Functional Heads

Author : Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195354058

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Adverbs and Functional Heads by Guglielmo Cinque Pdf

One of the world's leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of the clause. In this theory, both adverbs and heads, which encode the functional notions of the clause, are ordered in a rigid sequence. Cinques cutting-edge proposal suggests that the structure of natural language sentences is much richer than previously assumed.

Author : Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198039884

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Restructuring and Functional Heads by Guglielmo Cinque Pdf

This volume collects the recent published articles of Guglielmo Cinque of the University of Venice, one of the world's top linguists. The book is divided into two sections, the first on restructuring, a central topic in Romance syntax and with connections to other language groups as well. The second part focuses on the consequences of treating clausal functional heads as members of a universal hierarchy in the domain of morphpsyntax, offering a new perspective on many intricate problems arising in a variety of natural languages.

Author : Laura Brugé,Anna Cardinaletti,Giuliana Giusti,Nicola Munaro,Cecilia Poletto
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199746736

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Functional Heads by Laura Brugé,Anna Cardinaletti,Giuliana Giusti,Nicola Munaro,Cecilia Poletto Pdf

The cartographic project considers evidence for a functional head in one language as evidence for it in universal grammar. In this volume, some of the most influential linguists who have participated in this long-lasting debate offer their recent work in short, self contained case studies.

Author : Laura Brugé,Anna Cardinaletti,Giuliana Giusti,Nicola Munaro,Cecilia Poletto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199974368

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Functional Heads, Volume 7 by Laura Brugé,Anna Cardinaletti,Giuliana Giusti,Nicola Munaro,Cecilia Poletto Pdf

Over the last two decades, functional heads have been one of the privileged objects of research in generative linguistics. However, within this line of inquiry, two alternative approaches have developed: while the cartographic project considers crosslinguistic evidence as crucial for a complete mapping of functional heads in universal grammar, minimalist accounts tend to consider structural economy as literally involving a reduction in the number of available heads. In this volume, some of the most influential linguists who have participated in this long-lasting debate offer their recent work in short, self-contained case studies. The contributions cover all the main layers of recently studied syntactic structure, including such major areas of empirical research as grammaticalization and language change, standard and non-standard varieties, interface issues, and morphosyntax. Functional Heads attempts to map aspects of syntactic structure according to the cartographic approach, and in doing so demonstrates that the differences between cartography and minimalism are perhaps more superficial than substantial.

Author : Barbara Egedi,Veronika Hegedűs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192644992

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Functional Heads Across Time by Barbara Egedi,Veronika Hegedűs Pdf

This volume explores the role that functional elements play in syntactic change and investigates the semantic and functional features that are the driving force behind those changes. Structural developments are explained in terms of the reanalysis of parts of the functional sequences in the clausal, nominal, and adpositional domains, through changes in parameter settings and feature specifications. The chapters discuss 'microdiachronic' syntactic changes that often have implications for large-scale syntactic effects, such as word order variation, the emergence (and lexicalization) of syntactic projections, grammaticalization, and changes in information-structural properties. The volume contains both case studies of individual languages, such as German, Hungarian, and Romanian, and detailed investigations of cross-linguistic phenomena, based primarily on digital corpora of historical and dialectal data.

Author : Adriana Belletti,Luigi Rizzi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195358568

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Parameters and Functional Heads by Adriana Belletti,Luigi Rizzi Pdf

The essays collected in this volume, most previously unpublished, address a number of closely interconnected issues raised by the comparative syntax of functional heads within the Principles-and-Parameters approach. The general theory of head movement, the properties of derived structures created by incorporation, and the parameterization involved are the main theoretical foci. One major empirical area which is addressed concerns head movement in configurations involving certain kinds of operator-like elements, for example, the different manifestations of Verb Second phenomena in Wh and other constructions and the syntax of negative heads and specifiers. In addition, properties of functional heads and head movement in nominal and clausal structures and the causative construction are investigated.

Author : Perugia Adriana Belletti Associate Professor of Linguistics Universita per Stanieri,Luigi Rizzi Professor of Linguistics University of Geneva
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198024880

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Parameters and Functional Heads : Essays in Comparative Syntax by Perugia Adriana Belletti Associate Professor of Linguistics Universita per Stanieri,Luigi Rizzi Professor of Linguistics University of Geneva Pdf

The essays collected in this volume, most previously unpublished, address a number of closely interconnected issues raised by the comparative syntax of functional heads within the Principles-and-Parameters approach. The general theory of head movement, the properties of derived structures created by incorporation, and the parameterization involved are the main theoretical foci. One major empirical area which is addressed concerns head movement in configurations involving certain kinds of operator-like elements, for example, the different manifestations of Verb Second phenomena in Wh and other constructions and the syntax of negative heads and specifiers. In addition, properties of functional heads and head movement in nominal and clausal structures and the causative construction are investigated.

Author : Itziar Laka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Generative grammar
ISBN : UOM:39015024763909

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Functional Heads and Clause Structure by Itziar Laka Pdf

Author : Anne-Marie Di Sciullo,Virginia Hill
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255396

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Edges, Heads, and Projections by Anne-Marie Di Sciullo,Virginia Hill Pdf

This collection deals with central issues in the syntax of clauses and their interfaces with the conceptual-intentional system. The book targets the syntactic properties that have an impact on the interpretation of discourse and temporal dependencies, functional fields including CP, pragmatic markers at the syntax-pragmatic interface, and on the possible parameterization of these properties. The papers in this volume bring to the fore the role of the edges (specifier and adjuncts), heads and projections in the grammar and at the interfaces. They address the question to what extent the relevant configurations at the level of edges, head, and projections determine the syntax/semantic, semantic/pragmatic connections. The contributions clarify the notion of edge and bring evidence that this notion is core to the analysis of various phenomena at the left periphery of clauses and phrases. This volume also discusses functional heads and their projections, particularly insofar as the properties of these heads determine the composition of the CP field, and cases where a CP may or may not be projected.

Author : Susan Rothstein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004373198

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Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing by Susan Rothstein Pdf

Explores licensing theory and its implications for a theory of syntax. This book brings a series of papers which focus on developing a constrained set of licensing mechanisms relating elements in a syntactic representation, and on the different properties of lexical and functional heads as licenses of complements and specifiers.

Author : Barbara Lust
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 0805813519

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Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Heads, projections, and learnability by Barbara Lust Pdf

Author : Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9780195115277

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Adverbs and Functional Heads by Guglielmo Cinque Pdf

This text presents evidence locating adverb phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a theory of the clause. In this theory, both adverbs and heads, which encode the functional notions of the clause, are ordered in a rigid sequence. The author's proposal suggests that the structure of natural language sentences is much richer than previously assumed.

Author : Janne Bondi Johannessen,Joseph C. Salmons
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268198

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Germanic Heritage Languages in North America by Janne Bondi Johannessen,Joseph C. Salmons Pdf

This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volume focuses on three critical issues underlying the notion of ‘heritage language’: acquisition, attrition and change. The book offers theoretically-informed discussions of heritage language processes across phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics and the lexicon, in addition to work on sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and contact settings. With this, the volume also includes a variety of frameworks and approaches, synchronic and diachronic. Most European Germanic languages share some central linguistic features, such as V2, gender and agreement in the nominal system, and verb inflection. As minority languages faced with a majority language like English, similarities and differences emerge in patterns of variation and change in these heritage languages. These empirical findings shed new light on mechanisms and processes.

Author : Stanford Linguistics Association
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0937073644

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Proceedings of the 9th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics by Stanford Linguistics Association Pdf

Most of the papers presented at the 1990 West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics are included in this volume. This annual publication, not readily available in the past, makes the latest research in formal linguistics available to a wider audience. Aaron Halpern is a graduate student in linguistics at Stanford University.

Author : Peter W. Culicover,Ray Jackendoff
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191533808

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Simpler Syntax by Peter W. Culicover,Ray Jackendoff Pdf

This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong. It puts forward a new basis for syntactic theory, drawing on a wide range of frameworks, and charts new directions for research. In the past four decades, theories of syntactic structure have become more abstract, and syntactic derivations have become ever more complex. Peter Culicover and Ray Jackendoff trace this development through the history of contemporary syntactic theory, showing how much it has been driven by theory-internal rather than empirical considerations. They develop an alternative that is responsive to linguistic, cognitive, computational, and biological concerns. At the core of this alternative is the Simpler Syntax Hypothesis: the most explanatory syntactic theory is one that imputes the minimum structure necessary to mediate between phonology and meaning. A consequence of this hypothesis is a far richer mapping between syntax and semantics than is generally assumed. Through concrete analyses of numerous grammatical phenomena, some well studied and some new, the authors demonstrate the empirical and conceptual superiority of the Simpler Syntax approach. Simpler Syntax is addressed to linguists of all persuasions. It will also be of central interest to those concerned with language in psychology, human biology, evolution, computational science, and artificial intellige