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| Author | : Cedric Boeckx |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2008-05-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780191559990 |
This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography. It unifies central components of the grammar and increases the symmetry in syntax. Its central hypothesis has broad empirical application and at the same time reinforces the central premise of minimalism that language is an optimal system. Cedric Boeckx focuses on two core components of grammar: phrase structure and locality. He argues that the domains which render syntactic processes local (such as islands, bounding nodes, barriers, and phases in all their cartographic manifestations) are better understood once reduced to, or combined with, the basic syntactic operation, Merge, and its core representation, the X-bar schema. In a detailed examination of the mechanism of phrasal projection or labelling he shows that viewing chains as X-bar phrases allows conditions on chain formation or movement to be captured. Clearly argued, accessibly written, and illustrated with examples from a wide range of languages, Bare Syntax will appeal to linguists and others interested in syntactic theory at graduate level and above.
| Author | : C. L. Baker |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 676 |
| Release | : 1995-03-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780262521987 |
An authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory. English Syntax is an authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory. The detailed revisions throughout this new edition are aimed at increasing its clarity and usefulness. There are changes in almost every chapter, including a large number of new exercises and several new subsections. In addition there are two new appendixes, the first sketching the relation of English syntax to the wider field of generative syntactic theory, the second summarizing the basic syntactic structures discussed in the body of the text. Specific changes include a fuller discussion, at the beginning of chapter 3, of the difference between complements and modifiers; a more systematic introduction to tree diagrams and what they express, at the end of chapter 3; a new subsection in chapter 4 on how to analyze complex structures; a new discussion of the general nature of missing-phrase constructions in chapter 9; a significant revision of the discussion of comparative clauses in chapter 12; a new discussion of the scope of negation in chapter 15; and, in chapter 16, a new discussion of practical strategies for analyzing conjoined structures.
| Author | : Timothy Gupton |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2014-10-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1614512051 |
It is quite remarkable that, after over a half-century of generative grammar, there is still uncertainty with respect to the analysis of preverbal subjects in a number of languages. According to canonical analyses, preverbal subjects are arguments (A-elements). However, following non-canonical analyses, preverbal subjects are not arguments, but rather A’-elements that behave like topical preverbal direct and indirect objects, which have received a CLLD analysis in the literature (e.g. Cinque 1990). The implications of this debate are far-reaching for generative theory: if preverbal subjects are non-arguments, one must question the universality of the EPP (as in e.g. Alexiadou & Agnostopoulou 1998), as well as its associated features and feature-strengths. Galician is an underdocumented Romance language within the generative paradigm. In this book, I develop an experimental program for establishing clausal word order preferences for a number of information structure contexts. The preference data suggest that preverbal subjects behave like canonical elements, and not CLLD elements. These results inform the model of the preverbal field that I propose for Galician, which also takes into account the enclisis-proclisis divide and reco.
| Author | : Noam Chomsky |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 66 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Generative grammar |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Diana Guillemin |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2011-11-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027284709 |
Within the framework of Chomsky’s Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns, resulted in the occurrence of bare nouns in argument positions. This triggered a shift in noun denotation, from predicative in French to argumental in MC, and accounts for the very different determiner systems of the creole and its lexifier. MC nouns are lexically stored as Kind denoting terms, that share some of the distributional properties of English bare plurals. New MC determiners are analyzed as ‘type shifting operators’ that shift Kinds into predicates, and serve to establish the referential properties of noun phrases. The analysis provides evidence for the universality of semantic features like Definiteness and Specificity, and the mapping of their form and function.
| Author | : Ajiboye, Oladiipo |
| Publisher | : M & J Grand Orbit Communications |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2016-12-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9785416453 |
The Landmarks Series is a research and publications outfit funded by the Landmarks Research Foundation to publish recent outstanding doctoral dissertations on any aspect of Nigerian linguistics, languages, literatures and cultures. This study is a departer from most previous work on Yorùbá Grammar in the sense that rather than being purely a descriptive grammar; it attempts to provide a theoretical analysis of the internal and external syntax of Yorùbá nominal expressions using the Chomskyan Principles and Parameters approach to syntax. This Generative theory attempts to characterize the grammar of all natural languages in terms of a set of universal principles that all languages share, and a set of parameters along which languages may vary. The book emphasizes the empirical motivation behind major theoretical proposals in that framework, and shows how views on the nature of universal grammar and cross-linguistic variation have developed over the years as a consequence of a massive increase in cross-linguistic syntactic research.
| Author | : Jacqueline Guéron |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 684 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780262572170 |
A collection of recent studies by leading scholars that examines the syntactic analysis of time from varying perspectives.
| Author | : Anand Syea |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2013-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1441156380 |
A detailed study of different aspects of the syntax of Mauritian creole within a Chomksyan theoretical framework
| Author | : Marc-Ariel Friedemann |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2014-06-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1317881230 |
This volume contains a collection of studies that survey recent research in developmental linguistics, illustrating the fruitful interaction between comparative syntax and language acquisition. The contributors each analyse a well defined range of acquisition data, aiming to derive them from primitive differences between child and adult grammar. The book covers cross-linguistic and cross-categorial phenomena, shedding light on major developments in this novel and rapidly growing field. Extensions to second language acquisition and neuropathology are also suggested.
| Author | : Andrew Carnie |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 735 |
| Release | : 2014-04-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1317751043 |
The study of syntax over the last half century has seen a remarkable expansion of the boundaries of human knowledge about the structure of natural language. The Routledge Handbook of Syntax presents a comprehensive survey of the major theoretical and empirical advances in the dynamically evolving field of syntax from a variety of perspectives, both within the dominant generative paradigm and between syntacticians working within generative grammar and those working in functionalist and related approaches. The handbook covers key issues within the field that include: • core areas of syntactic empirical investigation, • contemporary approaches to syntactic theory, • interfaces of syntax with other components of the human language system, • experimental and computational approaches to syntax. Bringing together renowned linguistic scientists and cutting-edge scholars from across the discipline and providing a balanced yet comprehensive overview of the field, the Routledge Handbook of Syntax is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in syntactic theory.
