Incomplete Category Fronting

Author : Gereon Müller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401718646

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Incomplete Category Fronting by Gereon Müller Pdf

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.

Author : Gereon Muller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401718652

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Incomplete Category Fronting by Gereon Muller Pdf

Author : Gema Chocano
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292636

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Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form by Gema Chocano Pdf

‘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.

Author : Anne-Marie Di Sciullo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255778

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Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar by Anne-Marie Di Sciullo Pdf

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.

Author : Gereon Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1082132447

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Incomplete category fronting by Gereon Müller Pdf

Author : Arthur Stepanov,Gisbert Fanselow,Ralf Vogel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197365

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Minimality Effects in Syntax by Arthur Stepanov,Gisbert Fanselow,Ralf Vogel Pdf

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)

Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027227691

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Dimensions of Movement by Artemis Alexiadou Pdf

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.

Author : Tim Hunter
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287328

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Syntactic Effects of Conjunctivist Semantics by Tim Hunter Pdf

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.

Author : Adriana Cardoso
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191035722

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Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony by Adriana Cardoso Pdf

This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on a case study of relative clauses in contemporary European Portuguese and earlier stages of Portuguese. Adriana Cardoso offers a comparative account of three linguistic phenomena in the synchrony and diachrony of Portuguese-remnant-internal relativization, extraposition of restrictive relative clauses, and appositive relativization-and shows that the changes affecting these structures conspired to reduce the patterns of nominal discontinuity available in the language. Adopting a cross-linguistic perspective, she additionally shows that this series of changes transformed Portuguese from a 'Germanic-like' language, with a wide range of phrasal discontinuities, to a 'non-Germanic type', with more restricted patterns of discontinuity. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars working on Portuguese syntax, but also to Romance linguists and all those interested in historical and comparative syntax more widely.

Author : Ivona Kučerová,Ad Neeleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107001985

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Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure by Ivona Kučerová,Ad Neeleman Pdf

This volume brings together exciting research on the relationship between syntax and information structure, developing an interface-based approach.

Author : Roland Hinterholzl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190294724

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Scrambling, Remnant Movement, and Restructuring in West Germanic by Roland Hinterholzl Pdf

In this book, Hinterhölzl provides a comprehensive study of three salient phenomena of West Germaic, namely scrambling, remnant movement and restructuring, and discusses their interrelatedness. In particular, restructuring is shown to break down into remnant movement of the major phases of the infinitival clause, accounting for the formation of verb clusters and the transparency of restructuring infinitives.

Author : Marcel den Dikken,Christina Tortora
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027228027

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The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories by Marcel den Dikken,Christina Tortora Pdf

LC number: 2005048395

Author : Antonio Fabregas,Jaume Mateu,Michael Putnam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472525901

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Contemporary Linguistic Parameters by Antonio Fabregas,Jaume Mateu,Michael Putnam Pdf

Parameters have lain at the core of linguistic research in the generative tradition for decades. The theoretical questions they have raised are deep and broad: this reference text investigates how contemporary linguistics has best tried to answer them. This book looks at how parameters might be properly defined and what their locus might be :lexical information, functional heads, the computational system, the phonological branch of the grammar. What kind of data forms trigger acquisition of a parameter? Are parameters necessary or can we study languages without making reference to them? The questions looked at are not just theoretical: how can a theory of parameters be used to help understand second language acquisition, and what contributions can it make to the study of language typology? This is the right time to gather all this information, dispersed in many different kinds of publications by single authors and groups, into one comprehensive volume.

Author : Luigi Rizzi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198036159

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The Structure of CP and IP by Luigi Rizzi Pdf

The study of syntactic complexity and the identification of the elementary structural units involved have always been a component of research in the field of theoretical syntax. Still, these topics have recently acquired a higher degree of prominence and autonomy, which has led to an expansion in the ways syntacticians conceptualize syntactic representations and their interactions with other research topics. The Structure of CP and IP is the second volume in the Cartography of Syntactic Structures, a subgroup within the Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax series. Funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, this research endeavor gave rise to the publication of the first such volume, The Functional Structure of DP and IP, which focuses primarily on the structure of nominal expressions and on certain aspects of clausal expressions. This second edited volume examines the structure of the clauses, with special reference to the inflectional domain (IP) and the left peripheral field of the clause (CP). With contributions by a select group of syntacticians, The Structure of CP and IP will be useful to scholars with an interest in Italian, Romance, and comparative syntax, and of substantial value to all linguists interested in contemporary research in generative grammar.

Author : Valéria Molnár,Verner Egerland,Susanne Winkler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501504389

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Architecture of Topic by Valéria Molnár,Verner Egerland,Susanne Winkler Pdf

This volume contains innovative papers that target the linguistic status of topic at the interface between grammar and discourse. The purpose of the volume is to discuss the universal properties of topics and, at the same time, to document the range of discourse-semantic and grammatical variation within this phenomenon in European languages. The volume is structured accordingly: (i) theoretical foundations of topicality in grammar and discourse; (ii) discourse-semantic correlates of topicality; (iii) variation in the grammatical (external and internal) encoding of topicality; (iv) topics from the diachronic perspective. The articles take different perspectives, including contrastive studies of modern languages, studies on diachronic development, and typological generalizations. They also take into consideration various types of empirical data – introspective data, semi-spontaneously produced data, experimental data and language corpora. The articles in this volume show that the concept of topic is necessary for the description and explanation of a number of discourse-semantic phenomena. They present a state of the art account of the architecture of topic while making recent research on the phenomenon accessible to a wider readership.