The size of things II

Movement, features, and interpretation
ISBN: 978-3-98554-038-9
Verlag: Language Science Press

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 952 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. This Volume II discusses size effects in movement, agreement, and interpretation while the contributions in Volume I focus on size and structure building.

Part I of Volume II investigates how size interacts with head movement and various phrasal movement including left branch extraction, object shift, tough movement, and multiple wh movement.

Part II of this volume discusses the role size plays in agreement and morphology-related matters like allomorphy.

Contributions in Part III focus on semantic-oriented issues, in particular the size of reference domains and NPI licensing.

The languages covered in this volume include American Sign Language, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian and various other Slavic languages, German, Icelandic, dialects of Italian, Japanese, Nancowry, Panoan languages, and Tamil.

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.