Syntax and its limits

by Folli, Raffaella Sevdali, Christina Truswell, Robert

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Full title :Syntax and its limits / edited by Raffaella Folli, Christina Sevdali, and Robert Truswell.

Summary

In this book, leading linguists explore the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which both syntactic and nonsyntactic analyses initially appear plausible. Exploring the nature of such phenomena permits a deeper understanding of the nature of syntax and of neighbouring modules and their interaction. The book contributes to both traditional work in generative syntax and to the recent emphasis placed on questions related to the interfaces. The major topics covered include areas of current intensive research within the Minimalist Program and syntactic theory more generally, such as constraints on scope and binding relations, information-structural effects on syntactic structure, the structure of words and idioms, argument- and event-structural alternations, and the nature of the relations between syntactic, semantic, and phonological representations. After the editors' introduction, the volume is organized into four thematic sections: architectures; syntax and information structure; syntax and the lexicon; and lexical items at the interfaces. The volume is of interest to syntactic theorists, as well as linguists and cognitive scientists working in neighbouring disciplines such as lexical and compositional semantics, pragmatics and discourse structure, and morphophonology, and anyone with an interest in the modular architecture of the language faculty. Editors: Raffaella Folli is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Ulster. Christina Sevdali is a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Ulster. Robert Truswell is Assistant Professor of Syntax at the University of Ottawa. Publisher's note.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:xxv, 450 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0199683239, 9780199683239, 0199683247, 9780199683246
oclc:ocn833046422
LC Classification:P291
Dewey Decimal:415.0

1. Introduction / Raffaella Folli, Christina Sevdali, and Robert Truswell -- PART I Architectures: 2.Harmonic Derivationalism / Winfried Lechner -- 3.Reconstruction, Control, and Movement / Robert Truswell -- 4.Linearizing Empty Edges / Terje Lohndal and Bridget Samuels -- 5.Evidence for the Use of Verb Telicity in Sentence Comprehension / Erin O'Bryan, Raffaella Folli, Heidi Harle, and Thomas G. Bever -- PART II Syntax and Information Structure: 6.Focus Intervention in Declaratives / Aviad Eilam -- 7.Root Phenomena as Interface Phenomena: Evidence from Non-sententials / Cecile De Cat -- 8.`Contrast' and its Relation to wa in Japanese and nun in Korean / Reiko Vermeulen -- PART III Syntax and the Lexicon: 9. Adjuncts Within Words and Complex Heads / Glyne Piggott and Lisa deMena Travis -- 10. Still Puzzled by Adjectival Passives? / Berit Gehrke -- 11. The Role of Syntax in Stress Assignment in Serbo-Croatian / Boban Arsenijivic and Marko Simonovic -- 12. Allosemy, Idioms, and their Domains: Evidence from Adjectival Participles / Elena Anagnostopoulou and Yota Samioti -- 13. The `No Agent Idioms' Hypothesis / Heidy Harley and Megan Schildmier Stone -- PART IV Lexical Items at the I…