series: Interface Explorations [IE]

Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Mouton

Interface Explorations [IE]

Herausgegeben von: Artemis Alexiadou und Ruth Kramer

ISSN: 1861-4167

Übersicht
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This series consists of collected volumes and monographs about specific issues dealing with interfaces among the subcomponents of linguistic structure: phonology-morphology, phonology-syntax, syntax-semantics, syntax-morphology, and syntax-lexicon. Recent linguistic research has recognized that the subcomponents of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. What is currently under debate is the actual range of such interactions and their most appropriate representation in grammar, and this is precisely the focus of this series. Specifically, it provides a general overview of various topics by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components. The books function as a state-of- the-art report of research.

To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Meredith Keffer.

Information zu Autoren / Herausgebern

Artemis Alexiadou, ZAS & Humboldt University Berlin, Germany; Ruth Kramer, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

Fachgebiete

book: Manner Modification at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2025

Manner Modification at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Adjectives and Adverbs

Sascha Alexeyenko

Band 37 in dieser Reihe

The book develops a theory of manner modification with both manner adjectives and manner adverbs in its scope. It proposes an analysis that keeps the semantics uniform across all of its uses, but remains strictly compositional while being grounded in a careful independent examination of its (morpho)syntax. As a result, it offers a holistic and at the same time restrictive theory, which has been largely missing in this domain so far.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110712926
ISBN:: 9783110712926
ISBN:: 9783110712971
ISBN:: 9783110712841
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Interfaces
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Extraposition from NP in English

Buch 2020

Extraposition from NP in English

Explorations at the Syntax-Phonology Interface

Edward Göbbel

Band 36 in dieser Reihe

The impact of phonology on word order phenomena has become a central research agenda ever since the Minimalist Program emphasised the role of interface conditions on syntactic operations.

This book is a detailed study of extraposition from NP, which has traditionally been the domain of syntactic investigation and information-structural studies. After an examination of syntactic accounts of PP and relative clause extraposition, which are largely found inadequate, it explores the possibility of phonological solutions by comparing the prosodic structure of canonical and extraposed word orders. Particular attention is payed to the informational status of extraposed constituents and the focus structure of the sentence. The book shows that extraposition optimises the prosodic structure of sentences and in some cases their rhythmic structure, while focus structure only plays a role in extraposition of defocused constituents. The book further argues that extraposition occurs at PF, while certain binding-theoretical consequences of extraposition can be resolved by LF movement. With its focus on the interface between syntax and phonology, the book will appeal to researchers working on either domain.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501509858
ISBN:: 9781501509858
ISBN:: 9781501516719
ISBN:: 9781501509834
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Morphology-Semantics Mismatches and the Nature of Grammatical Features

Buch 2021

Morphology-Semantics Mismatches and the Nature of Grammatical Features

Peter W. Smith

Band 35 in dieser Reihe

Hybrid nouns have a morphological shape that doesn’t match their semantic interpretation. Such nouns pose clear and interesting questions for the nature of grammatical features. For instance, how does a single feature contribute distinct information values to different components of the grammar? Furthermore, what does this observation reveal about the syntax, often taken to mediate between the morphology and the semantics?
This book studies hybrid nouns and argues that a single grammatical feature is comprised of two halves, a semantic half and a morphological half, that coexist in the syntax before being sent to the respective interfaces. Viewing features in this way allows us a new look at numerous types of hybrid nouns, such as Imposter constructions, nouns of collection, as well as nouns like ‘furniture’ that straddle the mass-count distinction. Moreover, the study of the agreement patterns of hybrid nouns shows that semantic features behave differently to morphological features under agreement, providing a novel insight into the nature of the mechanism that underlies morphosyntactic agreement.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501511127
ISBN:: 9781501511127
ISBN:: 9781501517198
ISBN:: 9781501510991
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Verb Second

Buch 2020

Verb Second

Grammar Internal and Grammar External Interfaces

Horst Lohnstein, Antonios Tsiknakis

Band 34 in dieser Reihe

This book addresses a general phenomenon in the European languages: verb second. The articles provide a comprehensive survey of synchronic vs. diachronic developments in the Germanic and Romance languages.
New theoretical insights into the interaction of the properties of verbal mood and syntactic structure building lead to hypotheses about the mutual influence of these systems. The diachronic change in the syntax together with changes in the inflectional system show the interdependence between the syntactic and the inflectional component.
The fact that the subjunctive can license verb second in dependent clauses reveals further dependencies between these subsystems of grammar. "Fronting finiteness" furthermore constitutes an instance of a main clause phenomenon. Whether "assertion" or "at-issueness" are encoded through this grammatical process will be a matter in the debates discussed in the book. Moreover, information structure appears to be directly related to the fronting of other constituents in front of the finite verb. Questions concerning the interrelations between these various subcomponents of the grammatical system are investigated.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501508141
ISBN:: 9781501508141
ISBN:: 9781501516580
ISBN:: 9781501508042
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Information Structure Within Interfaces

Buch 2020

Information Structure Within Interfaces

Consequences for the Phrase Structure

Asli Gürer

Band 32 in dieser Reihe

The realization of information structural units has been intriguing as information packaging has reflections in the semantic, pragmatic, syntactic and prosodic domains. This book extends the investigation by bringing data from all these domains and presenting an analysis for the model of grammar.
Based on three-way classification for information packaging, semantic investigation presents insights on compositionality and positional restrictions for topic, focus and discourse anaphoric phrases. The prosodic experimental studies reveal how focus shapes prosody and how diverse languages encode such information packaging. Drawing on the findings of experimental studies reflecting the interaction of information structure with quantifier scope, negation and aspectual markers,clause internal functional projections and scope domains are proposed in the syntactic analysis. The analysis offers new perspectives for movement operations, functional categories, phases which are central themes for the Minimalist Program.
Building on the investigation of information structure within semantic, prosodic, syntactic perspectives, the book will appeal to researchers working on either of these domains or their interfaces.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505584
ISBN:: 9781501505584
ISBN:: 9781501526718
ISBN:: 9781501515002
ISBN:: 9781501505560
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Morpheme

Buch 2015

The Morpheme

A Theoretical Introduction

David Embick

Band 31 in dieser Reihe

This book develops a theory of the morpheme in the framework of Distributed Morphology. Particular emphasis is devoted to the way in which functional morphemes receive their phonological form post-syntactically, through the operation of Vocabulary Insertion. In addition to looking closely at syncretism, the primary motivation for Vocabulary Insertion, the book examines allomorphy, blocking, and other key topics in the theory of the morpheme.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502569
ISBN:: 9781501510786
ISBN:: 9781501502569
ISBN:: 9781501516214
ISBN:: 9781501502583
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces

Buch 2015

Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces

Andreas Trotzke, Josef Bayer

Band 30 in dieser Reihe

Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics. Since complex syntax is clearly evidenced by sentential embedding and since embedding of one clause/phrase in another is taken to signal recursivity of the grammar, the capacity of computing syntactic complexity is of central interest to the recent hypothesis that syntactic recursion is the defining property of natural language. In the light of more recent claims according to which complex syntax is not a universal property of all living languages, the issue of how to detect and define syntactic complexity has been revived with a combination of classical and new arguments. This volume contains contributions about the formal complexity of natural language, about specific issues of clausal embedding, and about syntactic complexity in terms of grammar-external interfaces in the domain of language acquisition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614517900
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-785-6
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-790-0
ISBN:: 9781501501012
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Syntax-Information Structure Interface

Buch 2014

The Syntax-Information Structure Interface

Clausal Word Order and the Left Periphery in Galician

Timothy Gupton

Band 29 in dieser Reihe

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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512059
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-271-4
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-205-9
ISBN:: 9781501500305
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Portugiesisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Deverbal Adjectives at the Interface

Buch 2014

Deverbal Adjectives at the Interface

A Crosslinguistic Investigation into the Morphology, Syntax and Semantics of -ble

Isabel Oltra-Massuet

Band 28 in dieser Reihe

This volume explores the syntax, semantics, and morphology of -ble adjectives within Distributed Morphology. It presents a decompositional analysis of -ble that captures intralinguistic variation and accounts for morphologically more complex languages. It contributes novel empirical data. First, the grammaticality of -ble formations derived from unergatives and unaccusatives in Spanish is argued to be a function of their exoskeletal properties in interaction with language-specific facts and features of the grammar of cognation, degrees, quantification and Aktionsart. A previously unnoticed correlation between the Spanish data and a cognate configuration with unaccusatives in English reinforces the proposal. Second, the grammaticality of denominal -ble adjectives in Romance and their absence in English relates aspects of the internal structure of -ble to issues pertaining to the eventive properties and syntactico-semantic status of the base nouns. This crosslinguistic proposal implicates central issues in the syntax-semantics-morphology interface, e.g. cross category derivations, locus of variation, or status of impossible words.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614510659
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-064-2
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-065-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2013

Repairs

The Added Value of Being Wrong

Patrick Brandt, Eric Fuß

Band 27 in dieser Reihe

Grammatische Strukturen verbinden Systeme des Denkens und Systeme des Sprechens und Zeigens, deren jeweilige Bedingungen kaum zueinander zu passen scheinen. Der Reparaturansatz betrachtet den regulären Umgang mit Übersetzungsproblemen innerhalb des grammatischen Systems und an seinen Schnittstellen als konstitutiv für Expressivität und Ökonomie der Sprache. Reparaturen sind produktive Wiedergutmachungs- und Anpassungsmechanismen, die linguistische Phänomene als Reflex der Kompensation für derivationelle oder interpretative Schäden erklären.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614510796
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-080-2
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-079-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity

Buch 2012

Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity

Philip Hoole, Lasse Bombien, Marianne Pouplier, Christine Mooshammer, Barbara Kühnert

Band 26 in dieser Reihe

There is currently a wealth of activity involving the analysis of complex segmental sequences from phonetic, phonological and psycholinguistic perspectives. This volume draws from selected contributions to the conference Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity held in Munich in August 2008. Consonant sequences, whether occurring within individual lexical items or emerging in running speech at word boundaries, give particularly striking evidence for the temporal complexity of human speech. But contributions also consider the integration of tonal and vocalic elements into syllable structure. The main aim of the volume is to do justice to this complexity by bringing together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds.

The book is organized into four main sections entitled ‘Phonology and Typology’, ‘Production: Analysis and Models’, ‘Acquisition’, and ‘Assimilation and reduction in connected speech’.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614510772
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-076-5
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-077-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonetik
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Prosody and Meaning

Buch 2013

Prosody and Meaning

Gorka Elordieta, Pilar Prieto

Band 25 in dieser Reihe

Based on the Workshop on Prosody and Meaning in Barcelona on September 17-18, 2009, this volume brings together researchers working on issues of the prosodic encoding and expression of sentence-level meaning. The contributions to the book result from a vivid exchange of research ideas and research methodologies on issues related to the relationship between prosody and meaning and from stimulating discussions and collaborative work between researchers coming from different perspectives.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110261790
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026007-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026179-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Syntax and Morphology Multidimensional

Buch 2011

Syntax and Morphology Multidimensional

Andreas Nolda, Oliver Teuber

Band 24 in dieser Reihe

This volume collects papers that discuss theoretical or empirical problems from a multidimensional view of syntax and morphology, presupposing frameworks such as LFG, HPSG, the Parallel Architecture, or Integrational Linguistics, where syntactic and morphological objects are conceived as constructs with multiple, interrelated components.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110238754
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023874-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023875-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks

Buch 2010

The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks

Artemis Alexiadou, Monika Rathert

Band 23 in dieser Reihe

The volume explores the syntax of nominalizations, focusing on deverbal and deadjectival nominalizations, but also discussing the syntax of genitives and the syntax of distinct readings of nominalizations. The volume investigates the morpholgy-syntax interface as well as the semantics-syntax interface in the domain of nominalizations. The theoretical frameworks include distributed morphology, and minimalist syntax. Data from a variety of languages are taken into consideration, e.g. Hebrew, Bulgarian, Serbian, French, Spanish, German and English.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110245875
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024586-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024587-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks

Buch 2010

The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks

Monika Rathert, Artemis Alexiadou

Band 22 in dieser Reihe

The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory. Data from a variety of languages are taken into account, including Hungarian, Italian, French, German and English. The papers discuss the semantics of distinct readings of nominalizations and meaning differences observed between competing affixes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226546
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022653-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022654-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Turbulent Sounds

Buch 2010

Turbulent Sounds

An Interdisciplinary Guide

Susanne Fuchs, Martine Toda, Marzena Zygis

Band 21 in dieser Reihe

No sound class requires so much basic knowledge of phonology, acoustics, aerodynamics, and speech production as obstruents (turbulent sounds) do. This book is intended to bridge a gap by introducing the reader to the world of obstruents from a multidisciplinary perspective. It starts with a review of typological processes, continues with various contributions to the phonetics-phonology interface, explains the realization of specific turbulent sounds in endangered languages, and finishes with surveys of obstruents from a sociophonetic, physical and pathological perspective.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226584
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022657-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022658-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonetik
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Neurolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces

Buch 2009

Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces

Katalin É. Kiss

Band 20 in dieser Reihe

This book clarifies - on the basis of mainly Hungarian data - basic issues concerning the category ‘adverb,’ the function ‘adverbial,’ and the grammar of adverbial modification. It argues for the PP analysis of adverbials, and claims that they enter the derivation via left- and right-adjunction. Their merge-in position is determined by the interplay of syntactic, semantic, and prosodic factors. The semantically motivated constraints discussed also include a type restriction affecting adverbials semantically incorporated into the verbal predicate, an obligatory focus position for scalar adverbs representing negative values of bidirectional scales, cooccurrence restrictions between verbs and adverbials involving incompatible subevents, etc. The order and interpretation of adverbials in the postverbal domain is shown to be affected by such phonologically motivated constraints as the Law of Growing Constituents, and by intonation phrase restructuring. The shape of the light-headed chain arising in the course of locative PP incorporation is determined by morpho-phonological requirements. The types of adverbs and adverbials analyzed include locatives, temporals, comitatives, epistemic adverbs, adverbs of degree, manner, counting, and frequency, quantificational adverbs, and adverbial participles.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214802
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021403-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021480-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Slavische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Information Structure and its Interfaces

Buch 2009

Information Structure and its Interfaces

Lunella Mereu

Band 19 in dieser Reihe

The volume presents recent results in the field of Information Structure based on research on Italian and Italian dialects, and on further studies on several typologically different languages. The central idea is that Information Structure is not an exclusive matter of syntax but an interface issue which involves the interplay of at least the phonological, morpho-syntactic and semantic-pragmatic levels of analysis. In addition, the volume is based on the study of actual language use and it adopts a cross-linguistic point of view.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110213973
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020877-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021397-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Explorations of Phase Theory: Features and Arguments

Buch 2009

Explorations of Phase Theory: Features and Arguments

Kleanthes K. Grohmann

Band 18 in dieser Reihe

This is the first volume dedicated to the study of formal features and the expression of arguments within Phase Theory, the latest model of syntactic theorizing within the Minimalist Program. The collection addresses the nature of formal features and their role in the syntactic computation as well as checking mechanisms and configurations. It also investigates theoretical issues underlying the nature of syntactic arguments and their licensing (argument structure at large) and specific grammatical operations involving arguments (abstract and morphological case, empty elements, passivization, negation, and aspect).

The chapters presented in this volume provide case studies from several, typologically unrelated languages. Apart from novel analyses of new as well as well-known facts, the contributions also provide interesting aspects of and challenges for Phase Theory in general, by critically exploring a number of theoretical extensions, proposing new syntactic mechanisms, and sharpening our tools for linguistic analysis.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110213966
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020520-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021396-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Explorations of Phase Theory: Interpretation at the Interfaces

Buch 2009

Explorations of Phase Theory: Interpretation at the Interfaces

Kleanthes K. Grohmann

Band 17 in dieser Reihe

Over the past decade, many issues leading towards refining the model have been identified for a theory of syntax under minimalist assumptions. One of the central questions within the current theoretical model, Phase Theory, is architectural in nature: Assuming a minimal structure of the grammar, how does the computational system manipulate the grammar to construct a well-formed derivation that takes items from the mental lexicon to the interpretive interfaces? This collection addresses this issue by exploring the design of the grammar and the tools of the theory in order to shed light on the nature of the interpretive interfaces, Logical Form and Phonetic Form, and their role in the syntactic computation.

The chapters in this volume collectively contribute to a better understanding of the mapping from syntax to PF on the one hand, especially issues concerning prosody and Spell-Out, and semantic interpretation at LF on the other, including interpretive and architectural issues of more conceptual nature. Apart from careful case studies and specific data analysis for a number of languages, the material contained here also has repercussions for Phase Theory in general, theoretical underpinnings as well as modifications of syntactic mechanisms.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110213959
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020521-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021395-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Phonological Domains

Buch 2009

Phonological Domains

Universals and Deviations

Janet Grijzenhout, Baris Kabak

Band 16 in dieser Reihe

This book puts together recent theoretical developments in prosodic phonology by leading specialists and presents language particular investigations on the morphosyntax-phonology interface by expert linguists working on diverse languages such as German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217100
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020540-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021710-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Agreement Restrictions

Buch 2008

Agreement Restrictions

Roberta D'Alessandro, Susann Fischer, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson

Band 15 in dieser Reihe

This book brings together scholars who have been working on agreement restrictions within the generative framework. The articles range from syntactic to morphological approaches, investigating different domains of agreement restrictions, such as the Person Case Constraint, nominative objects, and Quirky Case Restrictions in a series of European and Non-European languages, providing new data and novel analyses for both, new and well-known facts. This book collects different and relevant studies in this field and gives a general overview of the different theoretical approaches concerned with the morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of agreement restriction phenomena.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207835
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020065-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020783-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Q-Adverbs as Selective Binders

Buch 2008

Q-Adverbs as Selective Binders

The Quantificational Variability of Free Relatives and Definite DPs

Stefan Hinterwimmer

Band 14 in dieser Reihe

This book deals with the interpretation of adverbially quantified sentences containing definite DPs and Free Relatives (FR) Thereby, it concentrates on the origins of Quantificational Variability Effects (QVEs), i.e. readings according to which the respective quantificational adverb seems to quantify over the individuals denoted by the respective DP/FR.
QVEs are usually discussed only in connection with singular indefinites and bare plurals. This book therefore provides the first comprehensive account of QVEs with definite DPs and Free Relatives (while also discussing singular indefinites and bare plurals). Presenting new empirical observations and arguments for the assumption that Q-adverbs quantify over situations exclusively, it is also an important contribution to the theoretical debate concerning the quantificational domain of Q-adverbs..
It is of interest to linguists working in formal semantics and the syntax-semantics interface as well as to philosophers of language who are interested in adverbial quantification and situation semantics. Furthermore, it offers an introduction to the core issues of situation semantics and adverbial quantification and is therefore accessible to graduate students interested in these topics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199208
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019629-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019920-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Advances in the Theory of the Lexicon

Buch 2006

Advances in the Theory of the Lexicon

Dieter Wunderlich

Band 13 in dieser Reihe

The book investigates the interface structure of the lexicon from various perspectives, including typology and processing. It surveys work on verb classes, verb-noun similarities, semantic representations, concepts and constructions of polysynthetic languages, research on the processing of inflectional and derivational elements, and new work on inheritance-based network models. The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in all fields of linguistics and in the cognitive sciences.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197815
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019019-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019781-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Neurolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Formal Properties of Measurement Constructions

Buch 2007

Formal Properties of Measurement Constructions

Kimiko Nakanishi

Band 12 in dieser Reihe

This book investigates the semantics and syntax-semantics interface of measurement constructions, such as (non-)split quantifiers and comparatives. The cross-linguistic investigation reveals that seemingly diverse constructions can be categorized into two classes depending on whether they measure nominal or verbal predicates, and shows that the classification accounts for why certain constructions have certain characteristics concerning distributivity and single-event predicates. Throughout the book, particular emphasis is placed on issues of compositionality.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198485
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018598-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019848-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Deutsch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Time in Natural Language

Buch 2005

Time in Natural Language

Syntactic Interfaces with Semantics and Discourse

Ellen Thompson

Band 11 in dieser Reihe

Time in Natural Language investigates the relationship between the syntactic and semantic representations of sentences within the domain of tense. Assuming that tenses are semantically composed of three distinct times, Thompson proposes that these times map onto the syntax in a regular fashion: each time is associated with a unique syntactic head. Adopting the Minimalist approach to syntactic theory, this approach makes possible insightful analyses of syntactic structures involving temporal dependency.

Thompson argues that, depending on their adjunction site, temporal adverbials modify different parts of the tense structure of the clause. Locating the Event time within VP, it is correctly predicted that an adverbial that modifies the Event time is adjoined to VP. On the other hand, since the Reference time is argued to be within AspP, when an adverbial is adjoined to AspP, it modifies the Reference time. The syntax of temporal adjunct clauses is accounted for in a similar fashion; they may be adjoined either to VP, where they are interpreted as simultaneous with the matrix event, or to AspP, where they are interpreted as nonsimultaneous.

Thompson shows that the analysis sheds light on the less-studied issue of the temporal syntax of arguments. Subjects with gerundive relative clauses are claimed to be interpreted in VP at LF when the relative clause is temporally dependent on the Event time of the main clause, and in TP when the relative clause is dependent on the Speech time of the main clause. By extending the syntactic proposal to investigate the discourse-level effects of tense, an original analysis of the discourse representation of tense is proposed. Thompson argues that the discourse representation of tense is based on same primitives and subject to the same principles as the syntactic representation of tense, based on an in-depth examination of the structure and meaning of the temporal discourse adverb then.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197563
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018414-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019756-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Explorations in Nominal Inflection

Buch 2004

Explorations in Nominal Inflection

Gereon Müller, Lutz Gunkel, Gisela Zifonun

Band 10 in dieser Reihe

Explorations in Nominal Inflection is a collection of new articles that focus on nominal inflection markers in different languages. The studies are concerned with the morphological inventories of markers, their syntactic distribution, and, importantly, the interaction between the two. As a result, the contributions shed new light on the morphology/syntax interface, and on the role of morpho-syntactic features in mediating between the two components. Issues that feature prominently throughout are inflection class, case, gender, number, animacy, syncretism, iconicity, agreement, the status of paradigms, the nature of morpho-syntactic features, and the structure of nominal projections. Recurrent analytical tools involve the concepts of competition (optimality, specificity), underspecification, and economy, in various theoretical frameworks.

James P. Blevins: Inflection Classes and Economy
Bernd Wiese: Categories and Paradigms. On Underspecification in Russian Declension

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197501
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018287-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019750-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery

Buch 2004

The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery

Horst Lohnstein, Susanne Trissler

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

The left periphery of clausal structures has been a prominent topic of research in generative linguistics during the last decades. Closer examination of its properties unfolds a rich array of perspectives like the status of barriers for extraction and government, the articulation of the topic focus structure, the fixation of wh-scope, the marking of clausal types, the interaction of syntactic structure with inflectional morphology as well as the determination of sentence mood and illocutionary force to mention just a few. The purpose of this book is to collect different and relevant studies in this field and to give a general overview of the various theoretical approaches concerned with morphological, syntactic and semantic properties together with the diachronic development of the left periphery.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912111
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018121-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091211-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Covert Modality in Non-finite Contexts

Buch 2006

Covert Modality in Non-finite Contexts

Rajesh Bhatt

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

This book investigates the distribution and interpretation of Covert Modality. Covert Modality is modality which we interpret but which is not associated with any lexical item in the structure that we are interpreting. This dissertation investigates a class of environments that involves covert modality. Examples of covert modality include wh-infinitival complements, infinitival relative clauses, purpose clauses, the 'have to' construction, and the 'is to' construction (cf. 1):

1a. Tim knows [how to solve the problem]. ("Tim knows how one/he could/should solve the problem.")
1b. Jane found [a book to draw cartoons in] for Sara. ("Jane found a book for Sara one could/should draw cartoons in.")
1c. [The man to fix the sink] is here. ("The man whose purpose is to fix the sink is here.")
1d. Sue went to Torino [to buy a violin]. ("Sue went to Torino so that she could buy a violin.")
1e. Bill has to reach Philadelphia before noon. ("Bill must reach Philadelphia before noon.")
1f. Will is to leave tomorrow. ("Will is scheduled/supposed to leave tomorrow.")

The interpretation of (1a-f) involves modality; however, there is no lexical item that seems to be the source of the modality. What (1a-f) have in common is that they involve infinitivals. This book addresses the following questions about covert modality: what is the source of this modality, what are its semantic properties, why are some but not all infinitival relatives modal, and why are all infinitival questions modal? The infinitival [+wh] Complementizer is identified as the source of the covert modality. The apparent variability of the force of this modality is related to the particular semantics of this Complementizer. Infinitival relatives that receive a non-modal interpretation are analyzed as being reduced relatives and thus not involving the infinitival [+wh] Complementizer.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197341
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017952-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019734-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Syntactic Structures and Morphological Information

Buch 2003

Syntactic Structures and Morphological Information

Uwe Junghanns, Luka Szucsich

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

The book contains ten papers discussing issues of the relation between syntax and morphology from the perspective of morphologically rich languages including, among others, Indo-European languages, indigenous languages of the Americas, Turkish, and Hungarian. The overall question discussed in this book is to what extent morphological information shows up in syntactic structures and how this information is represented. The authors adopt different theoretical frameworks such as the Derivational Theory of Morphology, Distributed Optimality, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Lexical Decomposition Grammar combined with Linking Theory and OT-like constraints, Paradigm-Based Morphosyntax as well as the Principles and Parameters Approach of Generative Grammar.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110904758
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017824-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090475-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Prosodic Word in European Portuguese

Buch 2003

The Prosodic Word in European Portuguese

Marina Vigário

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

The book investigates the diagnostics for the prosodic word in European Portuguese, the prosodic organization of various sorts of morphosyntactic objects, and the definition of the prosodic word domain. The book bears on the organization of grammar and phonology, its interface with morphology and syntax, and the nature of phonological representations. Besides focusing primarily on European Portuguese, it also refers to languages such as Italian, Dutch, German, and English, among many others.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110900927
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017713-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090092-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Catalan Clitic System

Buch 2003

The Catalan Clitic System

A Diachronic Perspective on its Syntax and Phonology

Susann Fischer

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

The book is a qualitative and quantitative investigation into the Catalan clitic system from Old to Modern Catalan. Building on the Minimalist Program, the author shows that a number of facts about Old Romance clitic placement that previously have either not been accounted for or have received unsatisfactory treatment can be explained in a principled way once a strict division of labor between syntax and phonology is adopted.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892505
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017613-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089250-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Modifying Adjuncts

Buch 2003

Modifying Adjuncts

Ewald Lang, Claudia Maienborn, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

Unlike the notion of "argument" that is central to modern linguistic theorizing, the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the complementary notion "adjunct" so far have not attracted the attention they deserve. In this volume, leading experts in the field present current approaches to the grammar and pragmatics of adjuncts. The contributions scrutinize i.a. the argument-adjunct distinction, specify conditions of adjunct placement, discuss compositionality issues, and propose new analyses of event-related modification. They are meant to shed new light on an area of linguistic structure that is deemed to be notoriously overlooked.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110894646
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017352-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089464-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Perfect Explorations

Buch 2003

Perfect Explorations

Artemis Alexiadou, Monika Rathert, Arnim von Stechow

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

This volume contains contributions dealing with the syntax, morphology, semantics, and diachronic development of the Perfect and the components it is built on across languages. The volume brings these aspects together, working towards a comprehensive theory of the Perfect which takes into consideration the interfaces between the various components of the grammar. Issues addressed include: the temporal vs. aspectual character of the perfect, the contribution of adverbial modification, the structure of the perfect participle.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110902358
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017229-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090235-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Verb-Particle Explorations

Buch 2002

Verb-Particle Explorations

Nicole Dehé, Ray Jackendoff, Andrew McIntyre, Silke Urban

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

The contributions in this book are a representative cross-section of recent research on verb-particle constructions. The syntactic, semantic, morphological, and psycholinguistic phenomena associated with the constructions in English, Dutch, German, and Swedish are analyzed from the various different theoretical viewpoints.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110902341
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017228-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090234-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

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