series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Mouton

Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

Herausgegeben von: Norbert Corver und Harry van der Hulst

ISSN: 0167-4331

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The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

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book: Adjunct Islands in English

Buch 2023

Adjunct Islands in English

Theoretical Perspectives and Experimental Evidence

Andreas Kehl

Band 152 in dieser Reihe

Island phenomena are a central topic in generative grammar, especially because of principled exceptions to these general extraction constraints. This volume investigates exceptional extractions from phrasal adjunct islands. It argues, based on experimental studies, that several factors identified in the previous literature are uninformative about locality conditions because they show effects in both extraction and non-extraction sentence forms. The volume develops a multifactorial model to account for these effects without appealing to universal extraction conditions and argues that the relative acceptability of the underlying proposition determines acceptability across sentence types.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111092737
ISBN:: 9783111092737
ISBN:: 9783111094120
ISBN:: 9783111090795
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Interfaces
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Division of Labor between Grammar and the Lexicon

Buch 2024

The Division of Labor between Grammar and the Lexicon

An Exploration of the Syntax and Semantics of Verbal Roots

Josep Ausensi

Band 150 in dieser Reihe

Much recent influential work within Generative grammar argues that syntax plays a key role in grammar and meaning composition, whereas the role of the lexicon is minimal. This book provides evidence that supports a more balanced division of labor between syntax and the lexicon in the creation of meaning. The author argues that grammatical theory can only ignore lexical meaning at its own peril and defends a theoretical standpoint which is underrepresented in much of the current work in this area . This book explores a wide range of relevant empirical data and makes a compelling case for a theory that can make adequate predictions about possible linguistic structures by allowing the lexicon and the grammar to dynamically interact and impose restrictions on each other.　

　

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110789683
ISBN:: 9783110789683
ISBN:: 9783110789676
ISBN:: 9783110789706
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: Strict Negative Concord in Slavic and Finno-Ugric

Buch 2024

Strict Negative Concord in Slavic and Finno-Ugric

Licensing, Structure and Interpretation

Gréte Dalmi, Jacek Witkoś, Piotr Cegłowski

Band 148 in dieser Reihe

Expressing negation is a universal property of all human languages. There is considerable variation, however, in the exact ways negation materializes cross-linguistically. Strict Negative Concord differs both from the Negative Polarity Item strategy and the Asymmetric Negative Concord strategy in that the sentence becomes negative only if the sentence negator is overtly expressed in it, irrespective of how many negative expressions are used.

The central aim of this book is to describe Strict Negative Concord in some Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages. In particular, the volume gives an insight into the forms Strict Negative Concord manifests itself in Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovenian (Slavic), Finnish, Hungarian, Mari (Finno-Ugric) and the closely related Selkup (Samoyedic) to a wide linguistic community. It aims to create a platform for comparison with similar phenomena in well-described European languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110754834
ISBN:: 9783110754834
ISBN:: 9783110754797
ISBN:: 9783110754865
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Syntax and Morphology of English Verbs

Buch 2022

The Syntax and Morphology of English Verbs

Patterns that Matter

Joseph Embley Emonds

Band 147 in dieser Reihe

The book provides a detailed empirical approach to constructing grammatical analysis and theory, in particular the analysis of English verbs. It develops an integrated formal description of the English verbal system and offers several theoretical advances in the treatment of verbs that have escaped formulation until now.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110734379
ISBN:: 9783110734379
ISBN:: 9783110738711
ISBN:: 9783110734416
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric

Buch 2022

Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric

Licensing, Structure and Typology

Gréte Dalmi, Egor Tsedryk, Piotr Cegłowski

Band 145 in dieser Reihe

Even though null subjects have been extensively studied in the past four decades, there is a growing interest in partial null subject languages (e.g. Finnish) and a subtler classification of null subject phenomena overall. This volume aims at contributing to this trend, focusing on Slavic and Finno-Ugric groups, with some extension to Baltic and Samoyedic languages. Interestingly, these groups offer an impressive array of macro- and microvariation. Moreover, given an increasing interest towards the internal structure of the pronominal elements and the role of various types of topics in the left periphery of the sentence structure, the enterprise taken up in this book is to investigate lexical and null, referential and generic subjects in order to understand and compare their feature composition, licensing conditions, and structural properties. Rather than trying to squeeze the studied languages into a predefined set of parameters, this volume highlights some properties that may lead to a refinement of the existing generalizations. It brings together contributors from both generative and typological traditions and will be of interest to any researcher willing to investigate argument-drop in a wider crosslinguistic perspective.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513848
ISBN:: 9781501513848
ISBN:: 9781501520228
ISBN:: 9781501513916
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Slavische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Morphosyntax of Negative Markers

Buch 2020

The Morphosyntax of Negative Markers

A Nanosyntactic Account

Karen De Clercq

Band 144 in dieser Reihe

This book applies the tools of nanosyntax to the natural language phenomenon of negation. Most work on negation is concerned with the study of sentence negation, while low scope negation or constituent negation is hardly ever systematically discussed in the literature. The present book aims to fill that gap, by investigating scopally different negative markers in a sample of 23 typologically diverse languages. A four-way classification of negative markers is argued for and it is shown how meaningful syncretism patterns arise across those four groups of negative markers in the language sample investigated. The syncretisms are meaningful in that they track the natural semantic scope of negation, and provide support to the idea that morphology is not arbitrary, but points to submorphemic structure. Consequently, this study leads to a decomposition of the negative morpheme into five privative features: Tense, Focus, Classification, Quantity and Negation proper. Finally, the book argues that sentence, constituent and lexical negation can all be treated in the same module of the grammar, i.e. syntax.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513756
ISBN:: 9781501513756
ISBN:: 9781501527326
ISBN:: 9781501520068
ISBN:: 9781501513770
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Perspectives on Element Theory

Buch 2021

Perspectives on Element Theory

Sabrina Bendjaballah, Ali Tifrit, Laurence Voeltzel

Band 143 in dieser Reihe

Element Theory (ET) covers a range of approaches that consider privativity a central tenet defining the internal structure of segments. This volume provides an overview and extension of this program, exploring new lines of research within phonology and at its interface (phonetics and syntax). The present collection reflects on issues concerning the definition of privative primes, their interactions, organization, and the operations that constrain phonological and syntactic representations. The contributions reassess theoretical questions, which have been implicitly taken for granted, regarding privativity and its corollaries. On the empirical side, it explores the possibilities ET offers to analyze specific languages and phonological phenomena.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110691948
ISBN:: 9783110691948
ISBN:: 9783111262017
ISBN:: 9783110691917
ISBN:: 9783110691979
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonetik
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Why is ‘Why’ Unique?

Buch 2021

Why is ‘Why’ Unique?

Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties

Gabriela Soare

Band 142 in dieser Reihe

Why is ‘Why’ Unique? Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties considers the behaviour of this peculiar wh-element across many different languages, including Ewe, Trevisan, Italian, Basque, German, Dutch, Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Hebrew. In ten original chapters, the authors explore various aspects of why-questions, such as the way why interacts with V2 constructions in Basque, with a subject clitic in Trevisan or how its morpho-syntactic make-up determines its merge position in Ewe, to mention but a few. Furthermore, a clear-cut distinction is established between high and low reason adverbials which are subsequently examined in why-stripping environments in Dutch.

Beyond why proper, the book explores a special class of wh-expressions in some in-situ languages which give rise to unexpected why-construals with a touch of whining force. The objective is to explain the unusual syntactic position of these wh-expressions as well as their association with peculiar pragmatics. The questions are addressed for Cantonese: are what-initial sentences genuine questions? To what extent are Cantonese what-initial sentences similar to how-initial sentences in Mandarin? Beside these what-as-why questions, a special class of rhetorical questions, the doubly-marked interrogatives in Hebrew, come under scrutiny.

Why is ‘why’ unique also concerns the interface with prosody and several experimental studies investigate precisely this aspect.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110675160
ISBN:: 9783110675160
ISBN:: 9783110675115
ISBN:: 9783111258706
ISBN:: 9783110675214
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Pragmatik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Semiotik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Experimental Insights into the Syntax of Romanian Ditransitives

Buch 2020

Experimental Insights into the Syntax of Romanian Ditransitives

Alina Tigău

Band 141 in dieser Reihe

This book investigates the syntax of Romanian ditransitives building on new experimental data with a view to enable a more accurate understanding of these constructions regarding their underlying configuration(s), the structural import of Differential Object Marking or Clitic Doubling among others.

One first attempt is to explain the (relatively) free word-order manifested by the two internal arguments, and their symmetrical potential for anaphor and possessor binding. Evidence is provided as to the relative hierarchical order of the two object DPs, with the direct object as the lower one.

The featural make-up of the two objects also proves crucial in disentangling the various experimentally uncovered aspects regarding their interaction e.g., differentially marked direct objects bear a [Person] feature and compete with the indirect object in valuing the person feature of the applicative. The feature specification is further refined function of the presence of clitic doubling or the lack thereof.

The experimental insights we gain into the syntax of Romanian ditransitives help us integrate them with their counterparts in Romance thereby contributing to a better cross-linguistic understanding of these constructions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513657
ISBN:: 9781501513657
ISBN:: 9781501518072
ISBN:: 9781501513473
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Morpheme-internal Recursion in Phonology

Buch 2020

Morpheme-internal Recursion in Phonology

Kuniya Nasukawa

Band 140 in dieser Reihe

Generative phonology aims to formalise two distinct aspects of phonological processes: the functional and the representational. Since functions operate on representations, it is clear that the functional aspect is influenced by the form of representations, i.e. different types of representation require different types of rules, principles or constraints. This volume examines the representational issue in phonology and considers what kind of representation is most appropriate for recent models of generative phonology. In particular, it provides the first platform for debate on the place of morpheme-internal structure and on the formal status of phonology in the language faculty, and attempts to identify phonological recursive structure as a means of capturing frequently observed processes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512582
ISBN:: 9781501512582
ISBN:: 9781501526978
ISBN:: 9781501512414
ISBN:: 9781501517778
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Recent Developments in Phase Theory

Buch 2020

Recent Developments in Phase Theory

Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, Cora Pots, Tanja Temmerman

Band 139 in dieser Reihe

The overarching goal of this volume is to explore a number of recent developments in Phase Theory (both theoretical and empirical), thus contributing to our overall understanding of the concept of phases.
The volume is divided into three parts, of which the first focuses on the traditional role played by phases in defining successive cyclicity, while at the same time examining the interaction between that traditional role and Chomsky (2013)’s proposal about labeling. The second part focuses on the question of whether only the highest projection of the clausal and nominal domain, CP and DP, are phases or whether those domains also contain an internal phase: vP and NP/NumP/QP, while the third part contains two chapters that focus on the extent to which ellipsis can be used as a reliable diagnostic for phasehood.
As a whole, the volume provides a detailed and in-depth view on a number of recent developments in Phase Theory, which will likely continue to dominate the debate for several years to come.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501510199
ISBN:: 9781501510199
ISBN:: 9781501527241
ISBN:: 9781501510137
ISBN:: 9781501517037
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Nonfinite Inquiries

Buch 2023

Nonfinite Inquiries

Materials for a Comparative Study of Nonfinite Predicative Domains

Alain Rouveret

Band 138 in dieser Reihe

This study aims at developing a unified perspective on nonfiniteness, encompassing its morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects. It puts the emphasis on clause types distinct from standard infinitives (gerund clauses, Celtic verbo-nominal structures, Portuguese inflected infinitives, Latin dominant participle constructions) and takes advantage of the most recent developments in syntactic theory. The notions of defectiveness and completeness, the inheritance hypothesis, the labeling requirement, the syntactic definition of lexical categories, once combined together, appear to make accessible tighter and more elegant analyses than previous accounts.

　

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110769289
ISBN:: 9783110769289
ISBN:: 9783110769395
ISBN:: 9783110769159
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Malayalam Verbs

Buch 2019

Malayalam Verbs

Functional Structure and Morphosemantics

Amanda Swenson

Band 137 in dieser Reihe

This book, using Malayalam as a case study, provides an in-depth exploration of how inflectional suffixes should be separated from the verb and the implications this has for the syntax and semantics. Past work has proposed that Malayalam lacks a Tense Phrase and tense morphology, i.e. is ‘tenseless’. However, this book shows that Malayalam behaves differently from other tenseless languages and that it does have tense morphology. It also provides evidence that there is a Tense Phrase in the syntax. In addition, it examines what have been called the two 'imperfectives' and argues that one is a type of progressive, while the other is a pluractional marker and shows that Malayalam lacks perfect morphology and a Perfect Phrase in, minimally, Universal perfects. With respect to finiteness, among other things, it argues that Conjunctive Participles are best analyzed as a type of absolutive adjunct and that -athu ‘gerunds’ involve nominalization above the Tense Phrase-level. This book will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in cross-linguistic variation in Tense-Aspect-Modality and/or the morphosyntax or morphosemantics of Dravidian languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501510144
ISBN:: 9781501510144
ISBN:: 9781501516917
ISBN:: 9781501510120
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Architecture of Topic

Buch 2019

Architecture of Topic

Valéria Molnár, Verner Egerland, Susanne Winkler

Band 136 in dieser Reihe

This volume contains innovative papers that target the linguistic status of topic at the interface between grammar and discourse. The purpose of the volume is to discuss the universal properties of topics and, at the same time, to document the range of discourse-semantic and grammatical variation within this phenomenon in European languages.

The volume is structured accordingly: (i) theoretical foundations of topicality in grammar and discourse; (ii) discourse-semantic correlates of topicality; (iii) variation in the grammatical (external and internal) encoding of topicality; (iv) topics from the diachronic perspective. The articles take different perspectives, including contrastive studies of modern languages, studies on diachronic development, and typological generalizations. They also take into consideration various types of empirical data – introspective data, semi-spontaneously produced data, experimental data and language corpora.

The articles in this volume show that the concept of topic is necessary for the description and explanation of a number of discourse-semantic phenomena. They present a state of the art account of the architecture of topic while making recent research on the phenomenon accessible to a wider readership.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504488
ISBN:: 9781501504488
ISBN:: 9781501524967
ISBN:: 9781501504389
ISBN:: 9781501512612
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: From Sounds to Structures

Buch 2018

From Sounds to Structures

Beyond the Veil of Maya

Roberto Petrosino, Pietro Cerrone, Harry van der Hulst

Band 135 in dieser Reihe

The term ‘Maya’, in Indian traditions, refers to our sensory perception of the world and, as such, to a superficial reality (or ‘un–reality’) that we must look beyond to find the inner reality of things. Applied to the study of language, we perceive sounds, a superficial reality, and then we seek structures, the underlying reality in what we call phonology, morphology, and syntax. This volume starts with an introduction by the editors, which shows how the various papers contained in the volume reflect the spectrum of research interests of Andrea Calabrese, as well as his influence on the work of colleagues and his students. Contributors, united in their search for the abstract structures that underlie the appearances of languages include linguists such as Adriana Belletti, Paola Benincà, Jonathan Bobaljik, Gugliemo Cinque, David Embick, Mirko Grimaldi, Harry van der Hulst, Michael Kenstowicz, Maria Rita Manzini, Andrew Nevins, Elizabeth Pyatt, Luigi Rizzi, Leonardo Savoia, Laura Vanelli, Bert Vaux, Susi Wurmbrand, as well as a few junior researchers including Mariachiara Berizzi, Giuliano Bocci, Stefano Canalis, Silvio Cruschina, Irina Monich, Beata Moskal, Diego Pescarini, Joseph Perry, Roberto Petrosino, and Kobey Schwayder.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501506734
ISBN:: 9781501506734
ISBN:: 9781501521317
ISBN:: 9781501515347
ISBN:: 9781501506635
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Aspect and Valency in Nominals

Buch 2017

Aspect and Valency in Nominals

Maria Bloch-Trojnar, Anna Malicka-Kleparska

Band 134 in dieser Reihe

This book contributes to the recent theoretical developments in the area of mutual interactions of valency and aspect, as expressed in different types of verb-related nominal structures (nominalizations and synthetic compounds). A wide range of data from Slavic, Hellenic, Germanic, Romance and Semitic languages provides an empirical testing ground for competing theoretical explanations couched in the lexicalist and construction-based frameworks.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505430
ISBN:: 9781501505430
ISBN:: 9781501514586
ISBN:: 9781501505416
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Morphosyntax of Albanian and Aromanian Varieties

Buch 2018

The Morphosyntax of Albanian and Aromanian Varieties

Case, Agreement, Complementation

M. Rita Manzini, Leonardo Savoia

Band 133 in dieser Reihe

This book deals with Albanian, including the dialects spoken in Southern Italy, and with the Aromanian spoken in Southern Albania. These languages are set in the context of current generative research on syntax, morphology, language variation and contact – yielding insights into key morphosyntactic notions of case, agreement, complementation, and into phenomena such as Differential Object Marking, the Person Case Constraint, linkers and control.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505140
ISBN:: 9781501505140
ISBN:: 9781501514326
ISBN:: 9781501505065
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation

Buch 2020

Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation

Ludovico Franco, Paolo Lorusso

Band 132 in dieser Reihe

In this volume scholars honor M. Rita Manzini for her contributions to the field of Generative Morphosyntax. The essays in this book celebrate her career by continuing to explore inter-area research in linguistics and by pursuing a broad comparative approach, investigating and comparing different languages and dialects.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505201
ISBN:: 9781501505201
ISBN:: 9781501526701
ISBN:: 9781501505102
ISBN:: 9781501514340
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Grammar of Emphasis

Buch 2017

The Grammar of Emphasis

From Information Structure to the Expressive Dimension

Andreas Trotzke

Band 131 in dieser Reihe

This book reconsiders the linguistic notion of emphasis. For many, the concept of emphasis is confined to information structure. However, our understanding of the grammatical reflexes of emphasis is only partial as long as the expressive side of utterances is not taken into account. The book explores similarities, differences, and interactions between information structure and the expressive dimension of language in the domain of natural language grammar.

Specifically, this monograph demonstrates that specific word order options, sometimes in combination with discourse particles, yield meaning effects that are typical for the expressive side of utterances and endow them with an exclamative flavor. Approaching this issue from a syntactic point of view, the book shows that there are syntactic categories (e.g., a certain class of particle verbs) and word orders (e.g., certain fronting patterns involving discourse particles) that directly connect to expressive meaning components. The work presented in this monograph combines theoretical analysis with experimental evidence from both perception and production studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505881
ISBN:: 9781501505881
ISBN:: 9781501515033
ISBN:: 9781501505867
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2018

Freezing

Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Domains

Jutta Hartmann, Marion Jäger, Andreas Kehl, Andreas Konietzko, Susanne Winkler

Band 130 in dieser Reihe

Displacement is a fundamental property of human language, and the restrictions on displacement have been a central concern in generative grammar ever since Ross' (1967) ground-breaking observations of island constraints. While island phenomena have been investigated in detail from various perspectives, a different domain, the domain of Freezing, originally defined in terms of non-base structures, has received far less attention. This volume brings together papers that address the questions of: What are the different concepts of Freezing? Which empirical domains can they explain? Is Freezing a core-syntactic restriction or does information structure, or processing play a role? The collection of papers provides insights into the empirical basis of the Freezing Principle in relation to other restrictions on extraction in order to contribute to a broader understanding of the nature of restrictions on displacement in language. The overall goal of the volume is a reconsideration of Freezing and other (sub-)extraction phenomena, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective, by bringing together contributions from experts in the field to discuss and broaden our knowledge of the empirical range of Freezing phenomena as well as their explanation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504266
ISBN:: 9781501504266
ISBN:: 9781501512148
ISBN:: 9781501504198
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Syntactic Structures after 60 Years

Buch 2018

Syntactic Structures after 60 Years

The Impact of the Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics

Norbert Hornstein, Howard Lasnik, Pritty Patel-Grosz, Charles Yang

Band 129 in dieser Reihe

This volume explores the continuing relevance of Syntactic Structures to contemporary research in generative syntax. The contributions examine the ideas that changed the way that syntax is studied and that still have a lasting effect on contemporary work in generative syntax. Topics include formal foundations, the syntax-semantics interface, the autonomy of syntax, methods of data analysis, and detailed discussions of the role of transformations. New commentary from Noam Chomsky is included.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501506925
ISBN:: 9781501506925
ISBN:: 9781501514654
ISBN:: 9781501506864
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Wichtige Linguisten
Fachgebiet:: Chomsky
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Labels and Roots

Buch 2017

Labels and Roots

Leah Bauke, Andreas Blümel

Band 128 in dieser Reihe

This volume provides in-depth exploration of the issues of labeling and roots, with a balance of empirical and conceptual/theoretical analyses. The papers explore key questions that must ultimately be addressed in the development of generative theories: how do theories of labels and roots relate to syntax-internal computation, to semantics, to morphology, and to phonology?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502118
ISBN:: 9781501502118
ISBN:: 9781501510588
ISBN:: 9781501502132
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Elements of Comparative Syntax

Buch 2017

Elements of Comparative Syntax

Theory and Description

Enoch Aboh, Eric Haeberli, Genoveva Puskás, Manuela Schönenberger

Band 127 in dieser Reihe

This volume brings together a selection of articles illustrating the multifaceted nature of current research in generative syntax. The authors, including some of the leading figures in the field, present analyses of typologically diverse languages, with some studies drawing on dialectal, acquisitional and diachronic evidence. Set against this rich empirical background, the contributions address an equally wide range of theoretical issues.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504037
ISBN:: 9781501504037
ISBN:: 9781501518935
ISBN:: 9781501503979
ISBN:: 9781501511943
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Syllable and Stress

Buch 2016

The Syllable and Stress

Studies in Honor of James W. Harris

Rafael A. Núñez-Cedeño

Band 126 in dieser Reihe

In this volume, notable scholars honor James W. Harris for his contributions to Romance phonology. Inscribed within generative grammar, the studies seek to explain various phonological processes, structured around glides, aspects of onsets/codas as well as stress and weight. This book will be a useful reference tool for specialists in theoretical phonology, language acquisition, language in contact, bilingualism, and Spanish dialectology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614515975
ISBN:: 9781614515975
ISBN:: 9781614517368
ISBN:: 9781501500497
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Impact of Pronominal Form on Interpretation

Buch 2016

The Impact of Pronominal Form on Interpretation

Patrick Georg Grosz, Pritty Patel-Grosz

Band 125 in dieser Reihe

The interplay between the interpretation of pronouns (e.g. bound/referential) and their form (e.g. null/overt) is still ill-understood. This volume has a cross-linguistic orientation with in-depth investigations of more than 10 different languages. It unites researchers from the linguistic subfields of syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics, thus furthering dialogue with the goal of shedding new light on the form/interpretation connection.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614517016
ISBN:: 9781614517016
ISBN:: 9781614517801
ISBN:: 9781501500770
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Representing Structure in Phonology and Syntax

Buch 2015

Representing Structure in Phonology and Syntax

Marc van Oostendorp, Henk van Riemsdijk

Band 124 in dieser Reihe

Formal grammars by definition need two parts: a theory of computation (or derivation), and a theory of representation. While recent attention in mainstream syntactic and phonological theory has been devoted to the former, the papers in this volume aim to show that the importance of representational details is not diminished by the insights of such theories.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502224
ISBN:: 9781501510663
ISBN:: 9781501502224
ISBN:: 9781501502255
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Remnant Movement

Buch 2015

Remnant Movement

Günther Grewendorf

Band 123 in dieser Reihe

This book addresses two crucial problems associated with the phenomenon of Remnant Movement: First, what evidence can be brought to bear in favor of, or opposing, Remnant Movement analyses of linguistic phenomena? Secondly, what does the presence or absence of Remnant Movement in the syntax tell us about constraints imposed by Universal Grammar on syntactic operations?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614516330
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-746-7
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-633-0
ISBN:: 9781501500503
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: How Categorical are Categories?

Buch 2015

How Categorical are Categories?

New Approaches to the Old Questions of Noun, Verb, and Adjective

Joanna Blaszczak, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Krzysztof Migdalski

Band 122 in dieser Reihe

This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditional views from the modern theoretical and experimental perspective. Its focus is on the noun-verb, noun-adjective distinctions and categories occupying the "grey zone" between standard categories (e.g., nominalizations). This book will be of interest for researchers and students of linguistics and cognitive sciences.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514510
ISBN:: 9781614516187
ISBN:: 9781614514510
ISBN:: 9781501500909
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Parenthesis and Ellipsis

Buch 2015

Parenthesis and Ellipsis

Cross-Linguistic and Theoretical Perspectives

Marlies Kluck, Dennis Ott, Mark de Vries

Band 121 in dieser Reihe

This volume presents a cross-section of research addressing the interaction of two prominent areas in linguistic theory: parenthesis and ellipsis. The contributions address various theoretical questions raised by 'incomplete' parenthetical constituents, covering a diverse empirical domain and various subfields of linguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514831
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-674-3
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-483-1
ISBN:: 9781501500466
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A Movement Theory of Anaphora

Buch 2014

A Movement Theory of Anaphora

Jun Abe

Band 120 in dieser Reihe

Under the tenet shared by Hornstein and Kayne that rules of construal need to be recaptured by the operation Move, this book aims to construct a movement theory of anaphora according to which anaphoric relations are established through movement of pro. This theory has significant theoretical implications for reconstruction effects and pro-drop phenomena. It has brought binding theory into the realm of the Minimalist Program.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614516996
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-779-5
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-699-6
ISBN:: 9781501500244
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Identity Relations in Grammar

Buch 2014

Identity Relations in Grammar

Kuniya Nasukawa, Henk van Riemsdijk

Band 119 in dieser Reihe

Few concepts are as ubiquitous in the physical world of humans as that of identity. Laws of nature crucially involve relations of identity and non-identity, the act of identifying is central to most cognitive processes, and the structure of human language is determined in many different ways by considerations of identity and its opposite. The purpose of this book is to bring together research from a broad scale of domains of grammar that have a bearing on the role that identity plays in the structure of grammatical representations and principles.

Beyond a great many analytical puzzles, the creation and avoidance of identity in grammar raise a lot of fundamental and hard questions. These include:

Why is identity sometimes tolerated or even necessary, while in other contexts it must be avoided?
What are the properties of complex elements that contribute to configurations of identity (XX)?
What structural notions of closeness or distance determine whether an offending XX-relation exists or, inversely, whether two more or less distant elements satisfy some requirement of identity?
Is it possible to generalize over the specific principles that govern (non-)identity in the various components of grammar, or are such comparisons merely metaphorical?
Indeed, can we define the notion of identity in a formal way that will allow us to decide which of the manifold phenomena that we can think of are genuine instances of some identity (avoidance) effect?
If identity avoidance is a manifestation in grammar of some much more encompassing principle, some law of nature, then how is it possible that what does and what does not count as identical in the grammars of different languages seems to be subject to considerable variation?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614518112
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-818-1
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-811-2
ISBN:: 9781614518983
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Between Phonology and Phonetics

Buch 2014

Between Phonology and Phonetics

Eugeniusz Cyran

Band 118 in dieser Reihe

For decades, the voicing system of Polish has been at the center of a heated theoretical debate concerning laryngeal phonology as it features a number of phenomena that constitute the core of this debate, such as Final Obstruent Devoicing, Regressive Voice Assimilation, and Progressive Voice Assimilation. As research into laryngeal phonology progresses on various fronts, it becomes more obvious that a large portion of the phenomena in question have phonetic or implementational conditioning, thus limiting the role of phonology even further. The model presented here is one in which phonology, phonetic interpretation, and phonetics find their respective homes. Paradoxically, by separating these three levels of description, we wish to integrate the disparate threads of modern research of sound patterns into one sound system.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614515135
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-714-6
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-513-5
ISBN:: 9781614518563
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Slavische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonetik
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Reconstruction and Resumption in Indirect A‘-Dependencies

Buch 2017

Reconstruction and Resumption in Indirect A‘-Dependencies

On the Syntax of Prolepsis and Relativization in (Swiss) German and Beyond

Martin Salzmann

Band 117 in dieser Reihe

This monograph investigates A’-dependencies in Standard German, Alemannic and Dutch where the dislocated constituent is indirectly, i.e. not transformationally, related to the position where it is interpreted.

The study focuses on relative clauses and shows that an important part of the relativization system in these languages, long relativization, involves a hitherto ignored construction termed resumptive prolepsis. This construction is characterized by base-generation of the operator in the matrix middle-field and a resumptive pronoun in the position of the variable. It is shown that it involves short A’-movement in the matrix clause, empty operator movement in the complement clause and an ellipsis operation that links the two operators. While the link is directly visible in German and Dutch, Swiss German provides a more abstract version of resumptive prolepsis.

Through a detailed examination of reconstruction effects and the properties of resumption in these constructions, the book provides new evidence for the role of ellipsis in A’-movement and for a base-generation analysis of resumption. More generally, it makes an important contribution to the modeling of long-distance dependencies and the study of A'-syntax.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512202
ISBN:: 9781614512202
ISBN:: 9781614512912
ISBN:: 9781501500824
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Dialektologie
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Nominal Structure in Slavic and Beyond

Buch 2014

The Nominal Structure in Slavic and Beyond

Lilia Schürcks, Anastasia Giannakidou, Urtzi Etxeberria

Band 116 in dieser Reihe

The contributions in this volume shed new light on the discussion of whether the DP hypothesis applies universally or not. The issue is prominent not only for Slavic languages. Drawing on evidence from many other languages, Greek, East Asian, and Basque among them, the book has important implications for answering fundamental questions about the nature of definiteness and quantification.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512790
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-388-9
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-279-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Slavische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Challenges to Linearization

Buch 2013

Challenges to Linearization

Theresa Biberauer, Ian Roberts

Band 114 in dieser Reihe

The ten contributions in this volume focus on a range of linearization challenges, all of which aim to shed new light on the central, still largely mysterious question of how the abundant evidence that linguistic structures are hierarchically organised can plausibly be reconciled with the fact that actually realised linguistic strings are typically sequentially ordered. Some of the contributions present particularly challenging data, those on the mixed spoken and signed output of bimodal Italian children, Quechua nominal morphology, Kannada reduplication and Taqbaylit of Chemini “floating prepositions” all being cases in point. Others have a typological focus, highlighting and attempting to explain striking patterns like the Final-over-Final Constraint or considering the predictions of particular theoretical approacesh (the movement theory of Control, multidominance, Distributed Morphology) in relation to structures that we do and don’t expect to be “possible linguistic structures”. Broader architectural questions also receive attention from various perspectives.

This volume will be of interest to advanced students and researchers with interests in the externalisation of ling

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512431
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-310-0
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-243-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Syntax of Topic, Focus, and Contrast

Buch 2013

The Syntax of Topic, Focus, and Contrast

An Interface-based Approach

Ad Neeleman, Reiko Vermeulen

Band 113 in dieser Reihe

This book addresses how core notions of information structure (topic, focus and contrast) are expressed in syntax. The authors propose that the syntactic effects of information structure come about as a result of mapping rules that are flexible enough to allow topics and foci to be expressed in a variety of positions, but strict enough to capture certain cross-linguistic generalisations about their distribution. In particular, the papers argue that only contrastive topics and contrastive foci undergo movement and that this is because such movement has the function of marking the scope of contrast. Several predications are derived from this proposal: such as that a focus cannot move across a topic – whether the latter is in situ or not. Syntactic and semantic evidence in support of this proposal is presented from a wide range of languages (including Dutch, English, Japanese, Korean and Russian) and theoretical consequences explored. The first chapter not only outlines its theoretical aims, but also provides an introduction to information structure. As a consequence, the book is accessible to advanced students as well as professional linguists.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511458
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-156-4
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-145-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Pragmatik
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Discourse and Grammar

Buch 2013

Discourse and Grammar

From Sentence Types to Lexical Categories

Günther Grewendorf, Thomas Ede Zimmermann

Band 112 in dieser Reihe

Bringing together papers from various subfields of theoretical linguistics, this volume gives a representative glimpse of current research on form and function in grammar. Its overarching topic is as old as it is hot: the relation between the major clause types as determined in syntax, and their canonical or idiosyncratic roles in discourse as characterized in pragmatic terms. Though none of the papers addresses this topic in its full breadth, they can all be seen to make their specific contributions to it, scrutinizing the pertinent aspects of the grammatical interfaces and elaborating detailed case studies.

The first part of this collection comprises three papers (by Asher, Portner, and van Rooy & Franke) devoted to the semantics/pragmatics interface. The second part, with contributions by Rizzi, Saito, and Belletti, deals with the question of how the constitution of sentence types can be related to properties of functional categories in the clausal periphery.The last four papers (Bošković, van Riemsdijk, Bauke & Roeper, Williams) concern the interaction of lexical elements and clausal functional categories, revealing unexpected parallels between clause structure and the internal structure, particularly in lexical categories.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511601
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-215-8
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-160-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory

Buch 2012

Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory

Studies in Meaning and Structure

Britta Stolterfoht, Sam Featherston

Band 111 in dieser Reihe

The mental representation of language cannot be directly observed but must be inferred and modelled from its effects at second hand. Linguists have traditionally responded to this in two ways, either going for a fairly data-light approach and valuing theoretical creativity, or pursuing just those goals for which data is available and trusting to data-driven descriptive work.

More recently, advances in technology and experimental techniques have made data gathering easier and more accessible, so that a theoretically informed but empirically based approach is rapidly growing in popularity. This synthesis permits linguists to combine the intellectual hypothesis generation of the theoreticians with the ability to deliver hard answers of the empiricist.

This volume is a collection of papers in this direction, using mostly experiment methods to yield insights into syntactic and semantic structures, language processing, and acquisition. Papers report corpus data, neurological investigations, child language studies, and fieldwork from minority languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614510888
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-089-5
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-088-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Neurolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Strengthening the PRO Hypothesis

Buch 2014

Strengthening the PRO Hypothesis

Lisa A. Reed

Band 110 in dieser Reihe

The syntax of Control structures remains a topic of heated debate: Standard generative treatments continue to analyze them in terms of PRO, a hypothesis challenged in alternative syntactic frameworks, semantic circles, and even within the generative tradition itself. This book:

(a) examines empirical paradigms currently assumed to favor a PRO approach over competing theories, demonstrating that alternative approaches offer equally plausible treatments of these facts;

(b) develops five novel arguments amenable to analysis only within a PRO approach;

(c) puts forth a radically revised PRO approach to Control according to which PRO continues to be analyzed as a non-expletive nominal, but one lacking phi- and Case features in the computational component. Contra standard theory, PRO is argued to never undergo movement to a position even as high as the first NegP that dominates its initial merge position. Furthermore, Control complements are shown to take the form of such diverse categories as CP, IP, vP and VP; and

(d) considers how a syntactically phi-featureless noun comes to be understood to bear phi-features, as well as how tense limits PRO’s distribution in a here-to-fore unnoticed fashion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614510413
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-042-0
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-041-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2012

Phases

Developing the Framework

Ángel J. Gallego, Noam Chomsky

Band 109 in dieser Reihe

This volume explores and develops the framework of phases (so-called Phase Theory), first introduced in Chomsky (2000). The antecedents of such framework go back to the well-known notion of “cycle”, which concerns broader notions, such as compositionality, locality, and economy conditions. Within generative grammar, this idea of the cycle took a concrete form in the fifties, with Chomsky, Halle, and Lukoff’s (1955) pioneering work on stress, later on extended in Chomsky & Halle (1968), Halle & Vergnaud (1987), and further applied to morpho-phonology (Mascaró 1976 and Kiparski 1982), semantics (Jackendoff 1969), and syntax (Chomsky 1965, 1973). In recent years, several attempts have tried to refine and reformulate the cycle (Freidin 1999, Lasnik 2006, Uriagereka 2011). Such was the goal behind explorations on bounding nodes (Chomsky 1973) and barriers (Chomsky 1986), for which there is substantial empirical evidence showing how computation proceeds in a step-by-step fashion. Much work within minimalism has been devoted to investigate the nature of phases and their relevance for other areas of linguistic inquiry. Although it has been argued that phases have natural correlates at the interfaces, it is still unclear what the defining properties of these domains are, whether they can help us understand language acquisition, language variation, or language evolution. This book aims at addressing these questions, sharpening our understanding about phases and the nature of the Faculty of Language.

Ángel J. Gallego (ed.), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

1. Cedric Boeckx, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats / Universitat de Barcelona
2. Zeljko Bošković, University of Connecticut
3. Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4. Samuel D. Epstein, University of Michigan
5. Wolfram Hinzen, Durham University
6. Hisatsugu Kitahara, Keio University
7. Julie Anne Legate, University of Pennsylvania
8. Hiroki Narita, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study
9. Miki Obata, Mie University
10. Marc D. Richards, University of Frankfurt
11. Ian G. Roberts, University of Cambridge
12. Bridget Samuels, University of Southern California
13. Yosuke Sato, National University of Singapore
14. T. Daniel Seely, Eastern Michigan University
15. Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110264104
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026409-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026410-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Pronouns and Clitics in Early Language

Buch 2012

Pronouns and Clitics in Early Language

Pilar Larranaga, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes

Band 108 in dieser Reihe

Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make them different from personal pronouns. This book focuses on the acquisition of personal and demonstrative pronouns as well as clitics with respect to determinative phrases in a variety of languages of the Romance family and several indigenous languages, such as Quechua. A particularly original aspect of the present volume is that it not only addresses syntactic issues, but also semantic and pragmatic questions that have been widely neglected in the literature. It also reports on acquisition data of languages, such as Quechua, which have not attracted the attention of researchers until very recently.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110238815
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023880-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023881-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Tones and Features

Buch 2011

Tones and Features

Phonetic and Phonological Perspectives

John A. Goldsmith, Elizabeth Hume, Leo Wetzels

Band 107 in dieser Reihe

This volume includes papers by leading figures in phonetics and phonology on two topics central to phonological theory: tones and phonological features. Papers address a wide range of topics bearing on tones and features including their formal representation and phonetic foundation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246223
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024621-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024622-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Null Pronouns

Buch 2011

Null Pronouns

Melani Wratil, Peter Gallmann

Band 106 in dieser Reihe

Most natural languages display an inventory of pronominal elements that obligatorily or optionally remain phonologically null in a few, in many or even in all syntactic surroundings. The authors of the papers compiled in this book analyse such null pronouns in a synchronic and diachronic way and recover the specific morphological and syntactic prerequisites for their origin and insertion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110238716
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023870-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023871-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Complexity Scales and Licensing in Phonology

Buch 2010

Complexity Scales and Licensing in Phonology

Eugeniusz Cyran

Band 105 in dieser Reihe

The aim of this book is to demonstrate that, in a representation-based model, the phonological organization of speech sounds within a word is reducible to the licensing properties of nuclei with respect to structurally defined complexities which pose varying demands on the licenser. It is assumed that the primitive licensing relation is that between a nucleus and its onset (O N). There are two main types of complexities concerning the onset position. Substantive complexity is an important aspect of phonological organisation at the melodic level, while the syllabic configurations in which the onset may be found are referred to under the heading of formal complexity.
At the melodic level, complexity is defined in terms of the number of privative primes called elements. The asymmetries in the subsegmental representations of consonants and vowels are shown to play a pivotal role in understanding a number of phenomena, such as typological patterns, markedness effects, phonological processes, segmental inventories, and, what is most important, the model allows us to see a direct connection between phonological representations and processes. For example, the deletion of [g] in Welsh initial mutations is strictly related to the fact that the prime which crucially defines this object also happens to be the target of Soft Mutation.
The complexity at the syllabic level is defined in terms of formal onset configurations called governing relations, of which some are easier to license than others. The formal complexity scale is not rerankable, and corresponds directly to the markedness of syllabic types. Since each formal configuration requires licensing from the following nucleus, syllable typology can be directly derived from the licensing strength of nuclei. The interaction between the higher prosodic organisation, for example, the level of the foot, and the syllabic level is also easily expressible in this model because higher prosody is built on nuclei. Therefore, prosody may tamper with the status of nuclei as licensers by deeming some of them as prosodically weaker than others, thus producing a non-rerankable scale of nuclear licensers (a " P). The inclusion of the empty nucleus as a possible licenser allows us to unify the scale of relatively marked contexts in segmental phenomena, and also to account for such problems as extrasyllabicity, complex clusters, super heavy rhymes, and other exceptional strings. The role of nuclei as licensers in unifying various levels of phonological representation from melody to word structure is unquestionable. There are other areas of phonological theory which can be expressed in this model. These include the role of nuclear strength scales in register switches, dialectal variation, historical development, language acquisition, and the interaction between phonology and morphology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110221503
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022149-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022150-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Recursion and Human Language

Buch 2010

Recursion and Human Language

Harry van der Hulst

Band 104 in dieser Reihe

The present volume is an edited collection of original contributions which all deal with the issue of recursion in human language(s). All contributions originate as papers that were presented at a conference on the topic of recursion in human language organized by Dan Everett in March 22, 2007. For the purpose of this collection all articles underwent a double-blind peer-review process. The present chapters were written in the course of 2008.

Although the ‘recursive’ nature of linguistic expressions, i.e. the apparent possibility of producing an infinite number of expressions with finite means, has been noted for a long time, no general agreement seems to exist concerning the empirical status as well as mathematical formalization of this ‘characteristic’ of human languages or of the grammars that lie behind these utterances that make up these languages.

Renewed interest in this subject was sparked by recent claims that ‘recursion’ is perhaps the sole uniquely human and as such universal trait of human language (cf. Chomsky, Hauser and Fitch 2000). In this volume, the issue of recursion is tackled from a variety of angles. Some articles cover formal issues regarding the proper characterization or definition of recursion, while others focus on empirical issues by examining the kinds of structure in languages that suggest recursive mechanism in the grammar. Most articles discuss syntactic phenomena, but several involve morphology, the lexicon and phonology. In addition, we find discussions that involve evolutionary notions and language disorders, and the broader cognitive context of recursion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219258
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021924-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021925-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Strength Relations in Phonology

Buch 2009

Strength Relations in Phonology

Kuniya Nasukawa, Phillip Backley

Band 103 in dieser Reihe

This collection of papers focuses on the general theme of phonological strength, bringing together current work being undertaken in a variety of leading theoretical frameworks. Its aim is to show how referring directly to strength relations can facilitate explanation in different parts of the phonological grammar.

The papers introduce illuminating data from a wide range of languages including English, Dutch, German, Greek, Japanese, Bambara, Yuhup, Nivkh, Sesotho and other Bantu systems, demonstrating how strength differences are central to the analysis of phonological patterning not only in well-documented cases of segmental asymmetry but also in other areas of description including language acquisition, pitch accent patterns and tonal phenomena. All of the contributors agree on the need for a phonological (as opposed to a phonetic) approach to the question of strength differences, and show how a strength-based analysis may proceed in various theoretical models including Dependency Phonology, Government Phonology, Strict CV Phonology and Optimality Theory.

Many of the papers develop a structural account of their data, in which strength relations are understood to reflect asymmetric licensing relations holding between units in representations. The volume provides a snapshot of current thinking on the question of strength in phonology. The range of language data and theoretical contexts it explores give a clear indication that phonological strength acts as a common thread to unite a range of apparently unrelated patterns and processes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110218596
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021858-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021859-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Volume 2 Product

Buch 2009

Volume 2 Product

Susanne Winkler, Sam Featherston

Teil des mehrbändigen Werks The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics

Band 102 in dieser Reihe

The second volume of the two-volume set The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics focuses on the linguistic outcomes of empirical linguistics. The contributions present some of the insights that linguists can gain by applying the new methods: progress within language study is accelerated by the new evidence since language systems are more precisely captured. Readers will enjoy the fresh perspective on linguistic questions made possible by the evidence-based approach.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216158
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021347-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021615-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Volume 1 Process

Buch 2009

Volume 1 Process

Sam Featherston, Susanne Winkler

Teil des mehrbändigen Werks The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics

Band 101 in dieser Reihe

The contributions to The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 1: Process reveal why the data-driven approach makes for a research environment which is fast-moving and democratic: technological change has made the sources of linguistic data readily accessible. These contributions show the methods both professional and student linguists are using to gather more evidence more easily than before.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216141
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021338-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021614-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Alternatives to Cartography

Buch 2009

Alternatives to Cartography

Jeroen van Craenenbroeck

Band 100 in dieser Reihe

In the 1980s generative grammar recognized that functional material is able to project syntactic structure in conformity with the X-bar-format. This insight soon led to a considerable increase in the inventory of functional projections. The basic idea behind this line of theorizing, which goes by the name of cartography, is that sentence structure can be represented as a template of linearly ordered positions, each with their own syntactic and semantic import.

In recent years, however, a number of problems have been raised for this approach. For example, certain combinations of syntactic elements cannot be linearly ordered. In light of such problems a number of alternative accounts have been explored. Some of them propose a new (often interface-related) trigger for movement, while others seek alternative means of accounting for various word order patterns.

These alternatives to cartography do not form a homogeneous group, nor has there thus far been a forum where these ideas could be compared and confronted with one another. This volume fills that gap. It offers a varied and in-depth view on the position taken by a substantial number of researchers in the field today on what is presumably one of the most hotly debated and controversial issues in present-day generative grammar.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217124
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020603-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021712-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Lenition and Fortition

Buch 2008

Lenition and Fortition

Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho, Tobias Scheer, Philippe Ségéral

Band 99 in dieser Reihe

There are books on tone, coronals, the internal structure of segments, vowel harmony, and a couple of other topics in phonology. This book aims to fill the gap for Lenition and Fortition, which is one of the first phenomena that was addressed by phonologists in the 19th century, and ever since contributed to phonological thinking. It is certainly one of the core phenomena that is found in the phonology of natural language: together with assimilations, the other important family of phenomena, Lenition and Fortition constitute the heart of what phonology can do to sound.
The book aims to provide an overall treatment of the question in its many aspects: historical, typological, synchronic, diachronic, empirical and theoretical. Various current approaches to phonology are represented.
The book is structured into three parts: 1) properties and behaviour of Lenition/Fortition, 2) lenition patterns in particular languages and language families, 3) how Lenition/Fortition work.
Part 1 describes the properties of lenition and fortition: what counts as such? What kind of behaviour is observed? Which factors bear on it (positional, stress-related)? Which role has it played in phonology since (and even before) the 19th century? The everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-lenition-and-fortition philosophy that guides the conception of the book supposes a descriptive, generalisation-oriented style of writing that relies on a kind of phonological lingua franca, rather than on theory-laden vocabulary. Also, no prior knowledge other than about general phonological categories should be required when reading through Part 1. The goal is to provide a broad picture of what lenition is, how it behaves, which factors it is conditioned by and what generalisations it obeys. This record may then be used as a yardstick for competing theories.
Part 2 presents a number of case studies that show how Lenition/Fortition behave in a number of languages that include systems which are notoriously emblematic for Lenition/Fortition: Celtic, Western Romance, Germanic and Finnish.
Finally, Part 3 is concerned with the analysis of the patterns that have been described in Parts 1 and 2. Given their analytic orientation, Part 3 chapters are theory-specific. They look at the same empirical record, or at a subset thereof, and try to explain what they see. Even though Part 3 chapters are couched in a specific theoretical environment that most of the time supposes prior conceptual knowledge, authors have been asked to assure theoretical interoperability as much as they could.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211443
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020608-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021144-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: On Pied-Piping

Buch 2008

On Pied-Piping

Wh-Movement and Beyond

Fabian Heck

Band 98 in dieser Reihe

Pied-piping, the phenomenon that wh-movement may target categories not marked with the feature [wh], has generally been considered idiosyncratic and pathological. On Pied-Piping argues that this assessment is not correct. The book presents a compilation of crosslinguistic generalizations on pied-piping and a theory that derives them. Pied-piping is incorporated into a derivational theory of successive cyclic wh-movement that includes input-output optimization, the operation Agree, and phase theory. The resulting theory is a step towards closing a long-standing gap in syntactic theorizing.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211467
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020605-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021146-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Derivations and Evaluations

Buch 2008

Derivations and Evaluations

Object Shift in the Germanic Languages

Hans Broekhuis

Band 97 in dieser Reihe

This study shows that Scandinavian object shift and so-called A-scrambling in the continental Germanic languages are the same, and aims at providing an account of the variation that we find with respect to this phenomenon by combining certain aspects of the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory. More specifically, it is claimed that representations created by a simplified version of the computational system of human language CHL are evaluated in an optimality theoretic fashion by taking recourse to a very small set of output constraints.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207200
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019864-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020720-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2007

Roots

Linguistics in Search of its Evidential Base

Sam Featherston, Wolfgang Sternefeld

Band 96 in dieser Reihe

The renewed focus on the evidential base of linguistics in general, but particularly on syntax, is in to a large degree dependent on technological developments: computers, electronic storage and transmission. These factors have enabled a revolution in the accessibility of digitally stored language, both in sampled and organized corpora and in its raw unsampled form on the internet. But this technology has also allowed a step-change in experimental methods readily available to linguists. The new arrival of such enormous quantities of data in greatly increased detail has made information accessible which could previously not even have been dreamed of. This volume is a selection of research reports from linguists who are making use of this new information and trying to integrate the new insights into their analyses and theoretical assumptions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198621
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019315-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019862-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Freedom of Analysis?

Buch 2007

Freedom of Analysis?

Sylvia Blaho, Patrik Bye, Martin Krämer

Band 95 in dieser Reihe

This volume draws together papers that argue for a renewed focus on the role of hard constraints on phonological representations as well as the processes that operate on them. These are issues that have been sidelined since the shift in emphasis in phonological research to functionally grounded output-oriented constraints. Taking Optimality Theory as their starting point, the articles attack the question to what degree the Generator function Gen should be given freedom of analysis on three fronts.

(1) What is the nature of the representations that Gen manipulates? Is a return to more articulated theories of segmental and prosodic representation desirable?

(2) What restrictions might there be on the operations that Gen carries out on representations? Should Gen be endowed with structure-changing potential, as assumed in work couched within Correspondence Theory, or is a return to the principle of Containment preferable? Should Gen be restricted in the number of edits it can carry out at any one time? Should Gen be restricted to generating phonetically interpretable candidates?

(3) What is the relationship between Gen and functionally arbitrary or opaque phonological patterns? Should Gen's freedom be restricted in order to account for language-specific phonology?

The solutions offered to these questions bear significantly on current issues that are of fundamental concern in linguistic theory, including representations, parallelism vs. serialism, and the division of labour between linguistic modules. The authors scrutinize these issues using data from a variety of unrelated languages, including Czech, English, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Lardil, Spanish, Turkish, and Yowlumne.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198591
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019359-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019859-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Acquisition of Finiteness

Buch 2008

The Acquisition of Finiteness

Elma Blom

Band 94 in dieser Reihe

The book provides a theoretical and empirical evaluation of a field that has been the focus of generative theories on language acquisition: the acquisition of finiteness and related properties such as root infinitives, verb movement and null subjects. It contains a critical empirical assessment of the various hypotheses, lists the implications for linguistic theory and provides alternative analyses. Issues covered are: (i) the semantics of children’s root infinitives (tense, modality and aspect), (ii) the relation between lexical, morphological and syntactic development in the domain of finiteness, (iii) the role of the input, and (iv) the interference of cognitive development. Typological focus is on Germanic languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211436
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019083-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021143-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Erstspracherwerb
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Discovering Syntax

Buch 2007

Discovering Syntax

Clause Structures of English, German and Romance

Joseph E. Emonds

Band 93 in dieser Reihe

The essays in this volume, dating from 1991 onwards, focus on highly characteristic constructions of English, Romance languages, and German.

Among clause-internal structures, the most puzzling are English double objects, particle constructions, and non-finite complementation (infinitives, participles and gerunds). Separate chapters in Part I offer relatively complete analyses of each. These analyses are integrated into the framework of Emonds (2000), wherein a simplified subcategorization theory fully expresses complement selection. Principal results of that framework constitute the initial essay of Part I. areas.

The self-contained essays can all be read separately. They are rich in empirical documentation, and yet in all of them, solutions are constructed around a coherent, relatively simple theoretical core.

In Romance languages, classic generative debates have singled out clitic and causative constructions as the most challenging. Separate essays in Part II lay out the often complex paradigms and propose detailed syntactic solutions, simple in their overall architecture yet rich in detailed predictions.

Concerning movements to clausal edges, especially controversial topics include passives, English parasitic gaps, and the nature of verb-second systems exemplified by German.. The essays in Part III each use rather surprising but still theoretically constrained structural accounts to solve thorny problems in all three.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207521
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018682-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020752-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Syntax of Tenselessness

Buch 2007

The Syntax of Tenselessness

Tense/Mood/Aspect-agreeing Infinitivals

Anna-Lena Wiklund

Band 92 in dieser Reihe

Tense/Mood/Aspect-agreeing Infinitivals is an in-depth investigation of the syntax of verb-verb agreement phenomena in Swedish, including pseudocoordinations of the form John started and wrote 'John started writing' and double participles of the form John had been-able written 'John had been able to write'. Providing evidence from facts concerning extraction, locality, selection, and interpretation, the book argues that the relevant construction types all involve surface variants of "infinitives in disguise"; infinitivals that agree with the matrix clause in tense/mood/aspect. Arguments are presented in favour of taking the dependencies underlying the agreement to be instances of Agree between functional heads of the same label, a configuration that yields restructuring/clause-union. The main theoretical contributions of the book are two:
(i) Agreement is proportional to functional structure:
The possibility of "copying" a particular morphosyntactic form is contingent on the presence of the corresponding functional projection in the agreeing XP.
(ii) Size constancy between restructuring/non-restructuring infinitivals:
The category selected by a verb may remain constant between restructuring and non-restructuring configurations.

It is suggested that an important aspect of restructuring may be alternation between unmarked (negatively specified) features and unvalued varieties of the same features, capturing properties such as "tenselessness", "finitelessness", etc. of restructuring infinitivals. The book is an important contribution to the syntax of infinitival clauses, the syntax of clause-union/restructuring, and more generally to the syntax of agreement phenomena in natural language. In addition, it provides a general reference source for anyone interested in the syntax of Swedish and other Scandinavian languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197839
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019043-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019783-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Phases of Interpretation

Buch 2006

Phases of Interpretation

Mara Frascarelli

Band 91 in dieser Reihe

This book investigates the concept of phase, aiming at a structural definition of the three domains that are assumed as the syntactic loci for interface interpretation, namely vP, CP and DP.

In particular, three basic issues are addressed, that represent major questions of syntactic research within the Minimalist Program in the last decade. A) How is the set of minimally necessary syntactic operations to be characterised (including questions about the exact nature of copy and merge, the status of remnant movement, the role of head movement in the grammar), B) How is the set of minimally necessary functional heads to be characterised that determine the built-up and the interpretation of syntactic objects and C) How do these syntactic operations and objects interact with principles and requirements that are thought to hold at the two interfaces.

The concept of phase has also implications for the research on the functional make-up of syntactic objects, implying that functional projections not only apply in a (universally given) hierarchy but split up in various phases pertaining to the head they are related to.

This volume provides major contributions to this ongoing discussion, investigating these issues in a variety of languages (Berber, Dutch, English, German, Modern Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian and West Flemish) and combining the analysis of empirical data with the theoretical insights of the last years.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197723
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018684-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019772-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Impersonal "si" constructions

Buch 2007

Impersonal "si" constructions

Agreement and Interpretation

Roberta D'Alessandro

Band 90 in dieser Reihe

This book is a research monograph on impersonal si constructions (ISC) in Italian within the Minimalist program framework. The book offers a new point of view on ISCs, providing a new set of crucial data that were previously unknown, and pointing out many characteristics of ISCs that were overlooked before. It results in the introduction of additional means of syntactic analysis at the edge between narrow syntax and pragmatics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207514
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018967-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020751-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Interfaces + Recursion = Language?

Buch 2007

Interfaces + Recursion = Language?

Chomsky's Minimalism and the View from Syntax-Semantics

Uli Sauerland, Hans-Martin Gärtner

Band 89 in dieser Reihe

Human language is a phenomenon of immense richness: It provides finely nuanced means of expression that underlie the formation of culture and society; it is subject to subtle, unexpected constraints like syntactic islands and cross-over phenomena; different mutually-unintelligeable individual languages are numerous; and the descriptions of individual languages occupy thousands of pages. Recent work in linguistics, however, has tried to argue that despite all appearances to the contrary, the human biological capacity for language may be reducible to a small inventory of core cognitive competencies. The most radical version of this view has emerged from the Minimalist Program: The claim that language consists of only the ability to generate recursive structures by a computational mechanism. On this view, all other properties of language must result from the interaction at the interfaces of that mechanism and other mental systems not exclusively devoted to language. Since language could then be described as the simplest recursive system satisfying the requirements of the interfaces, one can speak of the Minimalist Equation: Interfaces + Recursion = Language.

The question whether all the richness of language can be reduced to that minimalist equation has already inspired several fruitful lines of research that led to important new results. While a full assessment of the minimalist equation will require evidence from many different areas of inquiry, this volume focuses especially on the perspective of syntax and semantics. Within the minimalist architecture, this places our concern with the core computational mechanism and the (LF-)interface where recursive structures are fed to interpretation. Specific questions that the papers address are: What kind of recursive structures can the core generator form? How can we determine what the simplest recursive system is? How can properties of language that used to be ascribed to the recursive generator be reduced to interface properties? What effects do syntactic operations have on semantic interpretation? To what extent do models of semantic interpretation support the LF-interface conditions postulated by minimalist syntax?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207552
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018872-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020755-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Clause Structure and Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages

Buch 2006

Clause Structure and Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages

Hans-Martin Gärtner, Paul Law, Joachim Sabel

Band 87 in dieser Reihe

Clause Structure and Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages is a collection of papers devoted to the syntactic analysis of modification and extraction strategies in Austronesian languages such as Kavalan, Malagasy, Niuean, Seediq, and Tagalog. Written by some of the leading scholars in the field, it elucidates the categorial and phrase structural status as well as the scopal behavior of sentence-level adverbs, ordering constraints on adjectival modifiers, and the nature of unbounded dependencies in interaction with Philippine-type voice systems. Guglielmo Cinque's universal ordering hypothesis for adverbs and current work on remnant movement serve as theoretical points of reference.

More particularly the book contains an analysis of lower VP-adverbs in Kavalan as serial verbs (Chang), a defense of two types of adverbial heads in Seediq (Holmer), an account of possible DP-internal serializations in Niuean in terms of remnant movement (Kahnemuyipour Massam), a plea for relative, scope-based adverb ordering in Tagalog (Kaufman), a clefting approach to unbounded dependencies in Malagasy (Potsdam), a critical assessment of constraints on remnant movement as applied to adverb orderings in Malagasy (Thiersch), and an analysis of the Malagasy voice system on the basis of clitic left-dislocation (Travis). The editors' introduction undertakes a critical survey of the relevant empirical and theoretical background.

A substantial part of the empirical facts are presented here for the first time, and the book will inspire additional systematic investigation of the often neglected aspects of modificational strategies in Austronesian languages.

The book will be of value to linguists interested in contemporary syntactic analysis and to everyone seeking a deeper understanding of the formal properties of Austronesian.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110922974
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019005-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092297-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Organizing Grammar

Buch 2006

Organizing Grammar

Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk

Hans Broekhuis, Norbert Corver, Riny Huijbregts, Ursula Kleinhenz, Jan Koster

Band 86 in dieser Reihe

Henk van Riemsdijk has long been known as one of Europe’s most important linguists. His seminal ideas have been influential in developing generative grammar in Europe and beyond. As the initiator, co-founder, and chair of the GLOW society, he made the society the leading platform of European generative linguistics. He has also been editor of the series Studies in Generative Grammar since its foundation. As a teacher and supervisor, he has inspired generations of students. On the occasion of his relocation from the Netherlands to Italy, his friends, students and colleagues celebrate his work with this collection of essays on numerous topics of current theoretical interest.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892994
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018850-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089299-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Linguistic Evidence

Buch 2005

Linguistic Evidence

Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Perspectives

Stephan Kepser, Marga Reis

Band 85 in dieser Reihe

The renaissance of corpus linguistics and promising developments in experimental linguistic techniques in recent years have led to a remarkable revival of interest in issues of the empirical base of linguistic theory in general, and the status of different kinds of linguistic evidence in particular. Consensus is growing (a) that even so-called primary data (from introspection as well as authentic language production) are inherently complex performance data only indirectly reflecting the subject of linguistic theory, (b) that for an appropriate foundation of linguistic theories evidence from different sources such as introspective data, corpus data, data from (psycho-)linguistic experiments, historical and diachronic data, typological data, neurolinguistic data and language learning data are not only welcome but also often necessary. It is in particular by contrasting evidence from different sources with respect to particular research questions that we may gain a deeper understanding of the status and quality of the individual types of linguistic evidence on the one hand, and of their mutual relationship and respective weight on the other.

The present volume is a collection of (selected) papers presented at the conference on 'Linguistic Evidence' in Tübingen 2004, which was explicitly devoted to the above issues. All of them address these issues in relation to specific linguistic research problems, thereby helping to establish a better understanding of the nature of linguistic evidence in particularly insightful ways.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197549
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018312-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019754-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Voicing in Japanese

Buch 2005

Voicing in Japanese

Jeroen van de Weijer, Kensuke Nanjo, Tetsuo Nishihara

Band 84 in dieser Reihe

This book presents a number of studies which focus on the [voice] grammar of Japanese, paying particular attention to historical background, dialectal diversity, phonetic experiment, and phonological analysis. Both voicing processes in consonants (such as Sequential Voicing, or Rendaku) and vowels (such as vowel devoicing) are examined.

A number of new analyses are presented, focusing on well-known data that have been controversial in phonological debate in the past, but also presenting new (or rediscovered) data, partly through the work of Japanese scholars that hitherto went mostly unnoticed, partly through new database research, and partly through phonetic experiment.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197686
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018600-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019768-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages

Buch 2005

Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages

Katalin É. Kiss

Band 83 in dieser Reihe

Philologists aiming to reconstruct the grammar of ancient languages face the problem that the available data always underdetermine grammar, and in the case of gaps, possible mistakes, and idiosyncracies there are no native speakers to consult. The authors of this volume overcome this difficulty by adopting the methodology that a child uses in the course of language acquisition: they interpret the data they have access to in terms of Universal Grammar (more precisely, in terms of a hypothetical model of UG). Their studies, discussing syntactic and morphosyntactic questions of Older Egyptian, Coptic, Sumerian, Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Greek, Latin, and Classical Sanskrit, demonstrate that descriptive problems which have proved unsolvable for the traditional, inductive approach can be reduced to the interaction of regular operations and constraints of UG. The proposed analyses also bear on linguistic theory. They provide crucial new data and new generalizations concerning such basic questions of generative syntax as discourse-motivated movement operations, the correlation of movement and agreement, a shift from lexical case marking to structural case marking, the licensing of structural case in infinitival constructions, the structure of coordinate phrases, possessive constructions with an external possessor, and the role of event structure in syntax. In addition to confirming or refuting certain specific hypotheses, they also provide empirical evidence of the perhaps most basic tenet of generative theory, according to which UG is part of the genetic endowment of the human species - i.e., human languages do not "develop" parallel with the development of human civilization. Some of the languages examined in this volume were spoken as much as 5000 years old, still their grammars do not differ in any relevant respect from the grammars of languages spoken today.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110902228
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018550-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090222-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Architecture of Focus

Buch 2006

The Architecture of Focus

Valéria Molnár, Susanne Winkler

Band 82 in dieser Reihe

This collection investigates the architecture of focus in linguistic theory from different theoretical perspectives. Research on focus and information structure in the last four decades has shown that the phenomenon of focus is highly complex, the theoretical approaches manifold, and the data highly sensitive. The main emphasis has been placed on the integration of the notion of focus in generative grammar. In recent years, however, the approaches to focus and information structure underwent a radical change in perspective. The theoretical concept of focus, its related terms and phenomena became the object of research. Along with it, the research questions shifted: instead of locating focus in the architecture of grammar, linguists investigate the architecture of focus itself. The central underlying idea of this collection is to document this change in perspective with the aim of isolating essential keystones and research areas in both the theoretical and empirical domain. The book is structured accordingly. Following the introduction, there are four main sections: The general section discusses the theoretical foundations of focus within grammar. The second section hosts papers which investigate the representation of focus and topic at the syntax-pragmatics interface. The third section discusses the phonological representation of focus and its relation to meaning. The papers of the final section investigate different types of focus constructions in a variety languages. The collection of papers on the architecture of focus, its interpretation and representation mirror the establishment of the focus research field.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110922011
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018578-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092201-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Ellipsis and Focus in Generative Grammar

Buch 2005

Ellipsis and Focus in Generative Grammar

Susanne Winkler

Band 81 in dieser Reihe

Covering linguistic research on empty categories over more than three decades, this monograph presents the result of an in-depth syntactic and focus-theoretical investigation of ellipsis in generative grammar. The phenomenon of ellipsis most generally refers to the omission of linguistic material, structure and sound. The central aim of this book is to explain on the basis of linguistic theorizing of how it is possible that we understand more than we actually hear. The answer developed throughout this book is that ellipsis is an interface phenomenon which can only be explained on the basis of the complex interaction between syntax, semantics and information structure. Scholars of grammar and cognitive scientists will profit from reading this book.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110890426
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018601-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089042-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Markedness and Economy in a Derivational Model of Phonology

Buch 2005

Markedness and Economy in a Derivational Model of Phonology

Andrea Calabrese

Band 80 in dieser Reihe

This book proposes a new model of phonology that integrates rules and repairs triggered by markedness constraints in a classical derivational model. In developing this theory, the book offers new solutions to many long-standing problems involving syllabic and segmental phonology with analyses of natural language data, both well-known and relatively unknown. The book also includes a new treatment of Palatalization and Affrication processes, a novel theory of feature visibility as an alternative to feature underspecification and an extensive critique of Optimality Theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197600
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018465-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019760-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A Feature-Based Syntax of Functional Categories

Buch 2005

A Feature-Based Syntax of Functional Categories

The Structure, Acquisition and Specific Impairment of Functional Systems

Michael Hegarty

Band 79 in dieser Reihe

This book develops ideas of Minimalist syntax to derive functional categories from the partially-ordered features expressed by functional elements, thereby dispensing with functional categories as primitives of the theory. It generalizes attempts to do this in the literature, while drawing significant empirical consequences from general constraints formulated to block overgeneration. The resulting theory of the construction of functional categories is applied to various problems in syntactic analysis and comparative and historical syntax, including variation across Germanic languages in patterns of verb-second and in the occurrence of expletive subjects in existential constructions, verb positions in Old and Middle English, problems regarding the placement of clitic pronouns in Romance languages and Modern Greek, and some previously unexamined structures of reduced clause coordination in colloquial English. Facts from early stages of the acquisition of syntax are shown to follow from the mechanisms for the projection of functional features as functional categories, exercised before all of the features for a language, along with their ordering and feature co-occurrence restrictions, have been acquired. It is observed that child acquisition of functional elements exhibits successive developmental stages, each characterized by the number of clausal functional elements which can be represented together within a clause. This, and facts regarding the lag in development of functional categories by children with specific language impairment, are shown to be not entirely reducible to limitations in working memory or processing capacity, but to depend in part on the growth of representational resources for the projection of functional categories.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110895407
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018413-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089540-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Theta Theory

Buch 2005

Theta Theory

Martin Haiden

Band 78 in dieser Reihe

Theta Theory explores the lexicon as an interface in the strict sense, as facilitating the flow of information between cognition and the computational system of language. It argues for the traditional concept of a listed lexicon, where semantic roles are encoded as features of verbs, and against event decomposition.

Part one of the book discusses the link between cognition and the lexicon. Mainstream theories of lexical semantics are critically reviewed. Furthermore, this part provides an extensive description of the relevant data in German, including agentivity, causation, psychological predicates, and different types of diathesis alternations.

Part two is devoted to the link between the lexicon and syntax. It develops a parallel model of grammatical derivation, which allows the formulation of robust generalizations over thematic role assignment, but at the same time acknowledges the relevance of other components, in particular morpho-phonology and narrow syntax. The theory is applied to a wide range of German constructions including modal infinitives, the present and gerundive participle, the past/passive/adjectival participle, verbal particles, auxiliary selection, and unaccusatives/reflexives.

The book is of interest for students and scholars of lexical semantics, for descriptive German linguistics, and for linguists concerned with the development of the Minimalist Program.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197471
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018285-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019747-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Internal Organization of Phonological Segments

Buch 2005

The Internal Organization of Phonological Segments

Marc van Oostendorp, Jeroen van de Weijer

Band 77 in dieser Reihe

This book contains a number of studies on modern approaches to phonological segment structure. There are three main sections: (i) a general section, concerned with the basic theory of segmental structure, features, and the organization of segmental structure into feature-geometric trees, (ii) the representation and behaviour of nasality, and (iii) the representation and behaviour of the laryngeal features.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110890402
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018295-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089040-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonetik
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A Minimalist Approach to Scrambling

Buch 2005

A Minimalist Approach to Scrambling

Evidence from Persian

Simin Karimi

Band 76 in dieser Reihe

This study addresses the problems scrambling langauges provide for the existing syntactic theories by analyzing the interaction of semantic and discourse functional factors with syntactic properties of word order in this type of languages, and by discussing the implications of this interaction for Universal Grammar.

Three interrelated goals are carefully followed in this work. The first is to analyze the syntactic structure of Persian, a language which exhibits free word order. With this analysis, the author has accounted for the relative order of categorized expressions, the motivation for their possible rearrangements, and the grammatical results of those reorderings. In this respect, a broad range of major syntactic phenomena, including object shift, Case, Extended Projection Principle (EPP), binding, and scope interpretation of quantifiers, interrogative phrases, adverbial phrases, and negative elements are examined. This monograph is the first major theoretical work ever published on Persian, and therefore fills the existing gap by providing insight into the syntactic structure of this language. The second goal is to connect these insights to similar linguistic properties in languages in which scrambling occurs (e.g. German, Dutch, Hindi, Russian, Japanese, and Korean), and to provide a deeper understanding of this group of genetically diverse, but typologically related languages. The final and principal goal is to situate the results of this work within the framework of the Minimalist Program (MP).

The investigations in this study indicate that scrambling is not an optional rule, and that certain principles of MP, such as the Minimal Link Condition, are only seemingly violated in these languages. Furthermore, it is shown that careful analysis of scrambling with respect to binding and scope relations, and a reanalysis of the properties of A and A' movements, cast some doubts on the relevance of a typology of movement in natural language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199796
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018296-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019979-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2004

Triggers

Anne Breitbarth, Henk van Riemsdijk

Band 75 in dieser Reihe

The concept of 'trigger' is a core concept of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. The idea that certain types of movement are triggered by some property of the target position is at least as old as the notion that the movement of noun phrases to the subject position is triggered by their need to receive nominative case. In more recent versions of syntactic theory, triggering mechanisms are thought to regulate all of movement. Furthermore, a quite narrow range of triggering mechanisms is permitted. As is to be expected, such a restrictive approach meets a variety of difficulties. Specifically, the question is whether all triggering elements required to cover displacement of all kinds in natural language can be independently motivated. Further, how can a trigger theory, which crucially relies on the idea that all movement is obligatory, deal with apparently optional movement processes? Are features an adequate means to express the triggering function in all cases? More radically, are all movement phenomena really the result of the checking of trigger features? And what about apparent triggering factors that are 'external' to syntax such as prosody - can they be captured in a rigid trigger theory? In other words, could certain aspects of triggered movement be due to interface conditions? Such is the range of questions addressed by the fourteen contributions to this book. They cover a considerable range of languages (including Afrikaans, Breton, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Gungbe, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kiswahili, Romanian). These papers present materials, both empirical and theoretical, that will not fail to have considerable impact on the further development of the concept of trigger in syntactic theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197433
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018139-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019743-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Norwegian Modals

Buch 2006

Norwegian Modals

Kristin Melum Eide

Band 74 in dieser Reihe

Norwegian Modals is a detailed description of the syntactic and semantic properties of modals in Norwegian. Modal verbs in Mainland Scandinavian languages have received much less attention than their English and German counterparts, hence this book seizes the opportunity to present a range of new data and generalizations relevant for the study of Scandinavian languages, but also for the study of modality in Germanic and other languages. The book critically evaluates a range of proposals from the modality literature, focusing on the Theta-properties and the scopal properties of Modals in Germanic languages, and concludes that none of these previous proposals are able to account for the syntax of modals in Norwegian. The Theta-properties of modals are shown to depend on the construction in which the modal occurs, hence neither a raising analysis, a control analysis, nor a raising-versus-control analysis in fact suffices to exhaust these properties of Norwegian modals. The interplay of modals with tense and aspect is likewise thoroughly investigated, presenting a range of data revealing that existing universalist proposals are insufficient to account for even quite regular patterns. Instead, a new analysis is presented, building on a new compositional tense system which exploits aspectual features of predicates and selectional preferences of modal classes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110899634
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017996-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089963-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Subject Positions and Interfaces

Buch 2004

Subject Positions and Interfaces

The Case of European Portuguese

João Costa

Band 73 in dieser Reihe

European Portuguese, like other Romance languages, display a great amount of word order variation. Out of the six logically possible permutations between Subject, Verb and Complement in a transitive sentence, five are possible: SVO, VSO, VOS, OVS and OSV.

The primary goal of this book is to provide an analysis of the several positions where the subject may surface in European Portuguese. Departing from an architecture of the clause as sketched in early minimalist work, containing two subject-related functional categories above VP (AgrP and TP), it is shown that the subject may surface in all potential landing sites: Spec,AgrP, Spec,TP and Spec,VP. Moreover, just like any other argument of the clause, it is claimed that subjects also have the possibility of surfacing in a left-dislocated position, arguably adjoining to the clause's left periphery.

It is shown that there is no free variation. Each of these positions may be occupied by the subject, only if two requirements are met:
i) The position is made available by syntax;
ii) The position does not violate any interface condition.
In other words, the following model is argued for: syntax generates legitimate outputs. At the interface levels, each output may be selected or filtred out, according to requirements of the interface.

The picture emerging from the proposal made in this book is the following: syntax proper does not need to refer to conditions best placed at the interface. All that is needed from syntax is that it generates an array of well-formed outputs. Such outputs may be evaluated a posteriori by each of the interfaces. If they meet requirements of the interface, they are selected as legitimate. If, on the contrary, some interface condition is violated, they are ruled out. Under this approach, three in-dependent results are derived: i) an explanation is found for the patterns of word order variation; ii) syntax proper may be reduced to its own tools, not having to manipulate semantic, discourse or prosodic variables; iii) the intuition that European Portuguese is an SVO language is derived: this word order corresponds to the one in which the subject occupies the only specifier position in which the other interfaces play no role.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197396
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018112-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019739-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Ellipsis in Comparatives

Buch 2004

Ellipsis in Comparatives

Winfried Lechner

Band 72 in dieser Reihe

Generative analyses of comparatives traditionally include two construction specific ellipsis operations, Comparative Deletion and Comparative Ellipsis. Drawing from a wide array of new data, the present monograph develops a novel, directly semantically interpretable analysis of comparatives which does not require reference to designated deletion processes. On the one hand, Comparative Deletion is reinterpreted in terms of overt movement of the degree predicate. The resulting head-raising analysis contributes to an understanding of various puzzles for comparatives related to binding, locality and the influence of word-order variation on the interpretation and size of the ellipsis site. On the other hand, it is argued that Comparative Ellipsis can entirely be subsumed under standardly sanctioned ellipsis operations such as Gapping, Right Node Raising and Across-the-Board-movement. In addition, the study presents arguments for an ellipsis analysis of phrasal comparatives (such as Millhouse saw more movies than Bart). Empirical support for this conception derives, among others, from the complex interdependencies between ellipsis and serialization in English and German, and the binding properties of remnants inside the comparative complement. The study is directed towards readers interested in formal syntax and the syntax/semantics interface.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197402
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018118-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019740-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Noun Phrase in the Generative Perspective

Buch 2007

Noun Phrase in the Generative Perspective

Artemis Alexiadou, Liliane Haegeman, Melita Stavrou

Band 71 in dieser Reihe

The goal of this book is twofold. On the one hand we want to offer a discussion of some of the more important properties of the nominal projection, on the other hand we want to provide the reader with tools for syntactic analysis which apply to the structure of DP but which are also relevant for other domains of syntax.

In order to achieve this dual goal we will discuss phenomena which are related to the nominal projection in relation to other syntactic phenomena (e.g. pro drop will be related to N-ellipsis, the classification of pronouns will be applied to the syntax of possessive pronouns, N-movement will be compared to V-movement, the syntax of the genitive construction will be related to that of predicate inversion etc.). In the various chapters we will show how recent theoretical proposals (distributed morphology, anti-symmetry, checking theory) can cast light on aspects of the syntax of the NP. When necessary, we will provide a brief introduction of these theoretical proposals. We will also indicate problems with these analyses, whether they be inherent to the theories as such (e.g. what is the trigger for movement in antisymmetric approaches) or to the particular instantiations.

The book cannot and will not provide the definitive analysis of the syntax of noun phrases. We consider that this would not be possible, given the current flux in generative syntax, with many new theoretical proposals being developed and explored, but the book aims at giving the reader the tools with which to conduct research and to evaluate proposals in the literature.

In the discussion of various issues, we will apply the framework that is most adequate to deal with problems at hand. We will therefore not necessarily use the same approach throughout the discussion.

Though proposals in the literature will be referred to when relevant, we cannot attempt to provide a critical survey of the literature. We feel that such a survey would be guided too strongly by theoretical choices, which would not be compatible with the pedagogical purposes this book has.

The book is comparative in its approach, and data from different languages will be examined, including English, German, Dutch (West-Flemish), Greek, Romance, Semitic, Slavic, Albanian, Hungarian, Gungbe.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207491
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017684-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020749-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Minimality Effects in Syntax

Buch 2004

Minimality Effects in Syntax

Arthur Stepanov, Gisbert Fanselow, Ralf Vogel

Band 70 in dieser Reihe

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)

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197365
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017961-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019736-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Free Word Order Phenomenon

Buch 2005

The Free Word Order Phenomenon

Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity

Joachim Sabel, Mamoru Saito

Band 69 in dieser Reihe

This book deals with the syntax of the free word order phenomenon (scrambling) in a wide range of languages - in particular, German, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Tongan, and Turkish - in some of which the phenomenon was previously unstudied. In the past, the syntax of free word order phenomena has been studied intensively with respect to its A- and A'-movement properties and in connection with its semantic (undoing) effects. The different articles in this volume offer new ways of analyzing free word order under (i) minimalist assumptions, (ii) concerning the typology of scrambling languages, (iii) with respect to the question of how it is acquired by children, (iv) in connection with its relatedness to information structural factors, and (v) with respect to its consequences for a highly elaborated sentence structure of the IP/VP domain.

The articles that focus mainly on the emprical aspects of free word order phenomena deal with the properties and proper analysis of rightwards scrambling in Turkish, with the A-/A'-nature and triggers for VSO-VOS alternations in Tongan, as well as with left-branch extractions and NP-Split in Slavic and its consequences for a typology of scrambling languages. The articles that focus on theoretical aspects of scrambling deal with questions concerning the motivatation of a derivation with scrambling in a free word order language, such as whether scrambling has to be analyzed as topicalization or focus movement. Or assuming that scrambling is feature-driven, how the technical details of this analysis are implemented in the grammar to avoid unwarranted derivations, for example, derivations with string-vacuous scrambling. A further important question that is addressed is when scrambling is acquired in the development of the grammar, and what the consequences are for the timing of the acquisition of A- and A'-movement properties.

This volume will be most relevant to researchers and advanced students interested in generative syntax, as well as typologists working on German, Japanese, Slavic, Turkish, Dravidian and Austronesian languages.

We regret that due to a layout error the title of Miyagawa's article on "EPP and semantically vacuous scrambling" is misrepresented in the printed version of the book. You can download the article with the corrected title here.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197266
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017822-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019726-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Volume 2 Direct Interface and One-Channel Translation

Buch 2012

Volume 2 Direct Interface and One-Channel Translation

Teil des mehrbändigen Werks A Lateral Theory of Phonology

Band 68.2 in dieser Reihe

Following up on the Guide to Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface Theories (2011), written from a theory-neutral point of view, this book lays out the author’s approach to the representational side of the interface. The book is thus about how information is transmitted to phonology when an object is inserted into phonological representations (as opposed to the derivational means, i.e. phase theory today). The idea of Direct Interface is that diacritics such as hash-marks in SPE or prosodic constituency since the early 80s, which mediate between morpho-syntax and phonology, are illegal in a modular environment where computational systems can only process domain-specific vocabulary. Direct Interface instead holds that only truly phonological vocabulary can carry morpho-syntactic information. It is shown that of all representational objects only syllabic space qualifies. Couched in CVCV (or strict CV), i.e. Government Phonology, this insight is then applied in detailed case studies of Belarusian, Corsican, Greek and the exhaustive lexical inventory of sonorant-obstruent-initial words in 13 Slavic languages,. In this sense, the book is the 2^nd volume of A Lateral Theory of Phonology (2004).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511113
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-108-3
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-111-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Volume 1 What is CVCV and why should it be?

Buch 2004

Volume 1 What is CVCV and why should it be?

Tobias Scheer

Teil des mehrbändigen Werks A Lateral Theory of Phonology

Band 68.1 in dieser Reihe

This book presents a development of Jean Lowenstamm's idea that phonological constituent structure can be reduced to a strict sequence of non-branching Onsets and non-branching Nuclei. The approach at hand is known as 'CVCV', and emerged from Government Phonology. Since its very beginnings in the early 80s, the central claim of this theory has been that syllable-based generalisations are due to lateral relations among constituents, rather than to the familiar arboreal structure. This book shows that Standard Government Phonology did not go far enough in implementing this idea. CVCV completes the missing steps: structure and causality are fully lateralised. Detailed discussion is offered how basic phonological objects and processes such as Codas, closed syllables, long vowels, geminates, syllabic consonants, vowel-zero alternations, closed syllable shortening, compensatory lengthening, lenition and the like can be represented within the CVCV frame. The first part of the book is called "What is CVCV ?". It presents the properties of the theory. The second part focuses on the reasons why it is worthwhile considering CVCV a valuable and viable approach. The primary goal of the book is not to engage the dialogue with other phonological theories. Rather, it aims at establishing a player in the general game: defining the properties of a theory is always prior to its comparison with other models. In the current OT-dominated phonological scene, then, CVCV appears as a true theory of the 80s insofar as it is representational at core: representations exist and are primitive, rather than arising as accidental results from a heterogeneous set of constraints. The original analyses presented in this book are grounded in the languages that the author is best familiar with, i.e. (Western) Slavic, French, German and some Semitic. Particular attention is paid to diachronic evidence in its relation to the synchronic state of languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110908336
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017871-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090833-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Arguments and Structure

Buch 2004

Arguments and Structure

Studies on the Architecture of the Sentence

Teun Hoekstra, Rint Sybesma, Sjef Barbiers, Marcel Den Dikken, Jenny Doetjes, Gertjan Postma, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd

Band 67 in dieser Reihe

This book contains 14 articles by Teun Hoekstra (1953-1998) on core issues in syntactic theory. Some articles focus on the structure of DP, others on the structure of the sentence as a whole, while others still deal explicitly with the parallels between the two. The papers are distributed over four sections: "Argument structure", "T-chains", "The morpho-syntax of verbal and nominal projections" and "Small clauses". More than half of the articles in this book are published here for the first time or appear for the first time in English.

Hoekstra's work is characterized by a fundamental interest in the central questions of syntactic theory, most notably the relation between argument structure and X-bar structure. This concentrated interest led to a deep understanding of the notion of transitivity, with respect to both the status of the external argument and that of the internal argument, where "status" refers to both the content and the licensing. In this collection of papers, Hoekstra reports on his insights in these matters.

As far as content and licensing of the external argument is concerned, this collection contains papers on the relation between passives and their active counterparts, the parallels between possessives and transitives and the differences and similarities between past participles and infinitives. As to the internal argument, we find papers addressing sentential complementation, verbal affixation and resultatives. And there is a whole section on tense, and its role in keeping the sentence together.

One of the papers in this collection is Hoekstra's classic, but hitherto unpublished "Small clauses everywhere" (more than 70 pages), which summarizes Hoekstra's views on such issues as resultatives, particle verbs and double object constructions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197358
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017953-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019735-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory

Buch 2003

Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory

Martin Krämer

Band 66 in dieser Reihe

Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory covers the major issues in the generative analysis of vowel harmony and vowel harmony typology. The book offers an economical account of the most prominent features of vowel harmony systems (root control, affix control, dominance, vowel opacity, and neutrality) within the framework of optimality theory, extending the notion of correspondence to the syntagmatic dimension.The book contains a typological overview of vowel harmony patterns, an introduction to the basics of optimality theory including some of its most recent extensions and detailed studies of harmony systems in 10 languages from a variety of language families.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197310
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017948-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019731-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A Unified Approach to Nasality and Voicing

Buch 2005

A Unified Approach to Nasality and Voicing

Kuniya Nasukawa

Band 65 in dieser Reihe

This book makes an important contribution to the expanding body of work in generative phonology which aims to reduce the number of traditionally recognized melodic categories in order to achieve a greater degree of restrictiveness. By analyzing data from a large number of different languages, Nasukawa establishes a clear affinity between nasality and voicing, and demonstrates the advantages of treating these two properties as different phonetic manifestations of a single nasal-voice category. The choice of whether to interpret this category as voicing or nasality is determined by the active or inactive status of a complement tier; when active, this complement tier enhances the acoustic image of its head category and is interpreted as voicing. This study deepens our understanding of the typological relation between nasality and voicing, and sheds new light on a number of related agreement phenomena such as nasal harmony, postnasal voicing assimilation, voiced-obstruent voicing assimilation and spontaneous prenasalisation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910490
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018481-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091049-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Two-Step Approaches to Natural Language Formalism

Buch 2003

Two-Step Approaches to Natural Language Formalism

Frank Morawietz

Band 64 in dieser Reihe

This book presents a unified formal approach to various contemporary linguistic formalisms such as Government & Binding, Minimalism or Tree Adjoining Grammar. Through a careful introduction of mathematical techniques from logic, automata theory and universal algebra, the book aims at graduate students and researchers who want to learn more about tightly constrained logical approaches to natural language syntax. Therefore it features a complete and well illustrated introduction to the connection between declarative approaches formalized in monadic second-order logic (MSO) and generative ones formalized in various forms of automata as well as of tree grammars.

Since MSO logic (on trees) yields only context-free languages, and at least the last two of the formalisms mentioned above clearly belong to the class of mildly context-sensitive formalisms, it becomes necessary to deal with the problem of the descriptive complexity of the formalisms involved in another way. The proposed genuinely new two-step approach overcomes this limitation of MSO logic while still retaining the desired tightly controlled formal properties.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197259
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017821-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019725-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Living on the Edge

Buch 2003

Living on the Edge

28 Papers in Honour of Jonathan Kaye

Stefan Ploch

Band 62 in dieser Reihe

This collection of papers by an international group of authors honors Jonathan Kaye's contributions to phonology by expanding some of Kaye's ideas to a variety of theoretical topics and languages. The set of ideas discussed or used in this collection includes: empty categories, licensing relationships and constraints, a restrictive two-levelled approach to phonology (without rule ordering or constraint ranking), a restrictive theory of syllabic representation (without the codas constituent and with exclusively binary branching), theories of the phonology-phonetics interface in which phonology is motivated independently of phonetics, and the metatheoretical flaws in a number of widely accepted but rarely questioned views on phonology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110890563
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017619-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089056-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Second Glot International State-of-the-Article Book

Buch 2003

The Second Glot International State-of-the-Article Book

The Latest in Linguistics

Lisa Cheng, Rint Sybesma

Band 61 in dieser Reihe

The Glot International State-of-the-Article books constitute the ideal solution for every-one who wants to have a good idea of what the others are doing but does not have time to follow the developments in all other parts of the field on a day to day basis. All articles were previously published in Glot International and have been revised and updated, and special attention was given to the extensive bibliography, which constitutes an important part of each overview article.

Among the essays in the first volume are overview articles dealing with VP ellipsis (by Kyle Johnson), Ergativity (by Alana Johns), tone (by San Duanmu), acquisition of phonology (by Paula Fikkert), and semantic change (by Elizabeth Closs Traugott).

The second volume offers articles on subjects ranging from the development of grammars (by David Lightfoot) and markedness in phonology (by Keren Rice) to the syntactic representation of linguistic events (by Sara Thomas Rosen), optionality in Optimality syntax (by Gereon Müller) and the nature of coordination (by Ljiljana Progovac).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110890952
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017139-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089095-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Asymmetries in the Phonology of Miogliola

Buch 2001

Asymmetries in the Phonology of Miogliola

Mirco Ghini

Band 60 in dieser Reihe

Drawing on a dual expertise of rare intensity, Mirco Ghini's book is a major contribution to both Romance dialectology and phonological theory. It gives a comprehensive account of the segmental and metrical phonology of the Ligurian dialect of the village of Miogliola, North-west Italy. Based on the author's own fieldwork, it is the first in-depth study of this area, also tracing its development from Latin. Feature assignment, underspecification, and quantity alternations are most prominent among the general theoretical issues on which the particulars of Miogliola phonology, meticuously analysed, are brought to bear with elegance and force.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110873023
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017090-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087302-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Semi-lexical Categories

Buch 2001

Semi-lexical Categories

The Function of Content Words and the Content of Function Words

Norbert Corver, Henk van Riemsdijk

Band 59 in dieser Reihe

The distinction between functional categories and lexical categories is at the heart of present-day grammatical theory, in theories on language acquisition, code-switching and aphasia. At the same time, it has become clear, however, that there are many lexical items for which it is less easy to decide whether they side with the lexical categories or the functional ones. This book deals with the grammatical behavior of such in- between-categories, which are referred to here as "semi-lexical categories".

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110874006
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016685-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087400-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Development in Prosodic Systems

Buch 2003

Development in Prosodic Systems

Paula Fikkert, Haike Jacobs

Band 58 in dieser Reihe

This book brings together papers on various aspects of prosodic development from a generative linguistic perspective. It addresses issues such as the relationship between tone, stress and quantity, the evidence for prosodic change from metrics and discusses the role of analogy, language contact, and language acquisition in change. The unique combination of different methodologies and perspectives investigating development in prosodic systems provides a new and broader scope on historical linguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110894530
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016684-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089453-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Word Order in Brazilian Portuguese

Buch 2001

Word Order in Brazilian Portuguese

Gláucia V. Silva

Band 57 in dieser Reihe

This book is a new contribution to syntactic theory. The reader will find a clear overview of the central facts concerning Brazilian Portuguese (BP) word order, as well as a comparison to the facts in other Romance languages (Spanish, Italian, and French). In relating other Romance languages to BP, the book shows that BP word order has a number of interesting restrictions that set this language clearly apart from the other Romance languages. This volume provides accounts for declaratives and interrogatives found not only in BP but also in the other Romance languages discussed, taking into consideration parametric differences among the languages studied.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110869552
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017193-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086955-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Phonology of Romanian

Buch 2002

The Phonology of Romanian

A Constraint-Based Approach

Ioana Chitoran

Band 56 in dieser Reihe

This book provides the first systematic descriptive analysis of the phonological system of Romanian, one of the less studied Romance languages, from the perspective of recent phonological theory. The author offers an account of some of the major phonological processes of modern standard Romanian, set in the framework of Optimality Theory and Correspondence Theory.

The book begins with an overview of Romanian phonology - segment inventory, phonotactics, inflectional and derivational morphology. The main part of the study focuses on processes involving vocalic segments: glide-vowel and diphthong-vowel alternations, vowel harmony, palatalization. The major issues addressed include feature theory, syllable structure, metrical structure and stress, the interaction between phonology and morphology. Acoustic phonetic data is used as supporting evidence for the phonological patterning of diphthongs and glide-vowel sequences. Interesting complexities of the system are pointed out and discussed, as they pose certain challenges to the theoretical model.

The book contains an abundance of systematically organized data, which makes it a solid reference for students and scholars of general and Romance phonology, and a strong basis for further study.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110889185
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016766-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088918-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Infinitives

Buch 2001

Infinitives

Restructuring and Clause Structure

Susanne Wurmbrand

Band 55 in dieser Reihe

Infinitives: Restructuring and Clause Structure offers a detailed study of the clausal architecture of infinitival constructions providing a unified analysis of restructuring, control, modals, and raising. The book critically evaluates previous proposals from both syntactic and semantic perspectives and presents a new analysis incorporating many recent developments in generative linguistic theory. In addition to its theoretical contribution, Infinitives contains a detailed descriptive overview of a range of constructions, primarily from the Germanic languages and will thus not only be of value to generative linguists but will also serve as a general reference source for those interested in the Germanic languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110908329
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017864-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090832-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Current Issues in Spanish Syntax and Semantics

Buch 2001

Current Issues in Spanish Syntax and Semantics

Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Luis Silva-Villar

Band 53 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110850536
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016929-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085053-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Phonology and Morphology of Reduplication

Buch 2000

The Phonology and Morphology of Reduplication

Eric Raimy

Band 52 in dieser Reihe

This book proposes a new representational analysis of reduplication based on making explicit precedence relations in phonological representations.
The main claim is that reduplication results from loops in the precedence structure of phonological representations. Modular rule based analyses of overapplication and underapplication effects including backcopying are presented to argue against the McCarthy and Prince (1995) claim that a derivational model of reduplication is conceptually and empirically inadequate. Other sections of the book discuss the implications of explicit precedence information for the concatenation of morphemes, the analysis of infixation, and templates in reduplication. Analyses of relevant phenomena from Indonesian, Tohono Oodham, Chaha, Chumash and Nancowry among other languages are provided.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110825831
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016932-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082583-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology

Buch 2001

Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology

Jeroen van de Weijer, Tetsuo Nishihara

Band 51 in dieser Reihe

The book contains a number of studies in Japanese phonology and morphology, all analyses by leading scholars in the field. It presents an overview of the work that has been done in Japan and other countries and offers new solutions to long-standing problems. In the phonology chapters, it focuses on segmental as well as suprasegmental issues, including voicing and tone, approaching these issues from a variety of perspectives, including Optimality Theory and Government Phonology. In the morphology chapters, attention is given to truncation patterns and the possibilities for compound formation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110885989
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016958-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088598-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Lexicon and Grammar

Buch 2001

Lexicon and Grammar

The English Syntacticon

Joseph E. Emonds

Band 50 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110872996
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016689-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087299-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Competition in Syntax

Buch 2001

Competition in Syntax

Gereon Müller, Wolfgang Sternefeld

Band 49 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110829068
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016945-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082906-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The First Glot International State-of-the-Article Book

Buch 2000

The First Glot International State-of-the-Article Book

The Latest in Linguistics

Lisa Cheng, Rint Sybesma

Band 48 in dieser Reihe

The Glot International State-of-the-Article books constitute the ideal solution for everyone who wants to have a good idea of what the others are doing but does not have time to follow the developments in all other parts of the field on a day to day basis. All articles were previously published in Glot International and have been revised and updated, and special attention was given to the extensive bibliography, which constitutes an important part of each overview article.

Among the essays in the first volume are overview articles dealing with VP ellipsis (by Kyle Johnson), Ergativity (by Alana Johns), tone (by San Duanmu), acquisition of phonology (by Paula Fikkert), and semantic change (by Elizabeth Closs Traugott).

The second volume offers articles on subjects ranging from the development of grammars (by David Lightfoot) and markedness in phonology (by Keren Rice) to the syntactic representation of linguistic events (by Sara Thomas Rosen), optionality in Optimality syntax (by Gereon Müller) and the nature of coordination (by Ljiljana Progovac).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110822861
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016954-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082286-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Phonological Projection

Buch 2000

Phonological Projection

A Theory of Feature Content and Prosodic Structure

Marc van Oostendorp

Band 47 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110809244
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015422-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080924-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Consequences of Antisymmetry

Buch 1999

Consequences of Antisymmetry

Headed Relative Clauses

Valentina Bianchi

Band 46 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110803372
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016250-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080337-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Syllable

Buch 1999

The Syllable

Views and Facts

Harry van der Hulst, Nancy Ritter

Band 45 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806793
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016274-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080679-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Mathematics of Syntactic Structure

Buch 1999

The Mathematics of Syntactic Structure

Trees and their Logics

Hans-Peter Kolb, Uwe Mönnich

Band 44 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806786
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016273-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080678-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Zoosemiotik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Focus and Secondary Predication

Buch 1997

Focus and Secondary Predication

Susanne Winkler

Band 43 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110815214
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015057-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081521-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A-bar Syntax

Buch 1995

A-bar Syntax

A Study in Movement Types

Gereon Müller

Band 42 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110814286
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014469-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081428-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Studies on Scrambling

Buch 1994

Studies on Scrambling

Movement and Non-Movement Approaches to Free Word-Order Phenomena

Norbert Corver, Henk van Riemsdijk

Band 41 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110857214
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013572-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085721-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Syntax of Romanian

Buch 1994

The Syntax of Romanian

Comparative Studies in Romance

Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin

Band 40 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110886597
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013541-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088659-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Case and Other Functional Categories in Finnish Syntax

Buch 1993

Case and Other Functional Categories in Finnish Syntax

Anders Holmberg, Urpo Nikanne

Band 39 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110902600
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013812-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090260-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Case and Agreement in Inuit

Buch 1991

Case and Agreement in Inuit

Reineke Bok-Bennema

Band 38 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110869156
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013025-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086915-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A Theory of Stress and Accent

Buch 1991

A Theory of Stress and Accent

Shosuke Haraguchi

Band 37 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110859935
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013151-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085993-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Grammar in Progress

Buch 1990

Grammar in Progress

GLOW Essays for Henk van Riemsdijk

Joan Mascaró, Marina Nespor

Band 36 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110867848
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013064-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086784-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Ergativity in German

Buch 1989

Ergativity in German

Günther Grewendorf

Band 35 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110859256
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013065-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085925-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Deutsch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Configurationality

Buch 1989

Configurationality

The typology of asymmetries

László Marácz, Pieter Muysken

Band 34 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110884883
ISBN:: 9783110884883
ISBN:: 9783110130447
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Parameters in the grammar of Basque

Buch 1989

Parameters in the grammar of Basque

A GB approach to Basque syntax

Jon Ortiz de Urbina

Band 33 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110876741
ISBN:: 9783110876741
ISBN:: 9783110131055
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Anaphora in Norwegian and the Theory of Grammar

Buch 1988

Anaphora in Norwegian and the Theory of Grammar

Lars Hellan

Band 32 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110849134
ISBN:: 9783110849134
ISBN:: 9783110130690
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Levels of representation in the lexicon and in the syntax

Buch 1987

Levels of representation in the lexicon and in the syntax

Maria Luisa Zubizarreta

Band 31 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110859928
ISBN:: 9783110859928
ISBN:: 9783110131499
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Domains and Dynasties

Buch 1987

Domains and Dynasties

The Radical Autonomy of Syntax

Jan Koster

Band 30 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110808520
ISBN:: 9783110808520
ISBN:: 9783110130843
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Issues in Japanese Linguistics

Buch 1987

Issues in Japanese Linguistics

Takashi Imai, Mamoru Saito

Band 29 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112420423
ISBN:: 9783112420423
ISBN:: 9783112420416
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Generative Studies in Spanish syntax

Buch 1986

Generative Studies in Spanish syntax

Ivonne Bordelois, Heles Contreras

Band 27 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110859232
ISBN:: 9783110859232
ISBN:: 9783110130621
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Generalized binding

Buch 1985

Generalized binding

The syntax and logical form of wh-interrogatives

Joseph Aoun

Band 26 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111392851
ISBN:: 9783111392851
ISBN:: 9783111030364
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Features and Projections

Buch 1986

Features and Projections

Pieter Muysken, Henk van Riemsdijk

Band 25 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110871661
ISBN:: 9783110871661
ISBN:: 9783110130577
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: FOCUS in the Theory of Grammar and the Syntax of Hungarian

Buch 1985

FOCUS in the Theory of Grammar and the Syntax of Hungarian

Julia Horvath

Band 24 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110849165
ISBN:: 9783110849165
ISBN:: 9783110130751
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Prosodic Phonology

Buch 2007

Prosodic Phonology

With a New Foreword

Marina Nespor, Irene Vogel

Band 28 in dieser Reihe

Prosodic Phonology by Marina Nespor and Irene Vogel is now available again. "Nespor & Vogel 1986" is a citation classic - even after twenty years, it is still recognized as the standard resource on Prosodic Phonology. This groundbreaking work introduces all of the prosodic constituents (syllable, foot, word, clitic group, phonological phrase, intonational phrase and utterance) and provides evidence for each one from numerous languages.

Prosodic Phonology also includes a chapter in which experimental psycholinguistic data support the proposed hierarchy. A perceptual study provides evidence that prosodic constituent structure - not syntactic constituent structure - predicts whether listeners are able to disambiguate different types of ambiguous sentences. A chapter on the phonology of poetic meter examines portions of Dante's Divine Comedy. It is demonstrated that the constituents proposed for spoken language also make interesting predictions about literary metrical patterns.

Prosodic Phonology is an important reference not only for phonologists, but for all linguists interested in the issue of interfaces among the components of grammar. It is also a basic resource for psycholinguists and cognitive scientists working on linguistic perception and language acquisition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110977790
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019789-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097779-0
ISBN:: 9783110197907
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Rule Generalization and Optionality in Language Change

Buch 1985

Rule Generalization and Optionality in Language Change

Samuel J. Keyser, Wayne O'Neill

Band 23 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110250541
ISBN:: 9783110130829
ISBN:: 9783110250541
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Grammatical Representation

Buch 1984

Grammatical Representation

J. Guéron, H.-G. Obenauer, J. -Y. Pollock

Band 22 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112328064
ISBN:: 9783112328064
ISBN:: 9783112328057
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Studies in German Grammar

Buch 1985

Studies in German Grammar

Jindrich Toman

Band 21 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110882711
ISBN:: 9783110882711
ISBN:: 9783110131284
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Deutsch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Syntactic Modularity

Buch 1984

Syntactic Modularity

Gabriella Hermon

Band 20 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110849141
ISBN:: 9783110849141
ISBN:: 9783110130706
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A Unified Theory of Syntactic Categories

Buch 1985

A Unified Theory of Syntactic Categories

Joseph E. Emonds

Band 19 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110808513
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013054-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080851-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Generative Morphology

Buch 1984

Generative Morphology

Sergio Scalise

Band 18 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112328040
ISBN:: 9783112328040
ISBN:: 9783112328033
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Generative Morphology

Buch 1986

Generative Morphology

Sergio Scalise

Band 18 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110877328
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013118-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087732-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cyclic and lexical phonology

Buch 1984

Cyclic and lexical phonology

the structure of Polish

Jerzy Rubach

Band 17 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111392837
ISBN:: 978-3-11-103033-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-139283-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Connectedness and binary branching

Buch 1984

Connectedness and binary branching

Richard S. Kayne

Band 16 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111682228
ISBN:: 9783111682228
ISBN:: 9783111295572
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: On the Content of Empty Categories

Buch 1983

On the Content of Empty Categories

Denis Bouchard

Band 14 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110850000
ISBN:: 9783110850000
ISBN:: 9783110130386
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Parametric Syntax

Buch 1984

Parametric Syntax

Case Studies in Semitic and Romance Languages

Hagit Borer

Band 13 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110808506
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013037-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080850-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Topics in Romance Syntax

Buch 1981

Topics in Romance Syntax

Osvaldo Jaeggli

Band 12 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112420225
ISBN:: 9783112420225
ISBN:: 9783112420218
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Issues in Italian Syntax

Buch 1982

Issues in Italian Syntax

Luigi Rizzi

Band 11 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110883718
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013914-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088371-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Levels of Syntactic Representation

Buch 1981

Levels of Syntactic Representation

Robert May, Jan Koster

Band 10 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110874167
ISBN:: 9783110874167
ISBN:: 9783110130898
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Lectures on Government and Binding

Buch 1993

Lectures on Government and Binding

The Pisa Lectures

Noam Chomsky

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110884166
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014131-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088416-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Semantic Interpretation of Aspect and Aktionsarten

Buch 1979

The Semantic Interpretation of Aspect and Aktionsarten

A study of internal time reference in Swedish

Christer Platzack

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112420263
ISBN:: 9783112420263
ISBN:: 9783112420256
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 1979

Gapping

A Contribution to Sentence Grammar

Anneke Neijt

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112420188
ISBN:: 9783112420188
ISBN:: 9783112420171
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 1979

Gapping

A contribution to sentence grammar

Anneke Neijt

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111546001
ISBN:: 9783111546001
ISBN:: 9783111177489
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Generative studies on Creole languages

Buch 1981

Generative studies on Creole languages

Pieter Muysken

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111392844
ISBN:: 978-3-11-103034-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-139284-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Locality principles in syntax

Buch 1978

Locality principles in syntax

Jan Koster

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110882339
ISBN:: 9783110882339
ISBN:: 9783110133158
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A case study In syntactic markedness

Buch 1981

A case study In syntactic markedness

The binding nature of prepositional phrases

Henk van Riemsdijk

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112327760
ISBN:: 9783112327760
ISBN:: 9783112327753
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Dutch Morphology

Buch 1977

Dutch Morphology

A Study of Word Formation in Generative Grammar

G. E. Booij

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112327708
ISBN:: 9783112327708
ISBN:: 9783112327692
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Syntactic Developments in the Verb Phrase of Ecuadorian Quechua

Buch 1977

Syntactic Developments in the Verb Phrase of Ecuadorian Quechua

Pieter Muysken

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112420201
ISBN:: 9783112420201
ISBN:: 9783112420195
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A Formal Theory of Exceptions in Generative Phonology

Buch 1978

A Formal Theory of Exceptions in Generative Phonology

Wim Zonneveld

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110859911
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013148-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085991-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

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