Rethinking parameters

by Eguren, Luis Fernádez Soriano, Olga Mendikoetxea, Amaya

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Full title :Rethinking parameters / edited by Luis Eguren, Olga Fernádez-Soriano, and Amaya Mendikoetxea.

Summary

Parameters of linguistic variation were originally conceived, within the Chomskyan Principles and Parameters Theory, as options determined by Universal Grammar (UG) and associated with grammatical principles, with a rich deductive structure. This characterization of parametric differences among languages has changed significantly over the years, especially so with the advent of Minimalism. This book collects a representative sample of current generative research on the status, origin, and size of parameters. Often taking diverging views, the chapters address frequently debated topics in parametric syntax, such as: Are parameters provided by UG, or do they constitute emergent properties arising from points of underspecification? In which component(s) of the language faculty are parameters to be found? Do clustering effects actually hold across languages? The volume is organized into two parts. The studies in Part I discuss general issues related to parameters (or variation more generally). Part II includes a number of papers that deal with the empirical basis and proper formulation of well-known particular parameters: the Null Subject Parameter, the NP/DP Parameter, the Compounding Parameter, the Wh-Parameter and the Analyticity Parameter.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

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Description:viii, 391 pàgines : : il·lustracions ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780190461744, 0190461748
oclc:on1120583881

Conté: Language variability in syntactic theory / David Adger -- Considerations pertaining to the nature of logodiversity / Cedric Boeckx -- Deriving linguistic variation from learnability conditions : the chunking procedure / Adriana Fasanella and Jordi Fortuny -- Lexical items and feature bundling : consequences for microparametric approaches to variation / Ángel J. Gallego -- Some remarks on parameter hierarchies / Ian Roberts -- Parametric variation in nominal root compounding / Leah S. Bauke -- Macroparameters break down under the weight of evidence : the "NP/DP" parameter as a case study / Youngmi Jeong -- The wh parameter and radical externalization / Éric Mathieu -- The null subject parameter and the lexicon in minimalist syntax / Guido Mensching and Anja Weingart -- Rethinking parameter theory diachronically : a macrocomparative approach to the analyticization of the verbal tense-aspect systems of Brazilian Portuguese and Coptic Egyptian / Chris H. Reintges and Sonia Cyrino

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