Consequences of Antisymmetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consequences of Antisymmetry write by Valentina Bianchi. This book was released on 2011-11-21. Consequences of Antisymmetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation
Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation write by Michael Barrie. This book was released on 2011-06-17. Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative analysis of noun incorporation and related linguistic phenomena does more than just give readers an insightful exploration of its subject. The author re-evaluates—and forges links between—two influential theories of phrase structure: Chomsky’s Bare Phrase Structure and Richard Kayne’s Antisymmetry. The text details how the two linguistic paradigms interact to cause differing patterns of noun incorporation across world languages. With a solid empirical foundation in its close reading of Northern Iroquoian languages especially, Barrie argues that noun incorporation needs no special mechanism, but results from a symmetry-breaking operation. Drawing additional data from English, German, Persian, Tamil and the Polynesian language Niuean, this synthesis has major implications for our understanding of the formation of the verbal complex and the intra-position (roll-up) movement. It will be priority reading for students of phrase structure, as well as Iroquoian language scholars.
Syntactic architecture and its consequences II
Syntactic architecture and its consequences II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Syntactic architecture and its consequences II write by András Bárány. This book was released on 2020-12-30. Syntactic architecture and its consequences II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between descriptive and explanatory adequacy which has long animated generative linguistics and which continues to grow thanks to the increasing amount and diversity of data available to us. The chapters address research questions in comparative morphosyntax, including the modelling of syntactic categories, relative clauses, and demonstrative systems. Many of these contributions show the influence of research by Ian Roberts and collaborators and give the reader a sense of the lively nature of current discussion of topics in morphosyntax and morphosyntactic variation.
Functional Heads
Functional Heads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Functional Heads write by Laura Brugé. This book was released on 2012-06-20. Functional Heads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The cartographic project considers evidence for a functional head in one language as evidence for it in universal grammar. In this volume, some of the most influential linguists who have participated in this long-lasting debate offer their recent work in short, self contained case studies.
Reconstruction Effects in Relative Clauses
Reconstruction Effects in Relative Clauses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconstruction Effects in Relative Clauses write by Manfred Krifka. This book was released on 2018-11-19. Reconstruction Effects in Relative Clauses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reconstruction effects in relative clauses are a class of phenomena where the external head of the relative clause seems to behave as if it occupied a position within the relative clause, as far as some commonly accepted principle of grammar is concerned. An often cited type of example is “The [relative of his] [which every man admires most] is his mother.”, where the pronoun “his” in the relative head appears to be bound by the quantified noun phrase “every man” in the relative clause – although the latter does not c-command the former, which is commonly required for binding. Several solutions have been developed in various theoretical frameworks. One interesting aspect about reconstruction effects in relative clauses is that they can be used as a benchmark for competing theories of grammar: Which architecture of the syntax-semantics interface can provide the most satisfying explanation for these phenomena? This volume brings together researchers working in different frameworks but looking at the same set of empirical facts, enabling the reader to develop their own perspective on the perfect tradeoff between syntax and semantics in a theory of grammar.
