Ways of structure building /
This volume addresses some of the most important approaches to the following key questions in contemporary generative syntactic theory: What are the operations available for (syntactic) structure-building in natural languages? What are the triggers behind them? and Which constraints are involved in...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
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2012.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; General Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 Overview; Part I. Merge and beyond; 2 Constituent Structure Sets II; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Constituent structure sets (CSS); 2.3 Representational collapsibility; 2.4 German V2 in CSS (Bury 2003, 2005); 2.5 Wh-extraction; 2.6 PF linearization; 2.7 CSS in comparison; 2.8 Conclusion; 3 A Parallel Merge Solution to the Merchant/Johnson Paradox; 3.1 Parallel Merge: a new way of structure building; 3.2 Voice mismatches in VP ellipsis, pseudogapping, and gapping constructions; 3.3 Small conjunct account
- 3.4 A Parallel Merge approach to gapping3.5 Conclusion; 4 Evidence for Multidominance in Spanish Agentive Nominalizations; 4.1 The empirical problem and its relevance; 4.2 Empirical data: affixes that cancel argument structure; 4.3 How a multidominance account can explain these cases; 4.4 Why a multidominance account is necessary; 4.5 Summary and conclusions; 5 Clitic Placement and Multidominance; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Clitic je in non-MD structures; 5.3 Q&Qs in Croatian; 5.4 German Subjektlücke in finiten Sätzen; 5.5 Constraint on Sharing; 5.6 Conclusion
- 6 Sideward Movement: Triggers, Timing, and Outputs6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Some examples of sideward movement; 6.3 Preventing overgeneration; 6.4 Sideward movement and noncanonical phonetic realization of copies; 6.5 Wh-movement and adjunct control; 6.6 Morphological sideward movement; 6.7 Concluding remarks; 7 Unconventional Mergers; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Internal and external remerge; 7.3 Parenthetical Merge; 7.4 Combining Parenthetical Merge and external remerge in amalgams; 7.5 Conclusions; Part II. Triggers and constraints; 8 "Lasnik-Effects" and String-Vacuous ATB Movement
- 8.1 Introduction8.2 The ATB movement analysis of Right-Node-Raising: Sabbagh's (2007) approach; 8.3 Proposal; 8.4 Against the Right/Left Edge Restriction; 8.5 Speculations on some further consequences; 8.6 Conclusion; 9 Disharmony, Antisymmetry, and the Final-over-Final Constraint; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 The Final-over-Final Constraint; 9.3 FOFC and the LCA; 9.4 CP extraposition; 9.5 Accounting for CP extraposition; 9.6 Conclusion; 10 Don't Feed Your Movements When You Shift Your Objects; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Don't feed your movements; 10.3 Icelandic object shift
- 11 Structure Building That Can't Be11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Valuation-induced Transfer: a problem; 11.3 Resolving the before/after problem; 11.4 Deducing cyclic Transfer; 11.5 Consequences; 12 Specificity-driven Syntactic Derivation; 12.1 Introduction; 12.2 Theoretical background; 12.3 Deriving Minimal Link Condition effects; 12.4 Deriving anti-MLC effects; 12.5 Outlook; 13 Structure Building From Below: More on Survive and Covert Movement; 13.1 Introduction; 13.2 Defining repulsion; 13.3 Quantifier scope restrictions; 13.4 TSP and movement; 13.5 Analyzing scope restrictions with TSP