The size of things I

Structure building
ISBN: 978-3-98554-016-7
Verlag: Language Science Press

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 246 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 866 g

Reihe: Open generative syntax

This book focuses on the role size plays in grammar. Under the umbrella term size fall the size of syntactic projections, the size of feature content, and the size of reference sets. The contributions in this first volume discuss size and structure building.

The most productive research program in syntax where size plays a central role revolves around clausal complements. Part 1 of Volume I contributes to this program with papers that argue for particular structures of clausal complements, as well as papers that employ sizes of clausal complements to account for other phenomena. The papers in Part 2 of this volume explore the interaction between size and structure building beyond clausal complements, including phenomena in CP, vP, and NP domains. The contributions cover a variety of languages, many of which are understudied.

The book is complemented by Volume II which discusses size effects in movement, agreement, and interpretation.

Zielgruppe

Wissenschaft

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shen, Zheng

Laszakovits, Sabine

Über Autor(innen)

Laszakovits, Sabine
Sabine Laszakovits is a computational linguist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Her research interests are in theoretical and computational syntax and in digital humanities. She has worked on case theory, impersonal passives, relative clauses, and wh-words, and she develops statistical models for German.

Shen, Zheng
Zheng Shen is an Assistant Professor in Linguistics at National University of Singapore. His primary research topics are theoretical and experimental syntax across languages. He has worked on Right Node Raising, multi-dominance, agreement, ellipsis. His work has been published in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Glossa.