Craenenbroeck Alternatives to Cartography

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-11-021712-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 100, 376 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]ISSN

In the 1980s generative grammar recognized that functional material is able to project syntactic structure in conformity with the X-bar-format. This insight soon led to a considerable increase in the inventory of functional projections. The basic idea behind this line of theorizing, which goes by the name of cartography, is that sentence structure can be represented as a template of linearly ordered positions, each with their own syntactic and semantic import.

In recent years, however, a number of problems have been raised for this approach. For example, certain combinations of syntactic elements cannot be linearly ordered. In light of such problems a number of alternative accounts have been explored. Some of them propose a new (often interface-related) trigger for movement, while others seek alternative means of accounting for various word order patterns.

These alternatives to cartography do not form a homogeneous group, nor has there thus far been a forum where these ideas could be compared and confronted with one another. This volume fills that gap. It offers a varied and in-depth view on the position taken by a substantial number of researchers in the field today on what is presumably one of the most hotly debated and controversial issues in present-day generative grammar.

Zielgruppe

Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students with an Interest in the Field of Generative Linguistics Cartography).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craenenbroeck, Jeroen van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Table of contents;8
3;Alternatives to cartography: an introduction;10
4;A syntactic typology of topic, focus and contrast;24
5;Focus, topic, and word order: A compositional view;62
6;A focus-binding conspiracy. Left-to-right merge, scrambling and binary structure in European Portuguese;96
7;Phases and variation: Exploring the second factor of the faculty of language;118
8;Varieties of INFL: TENSE, LOCATION, and PERSON;162
9;CAT meets GO: Auxiliary inversion in German verb clusters;212
10;A solution to the conceptual problem of cartography;254
11;Adjective placement and linearization;284
12;Some implications of improper movement for cartography;334
13;There is no alternative to cartography;370
14;Index;384

Über Autor(innen)

Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, University College Brussels, Belgium.