Frascarelli Phases of Interpretation

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019772-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 91, 398 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

This book investigates the concept of , aiming at a structural definition of the three domains that are assumed as the syntactic loci for , namely vP, CP and DP.

In particular, three basic issues are addressed, that represent major questions of syntactic research within the Minimalist Program in the last decade. A) How is the set of minimally necessary syntactic operations to be characterised (including questions about the exact nature of copy and merge, the status of remnant movement, the role of head movement in the grammar), B) How is the set of minimally necessary functional heads to be characterised that determine the built-up and the interpretation of syntactic objects and C) How do these syntactic operations and objects interact with principles and requirements that are thought to hold at the two interfaces.

The concept of phase has also implications for the research on the functional make-up of syntactic objects, implying that functional projections not only apply in a (universally given) hierarchy but split up in various phases pertaining to the head they are related to.

This volume provides major contributions to this ongoing discussion, investigating these issues in a variety of languages (Berber, Dutch, English, German, Modern Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian and West Flemish) and combining the analysis of empirical data with the theoretical insights of the last years.

Zielgruppe

Libraries, Researchers, Academics, Teachers and Advanced Students

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frascarelli, Mara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;Phases and interpretation;11
4;Grafts follow from merge;27
5;An interpretive effect of head movement;55
6;When we do that and when we don’t: A contrastive analysis of VP ellipsis and VP anaphora;81
7;‘HAVE’ = ‘BE’ + PREP(osition): New evidence for the preposition incorporation analysis of clausal possession;117
8;Northern Norwegian degree questions and the syntax of measurement;143
9;Parallels in clausal and nominal periphery;173
10;The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically;197
11;Number agreement and event pluralization: A case study;223
12;The Phase Condition and cyclic Spell-out: Evidence from VP-topicalization;247
13;Parallel phases: a study on the high and low left periphery of Old Italian;271
14;Obviation in subjunctive argument clauses and the first-personal interpretation;305
15;Who is lui? Reference of Italian overt and covert subject pronouns;331
16;Satisfying the Subject Criterion by a non subject: English Locative Inversion and Heavy NP Shift;351
17;Informational focus in Sicilian and the left periphery;373
18;Backmatter;397

Über Autor(innen)

Mara Frascarelli, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.