Stepanov / Fanselow / Vogel Minimality Effects in Syntax

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019736-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 70, 452 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]ISSN

The volume is a collection of 12 papers which focus on empirical and theoretical issues associated with syntactic phenomena falling under the rubric of Relativized Minimality (Rizzi 1990) or, in more recent terms, Minimal Link Condition (MLC, Chomsky 1995). The bulk of the papers are based on the ideas presented at the Workshop "Minimal Link Effects in Minimalist and Optimality Theoretic Syntax" which took place at the University of Potsdam on March 21-22, 2002.

All contributors are prominent specialists in the topic of syntactic Minimality. The empirical phenomena brought to bear on Minimality/MLC in the present volume include, but not limited to:

• Superiority effects in multiple wh-questions, including those with 'D-linked' wh-phrase(s) (Müller, Haida, Haider)
• Stylistic Fronting in Germanic and Romance (Fisher, Poole)
• Transitive sentences in Hindi-type ergative languages (Stepanov)
• Word order 'freezing' effects in double-nominative constructions in Korean (Lee)
• Double object constructions in Greek (Anagnostoupoulou)
• Remnant constituent displacement in German and Japanese (Hale and Legendre)

Nine of the proposed accounts are couched in the Minimalist framework (Chomsky 1995, 2000, 2001), three in the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). Thematically, the contributions divide into three groups addressing the following major questions:

How can apparent violations of syntactic Minimality/MLC be accounted for? (Haida, Stepanov, Poole, Fisher, Anagnostopoulou)

What is the status of MLC? Is it a primitive or a theorem in the grammar? (Müller, Fanselow, Lechner, Vogel, Lee, Haider)

Can Minimality phenomena shed decisive evidence in favor of a derivational (Minimalist type) or a representational (Optimality theory like) framework? (Hale and Legendre, Haider)

Zielgruppe

Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Linguistics, Psyc

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stepanov, Arthur

Fanselow, Gisbert

Vogel, Ralf

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;Introduction;7
4;On clitics, feature movement, and double object alternations;21
5;PF merger in stylistic fronting and object shift;43
6;The MLC and derivational economy;79
7;Stylistic fronting: a contribution to information structure;131
8;The superiority conspiracy: Four constraints and a processing effect;153
9;Minimal links, remnant movement, and (Non-)derivational grammar;183
10;Extending and reducing the MLC;211
11;Minimality in a lexicalist Optimality Theory;247
12;Phrase impenetrability and wh-intervention;295
13;MLC violations: Implications for the syntax/phonology interface;333
14;Ergativity, Case and the Minimal Link Condition;373
15;Correspondence in OT syntax and Minimal Link effects;407
16;Backmatter;449

Über Autor(innen)

Artur Stepanov ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Potsdam. Gisbert Fanselow ist Professor am Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Potsdam. Ralf Vogel ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Potsdam.

Artur Stepanov ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Potsdam. Gisbert Fanselow ist Professor am Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Potsdam. Ralf Vogel ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Potsdam.