst and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-20 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a theory of the distribution of adverbial adjuncts in a Principles and Parameters framework, claiming that there are few syntactic principles specific to adverbials; rather, for the most part, adverbials adjoin freely to any projection. Adjuncts' possible hierarchical positions are determined by whether they can receive a proper interpretation, according to their selectional (including scope) requirements and general compositional rules, while linear order is determined by hierarchical position along with a system of directionality principles and morphological weight, both of which apply generally to adjuncts and all other syntactic elements. A wide range of adverbial types is analysed; predicational adverbs (such as manner, and modal adverbs), domain expressions like financially, temporal, frequency, duration and focusing adverbials; participant PPs (e.g. locatives and benefactives); resultative and conditional clauses, and others, taken primarily from English, Chinese, French and Italian, with occasional reference to others (such as German and Japanese).

Edge-based Clausal Syntax

Author : Paul Martin Postal
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262014815
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Edge-based Clausal Syntax written by Paul Martin Postal and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that there are three kinds of English grammatical objects, each with different syntactic properties. In Edge-Based Clausal Syntax, Paul Postal rejects the notion that an English phrase of the form [V + DP] invariably involves a grammatical relation properly characterized as a direct object. He argues instead that at least three distinct relations occur in such a structure. The different syntactic properties of these three kinds of objects are shown by how they behave in passives, middles, -able forms, tough movement, wh-movement, Heavy NP Shift, Ride Node Raising, re-prefixation, and many other tests. This proposal renders Postal's position sharply different from that of Chomsky, who defined a direct object structurally as [NP, VP], and with the traditional linguistics text's definition of the direct object as the DP sister of V. According to Postal's framework, sentence structures are complex graph structures built on nodes (vertices) and edges (arcs). The node that heads a particular edge represents a constituent that bears the grammatical relation named by the edge label to its tail node. This approach allows two DPs that have very different grammatical properties to occupy what looks like identical structural positions. The contrasting behaviors of direct objects, which at first seem anomalous--even grammatically chaotic--emerge in Postal's account as nonanomalous, as symptoms of hitherto ungrasped structural regularity.

Asymmetry in Grammar

Author : Anne-Marie Di Sciullo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027227782
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (277 download)

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Book Synopsis Asymmetry in Grammar by : Anne-Marie Di Sciullo

Download or read book Asymmetry in Grammar written by Anne-Marie Di Sciullo and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asymmetry in Grammar: Syntax and Semantics brings to fore the centrality of asymmetry in DP, VP and CP. A finer grained articulation of the DP is proposed, and further functional projections for restrictive relatives, as well as a refined analyses of case identification and presumptive pronouns. The papers on VP discuss further asymmetries among arguments, and between arguments and adjuncts. Double-object constructions, specificational copula sentences, secondary predicates, and the scope properties of adjuncts are discussed in this perspective. The papers on CP propose a further articulation of the phrasal projection, justifications for Remnant IP movement, and an analysis of variation in clause structure asymmetries. The papers in semantics support the hypothesis that interpretation is a function of configurational asymmetry. The type/token information difference is further argued to correspond to the partition between the upper and lower level of the phrase. It is also proposed that Point of View Roles are not primitives of the pragmatic component, but are head-dependent categories. Configurationality is further argued to be required to distinguish contrastive from non-contrastive Topic. Compositionality is proposed to explain cross-linguistic variations in the selectional behavior of typologically different languages. The papers in syntax include contributions from Antonia Androutsopoulou and Manuel Español-Echevarría, Dana Isac, Edit Jakab, Cedric Boeckx, Julie Anne Legate, Maria Cristina Cuervo, Jacqueline Guéron, Niina Zhang, Thomas Ernst, Manuela Ambar, Jean-Yves Pollock, Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Ilena Paul and Stanca Somesfalean.The papers on semantics include contributions of Greg Carlson,Peggy Speas and Carol Tenny, Chungmin Lee, and James Pustejovsky.

Elements of Control

Author : Idan Landau
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401139431
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Control written by Idan Landau and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new outlook on the derivation and interpretation of control constructions. It clears up some common misconceptions about the nature of control, as well as sharpening the empirical challenges that face any comprehensive theory in this domain. Regardless of theoretical framework, scholars of syntax and semantics interested in these topics, will find this book a major contribution to the field.

Small Phrase Layers

Author : Satu Helena Manninen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027282226
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Small Phrase Layers written by Satu Helena Manninen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines the structure and properties of Finnish manner adverbials. The central idea is that, instead of AdvPs, DPs, APs, PPs, NumPs and InfinitivalPs, manner adverbials have the form of either kPs or pPs, and they are licensed as unique specifiers of a manner-related small vP. Secondly, because ”obligatory” and ”optional” manner adverbials are merged as specifiers of one and the same small vP, the computational system of language sees no difference between them. This is why ”obligatory” and ”optional” manner adverbials often behave in exactly the same way with regard to syntactic operations such as movement. Thirdly, the author shows that, although all arguments and VP-internal adverbials are merged as specifiers of a unique small vP, this hierarchical structure need not always be reflected in an unambiguous linear order: in many languages VP-internal manner, place and time adverbials are allowed to permute freely because they have no features which would need checking by the features of a higher functional head, and because their original Spec,vP positions are ”invisible” to the Linear Correspondence Axiom. Although the argumentation and analyses are mainly supported by Finnish data, the author also shows how they can be applied to other languages. The book also contains an extensive introduction to Finnish, to help readers unfamiliar with the language to follow the discussion.

Minimalist Syntax

Author : Andrew Radford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521542746
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Minimalist Syntax written by Andrew Radford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

The Locative Syntax of Experiencers

Author : Idan Landau
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262266105
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Locative Syntax of Experiencers written by Idan Landau and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new account of the peculiar syntax of psychological verbs argues that experiencers are grammaticalized as locative phrases. Experiencers—grammatical participants that undergo a certain psychological change or are in such a state—are grammatically special. As objects (John scared Mary; loud music annoys me), experiencers display two peculiar clusters of nonobject properties across different languages: their syntax is often typical of oblique arguments and their semantic scope is typical of subjects. In The Locative Syntax of Experiencers, Idan Landau investigates this puzzling correlation and argues that experiencers are syntactically coded as (mental) locations. Drawing on results from a range of languages and theoretical frameworks, Landau examines the far-reaching repercussions of this simple claim. Landau shows that all experiencer objects are grammaticalized as locative phrases, introduced by a dative/locative preposition. “Bare” experiencer objects are in fact oblique, too, the preposition being null. This preposition accounts for the oblique psych(ological) properties, attested in case alternations, cliticization, resumption, restrictions on passive formation, and so on. As locatives, object experiencers may undergo locative inversion, giving rise to the common phenomenon of quirky experiencers. When covert, this inversion endows object experiencers with wide scope, attested in control, binding, and wh-quantifier interactions. Landau's synthesis thus provides a novel solution to some of the oldest puzzles in the generative study of psychological verbs. The Locative Syntax of Experiencers offers the most comprehensive description of the syntax of psychological verbs to date, documenting their special properties in more than twenty languages. Its basic theoretical claim is readily translatable into alternative frameworks. Existing accounts of psychological verbs either consider very few languages or fail to incorporate other theoretical frameworks; this study takes a broader perspective, informed by findings of four decades of research

On Pied-Piping

Author : Fabian Heck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110211467
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book On Pied-Piping written by Fabian Heck and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pied-piping, the phenomenon that wh-movement may target categories not marked with the feature [wh], has generally been considered idiosyncratic and pathological. On Pied-Piping argues that this assessment is not correct. The book presents a compilation of crosslinguistic generalizations on pied-piping and a theory that derives them. Pied-piping is incorporated into a derivational theory of successive cyclic wh-movement that includes input-output optimization, the operation Agree, and phase theory. The resulting theory is a step towards closing a long-standing gap in syntactic theorizing.

Prepositions, Case and Verbal Prefixes

Author : Petr Biskup
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027262640
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Prepositions, Case and Verbal Prefixes written by Petr Biskup and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is concerned with prepositional elements in Slavic languages, prepositions, verbal prefixes and functional elements of prepositional nature. It argues that verbal prefixes are incorporated prepositions projecting their argument structure in the complement of the verbal root and that their meaning is based on the two-argument meaning of prepositions, enriched with the CAUSE operator. The book investigates idiomaticity in the realm of prefixed verbs and proposes a novel analysis of non-compositional prefixed verbs based on the operation of predicate transfer. It also offers a uniform analysis of cases. Prepositional as well as non-prepositional cases are treated as a reflection of the agreement operation, whereat the type of prepositional case is determined by semantic properties of the decomposed preposition. Furthermore, it examines prepositions from a diachronic perspective and argues that they can be grammaticalised as future markers under certain circumstances.

Extraposition from NP in English

Author : Edward Göbbel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501509853
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Extraposition from NP in English written by Edward Göbbel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of phonology on word order phenomena has become a central research agenda ever since the Minimalist Program emphasised the role of interface conditions on syntactic operations. This book is a detailed study of extraposition from NP, which has traditionally been the domain of syntactic investigation and information-structural studies. After an examination of syntactic accounts of PP and relative clause extraposition, which are largely found inadequate, it explores the possibility of phonological solutions by comparing the prosodic structure of canonical and extraposed word orders. Particular attention is payed to the informational status of extraposed constituents and the focus structure of the sentence. The book shows that extraposition optimises the prosodic structure of sentences and in some cases their rhythmic structure, while focus structure only plays a role in extraposition of defocused constituents. The book further argues that extraposition occurs at PF, while certain binding-theoretical consequences of extraposition can be resolved by LF movement. With its focus on the interface between syntax and phonology, the book will appeal to researchers working on either domain.

Minimalist Syntax

Author : Randall Hendrick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470758198
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Minimalist Syntax written by Randall Hendrick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minimalist Syntax is a collection of essays that analyze major syntactic processes in a variety of languages, all unified by their perspective from within the Minimalist Program. Introduces important concepts in the Minimalist approach to syntactic theory. Emphasizes empirical consequences of the Minimalist approach through innovative analyses. Highlights the importance of Minimalist syntax in explaining features of natural languages. Includes contributions from leading syntacticians.