Syntax and its limits

by Folli, Raffaella Sevdali, Christina Truswell, Robert

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Leading linguists explore the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which both syntactic and nonsyntactic analyses appear plausible. The volume is organized into four thematic sections: architectures; syntax and information structure; syntax and the lexicon; and lexical items at the interfaces.

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

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Publication Date:2013.

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

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Description:1 online resource (479 pages)

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ISBN:9780191506260, 0191506265, 9780191763212, 0191763217
oclc:ocn868922320
LC Classification:P295
Dewey Decimal:415

Cover; Syntax and its Limits; Copyright; Contents; General Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Abbreviations; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Part I: Architectures; 1.2 Part II: Syntax and Information Structure; 1.3 Part III: Syntax and the Lexicon; 1.4 Part IV: Lexical Items at the Interfaces; Part I: Architectures; 2 : Harmonic Derivationalism; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Opacity; 2.3 The Condition on Extraction from Copies; 2.4 Analysis; 2.4.1 The DS-LF model; 2.5 Discussion; 2.6 Conclusion; 3: Reconstruction, Control, and Movement; 3.1 Introduction

3.2 Reconstruction Across Control Dependencies3.3 Lechner's Double Dissociation; 3.4 Trapping and Countertrapping; 3.4 Conclusion; 4: Linearizing Empty Edges; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 A Phonological Account of the ECP; 4.2.1 The data and a phonological account; 4.2.2 Problems with prosodic accounts; 4.3 Towards a New Account of Empty-Edge Effects; 4.3.1 The road to phonology; 4.3.2 Our account: empty-edge effects follow from linearization; 4.4 Conclusion; 5: Evidence for the Use of Verb Telicity in Sentence Comprehension; 5.1 Introduction; 5.1.1 Event structure and telicity

5.1.2 Telicity is not reduc…

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