Ways of Structure Building

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-964494-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 673 g

Reihe: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

This volume addresses some of the most important approaches to the following key questions in contemporary generative syntactic theory: What are the operations available for (syntactic) structure-building in natural languages? What are the triggers behind them? and Which constraints are involved in the operations? Internationally recognised scholars and young researchers propose new answers on the basis of detailed discussions of a wide range of phenomena (Gapping,
Right-Node-Raising, Comparative Deletion, Across-The-Board movement, Tough-constructions, Nominalizations, Scope interactions, Wh-movement, A-movement, Case and Agreement relations, among others). Their discussions draw on evidence from a rich variety of languages, including Brazilian Portuguese,
Bulgarian, Croatian, English, German, Icelandic, Japanese, Spanish, Vata, and Vietnamese.

The proposals presented illustrate the shift in the locus of the explanation of linguistic phenomena that characterizes contemporary linguistic theory: a shift, in many cases, from a model which relies on properties of systems external to narrow syntax (such as the Lexicon or the Phonetic Form component) to one which relies on properties of the structure-building mechanisms themselves. The volume will interest researchers and students of theoretical linguistics from advanced undergraduate and
above.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and students of theoretical linguistics from advanced undergraduate and above.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Uribe-Etxebarria, Myriam

Valmala, Vidal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Myriam uribe-Etxebarria and Vidal Valmala: Overview
Part I: Merge and Beyond
2: Dirk Bury and Hiroyuki Uchida: Constituent Structure Sets II
3: Barbara Citko: A Parallel Merge Solution to the Merchant/Johnson paradox
4: Antonio Fábregas: Evidence for Multidominance in Spanish Agentive Nominalizations
5: Martina Gracanin-Yusek: Clitic Placement and Multidominance
6: Jairo Nunes: Sideward Movement: triggers, timing, and ouptuts
7: Mark de Vries: Unconventional Mergers
Part II: Triggers and Constraints
8: Jun Abe and Norbert Hornstein: 'Lasnik-effects' and String-vacuous ATB Movement
9: Theresa Biberauer and Michelle Sheehan: Disharmony, Antisymmetry, and the Final-over-Final Constraint
10: Zeljko Boskovic: Don't Feed Your Movements When you Shift Your Objects
11: Samuel David Epstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara, and T. Daniel Seely: Structure Building That can't be
12: Antje Lahne: Specificity-driven Syntactic Derivation
13: Winfried Lechner: Structure BUilding From Below: more on Survive and covert movement
14: Yoichi Miyamoto: On Transparent Adjuncts in Japanese
15: Miki Obata and Samuel David Epstein: Feature-splitting Internal merge: the case of Tough-Constructions
Bibliography
Language Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Valmala, Vidal
Vidal Valmala is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country. Among his research topics are ellipsis and the syntactic realization of topic and focus. He has published articles on floating quantification, fragments, VP-ellipsis, and Comparative Correlatives.

Uribe-Etxebarria, Myriam
Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria is Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country. Her research interest focuses on the syntax-semantics interface, with particular attention to the grammar of temporal relations, wh-questions, and focus. She is the author of Interface Licensing Conditions on Negative Polarity Items: A Theory of Polarity and Tense Interactions (UPV-EHU, 2004), and co-editor of Theoretical Issues at the Morphology-Syntax Interface (ASJU, UPV-EHU, 1997), Romance Linguistics: Theoretical Perspectives (John Benjamins, 1998), and Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque: Syntax and Semantics (John Benjamins, in press). She has published her work in various journals and edited volumes.

Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria is Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country. Her research interest focuses on the syntax-semantics interface, with particular attention to the grammar of temporal relations, wh-questions, and focus. She is the author of Interface Licensing Conditions on Negative Polarity Items: A Theory of Polarity and Tense Interactions (UPV-EHU, 2004), and co-editor of Theoretical
Issues at the Morphology-Syntax Interface (ASJU, UPV-EHU, 1997), Romance Linguistics: Theoretical Perspectives (John Benjamins, 1998), and Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque: Syntax and Semantics (John Benjamins, in press). She has published her work in various journals and edited volumes.

Vidal Valmala is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country. Among his research topics are ellipsis and the syntactic realization of topic and focus. He has published articles on floating quantification, fragments, VP-ellipsis, and Comparative Correlatives.