The Blackwell companion to syntax /

Offers a comprehensive survey of the field of syntax. The comprehensive multi-volume set comprises case studies commissioned specifically for this companion. The entire companion is also available electronically on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Everaert, Martin (Editor), Riemsdijk, Henk C. van (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Series:Blackwell handbooks in linguistics ; 19.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • v. 1. The accusative plus infinitive construction in English / Jeffrey T. Runner. Adjectival passives / Joseph Emonds. Adjectives : order within DP and attributive APs / Daniel Valois. Adverb classes and adverb placement / Denis Delfitto. Affectedness / Mona Anderson. Analytic causatives / Maria Teresa Guasti. A-not-a questions / Paul Hagstrom. Bare plurals / Denis Delfitto. Binding theory : terms and concepts / Eric Reuland. Bridge phenomena / Naomi Erteschik-Schir. Case (with special reference to Japanese) / Kazuko Inoue. Chinese Ba / Yen-Hui Audrey Li. Clitic climbing / Reineke Bok-Bennema. Clitic doubling / Elena Anagnostopoulou. Comparative deletion and subdeletion / Norbert Corver. Conditionals / Rajesh Bhatt and Roumyana Pancheva. Contraction / Grant Goodall
  • v. 2. Copular sentences / Andrea Moro. Derived nominals / Bożena Rozwadowska. Double nominatives in Japanese / Koichi Tateishi. Double object constructions / Joseph Emonds and Rosemarie Whitney. Ellipsis in DP / Anne Lobeck. Embedded root phenomena / Caroline Heycock. Existential sentences and expletive There / Andrea Moro. Extraposition / Mark Baltin. Focus movement (with special reference to Hungarian) / Kriszta Szendrői. Free relatives / Henk van Riemsdijk. Freezing effects / Norbert Corver. Gapping / Khyle Johnson. Gerundive nominalizations / Gary Milsark. Grammatical verbs (with special references to light verbs) / Tara Monahan. Honorifics / Nobuko Hasegawa. Icelandic logophoric anaphora / Eric Reuland. Implicit arguments / Rajesh Bhatt and Roumyana Pancheva. Inalienable possession / Jacqueline Guéron. Inverse linking / Robert May and Alan Bale. Left dislocation (including CLLD) / Artemis Alexiadou
  • v. 3. Logophoricity / Eric Reuland. Long-distance binding in Asian languages / Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon, and C.-T. James Huang. Long-distance binding in Germanic languages / Eric Reuland. Long NP-movement / Howard Lasnik and Cedric Boeckx. Middles / Peter Ackema and Maaike Schoorlemmer. Mittelfeld phenomena : (scrambling in Germanic) / Hubert Haider. Multiple-wh-questions / Veneeta Dayal. N-words and negative concord / Anastasia Giannakidou. Object shift / Sten Vikner. Partial wh-movement / Gisbert Fanselow. (Past) participle agreement / Adriana Belletti. Phrasal stress and syntax / María Luisa Zubizarreta and Jean-Roger Vergnaud. Pied-piping / Julia Horvath. Preposition stranding / Paul Law. Properties of VOS languages / Sandra Chung
  • v. 4. Quantifier scope ambiguities / Katalin É. Kiss. Reconstruction, binding, and scope / Dominique Sportiche. Resumption / James McCloskey. The SE-anaphor and its role in argument realization / Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin. Secondary predicates in Australian languages / Eva Schultze-Berndt. Secondary predication / Susan Rothstein. Serial verbs / Pieter Muysken and Tonjes Veenstra. Sluicing / Jacon Merchant. Specificational copular sentences and pseudoclefts / Marcel den Dikken. Split topicalization / Hanneka van Hoof. The spray-load alternation / Maya Arad. Strong vs. weak islands / Anna Szabolcsi. Stylistic fronting / Anders Holmberg. Subextraction / Norbert Corver. Subject clitics and complex inversion / Jean-Yves Pollock. Subjunctives / Joseph Quer. Syntactic haplology / Ad Neeleman and Hans van de Koot
  • v. 5. The syntax of modal auxiliaries / Sjef Barbiers. The syntax of quantified pharases and quantitative clitics / Anna Cardinaletti and Giuliana Giusti. Temporal reference / Fabio Pianesi. Topicalization in Asian languages / Liejiong Xu. Unexpected wide-scope phenomena / E.G. Ruys. Verb clusters, verb raising, and restructuring / Susi Wurmbrand. Verb particle constructions / Martin Haiden. Wh-in-situ / Josef Bayer.