Putnam Towards a Derivational Syntax

Survive-minimalism
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-8941-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 144, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

This volume explores recent advancements in the Minimalist Program that adopt Stroik’s (1999, 2009) Survive Principle as the principle means of accounting for displacement phenomena in earlier versions of generative theory. These contributions bring to light many advantages and challenges that beset the Survive-minimalist framework, including topics such as the lexicon-syntax relationship, coordinate symmetries, scope, ellipsis, code-switching, and probe-goal relations. Despite the diverse, broad range of topics discussed in this volume, the papers are connected by a renewed investigation of Frampton & Gutmann’s (2002) vision of a crash-proof syntax. This volume provides new and interesting perspectives on theoretical issues that have challenged the Minimalist Program since its inception and will provide ample food for thought for syntacticians working in the Minimalist tradition and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Putnam, Michael T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors
Preface
Part I. Introduction
Traveling without moving: The conceptual necessity of Survive-minimalism
Michael T. Putnam and Thomas Stroik
The numeration in Survive-minimalism
Thomas Stroik
Part II. Studies of movement phenomena and structure building in Survive-minimalism
Long-distance agreement without Probe-Goal relations
Omer Preminger
Musings on the left periphery in West Germanic: German left dislocation and ‘survive’
Gema Chocano
Tense, finiteness and the survive principle: Temporal chains in a crash-proof grammar
Kristin M. Eide
When grammars collide: Code-switching in Survive-minimalism
Michael T. Putnam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto
Using the Survive principle for deriving coordinate (a)symmetries
John R. te Velde
Part III. Covert and non-movement operations in Survive-minimalism
Syntactic identity in Survive-minimalism: Ellipsis and the derivational identity hypothesis
Gregory M. Kobele
Evidence for Survive from covert movement
Winfried Lechner
Language change and survive: Feature economy in the numeration
Elly van Gelderen
Towards a derivational syntax index