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Structures and Beyond: Volume 3: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures

Author : Adriana Belletti
Publisher : OUP USA
Release Date : 2004-07-15
ISBN 10 : 9780195171976
Pages : 287 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (719 downloads)

Download Structures and Beyond: Volume 3: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures PDF Full Free by Adriana Belletti and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adriana Belletti here collects work by scholars presented at the University of Siena in connection with a visit by Noam Chomsky. The book's eight articles touch on broader theoretical questions related to Chomsky's Minimalist Program in particular. Contributors include Guglielmo Cinque, Richard Kayne, Luigi Rizzi, Noam Chomsky, and others.

Structures and Beyond

Author : Adriana Belletti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-07-29
ISBN 10 : 9780190291433
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (914 downloads)

Download Structures and Beyond PDF Full Free by Adriana Belletti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume in the subset of volumes in the comparative syntax series devoted to the cartography of syntactic structures. Adriana Belletti has collected articles by top linguists that were originally presented at a workshop at the University of Siena in conjunction with a visit by Noam Chomsky. The articles go beyond mapping syntactic and semantic/pragmatic properties, also touching on broader questions, particularly related to the Minimalist Program and other recent theoretical developments. Contributors include Adriana Belletti, Alfonso Caramazza, Gennaro Chierchia, Guglielmo Cinque, Noam Chomsky, Richard Kayne, Jacques Mehler, Marina Nespor, Luigi Rizzi, Kevin Shapiro, and Michael Starke.

Beyond Functional Sequence

Author : Ur Shlonsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-01
ISBN 10 : 9780190210601
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (16 downloads)

Download Beyond Functional Sequence PDF Full Free by Ur Shlonsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that studies the syntactic structures of a particular language in order to better understand the semantic issues at play in that language. The approach arranges a language's morpho-syntactic features in a rigid universal hierarchy, and its research agenda is to describe this hierarchy -- that is, to draw maps of syntactic configurations. Current work in cartography is both empirical -- extending the approach to new languages and new structures -- and theoretical. The 16 articles in this collection will advance both dimensions. They arise from presentations made at the Syntactic Cartography: Where do we go from here? colloquium held at the University of Geneva in June of 2012 and address three questions at the core of research in syntactic cartography: 1. Where do the contents of functional structure come from? 2. What explains the particular order or hierarchy in which they appear? 3. What are the computational restrictions on the activation of functional categories? Grouped thematically into four sections, the articles address these questions through comparative studies across various languages, such as Italian, Old Italian, Hungarian, English, Jamaican Creole, Japanese, and Chinese, among others.

Structures and Beyond

Author : Adriana Belletti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-07-29
ISBN 10 : 9780198038382
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (383 downloads)

Download Structures and Beyond PDF Full Free by Adriana Belletti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adriana Belletti here collects work presented by top scholars at a workshop at the University of Siena in connection with a visit by Noam Chomsky. These eight articles go beyond strictly mapping syntactic properties, touching on broader theoretical questions related to Chomsky's Minimalist Program in particular. The reputation of the contributors, combined with the collection of cutting-edge research in one place, will interest scholars and students of generative linguistics.

Functional Structure from Top to Toe

Author : Peter Svenonius
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-09-26
ISBN 10 : 9780199378531
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (785 downloads)

Download Functional Structure from Top to Toe PDF Full Free by Peter Svenonius and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of nine original chapters on central issues in theoretical syntax, all written by distinguished authors who have made major contributions to generative syntax, plus an introductory chapter by the editor. Dedicated to Tarald Taraldsen, the collection reflects the diverse energies that have pushed the cartographic program forward over the last decade. The first three papers deal with subject extraction, the que/qui alternation, and relative clause formation. Luigi Rizzi presents arguments that subjects are 'criterial' and that subject extraction is highly restricted. Hilda Koopman and Dominique Sportiche concur, suggesting that what appears to be subject extraction in French has been misanalyzed, and involves a relative structure. Adriana Belletti shows that children avoid using object relatives, preferring subject relatives, even when it requires passivization. The fourth paper, by Ian Roberts, analyzes the loss of pro-drop in the history of French and Brazilian Portuguese. The papers by M. Rita Manzini and Richard S. Kayne both present novel analyses of complementizers, suggesting that they are essentially nominal, rather than verbal. The final three papers address the relationship of morphology to syntax. The first two argue for a syntactic approach to word formation, Guglielmo Cinque's in a typological context and Anders Holmberg's within an analysis of Finnish focus constructions. The final paper, by Edwin Williams, presents an argument for the limitations of the syntactic approach to word formation.

Structuring Sense: Volume III: Taking Form

Author : Hagit Borer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-10
ISBN 10 : 9780199263936
Pages : 698 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (639 downloads)

Download Structuring Sense: Volume III: Taking Form PDF Full Free by Hagit Borer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hagit Borer develops a new model of word formation, arguing that on the one hand the basic building blocks of language are rigid semantic and syntactic functions, while on the other hand they are roots, which in themselves are but packets of phonological information, and are devoid of both meaning and grammatical properties of any kind.

The Structure of CP and IP

Author : Luigi Rizzi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-06-17
ISBN 10 : 0198036159
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (98 downloads)

Download The Structure of CP and IP PDF Full Free by Luigi Rizzi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of syntactic complexity and the identification of the elementary structural units involved have always been a component of research in the field of theoretical syntax. Still, these topics have recently acquired a higher degree of prominence and autonomy, which has led to an expansion in the ways syntacticians conceptualize syntactic representations and their interactions with other research topics. The Structure of CP and IP is the second volume in the Cartography of Syntactic Structures, a subgroup within the Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax series. Funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, this research endeavor gave rise to the publication of the first such volume, The Functional Structure of DP and IP, which focuses primarily on the structure of nominal expressions and on certain aspects of clausal expressions. This second edited volume examines the structure of the clauses, with special reference to the inflectional domain (IP) and the left peripheral field of the clause (CP). With contributions by a select group of syntacticians, The Structure of CP and IP will be useful to scholars with an interest in Italian, Romance, and comparative syntax, and of substantial value to all linguists interested in contemporary research in generative grammar.

Mapping Spatial PPs

Author : Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-13
ISBN 10 : 0199813272
Pages : 312 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (998 downloads)

Download Mapping Spatial PPs PDF Full Free by Guglielmo Cinque and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping Spatial PPs focuses on a particular aspect of the internal syntax of prepositional phrases that has been relatively neglected in previous studies: the fine-grained articulation of their structure. With contributions from top scholars in the field, this volume investigates such components as direction, location, axial part, deictic center, absolute (ambiental) and relative view point, using evidence from Romance, Germanic, and African languages, with references to other language families. Mapping Spatial PPs demonstrates that the internal structure of prepositional phrases is richer than previously recognized.

Aspects of Split Ergativity

Author : Jessica Coon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-07
ISBN 10 : 9780199858750
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (587 downloads)

Download Aspects of Split Ergativity PDF Full Free by Jessica Coon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspects of Split Ergativity argues that aspect-based split ergativity does not mark a split in how Case is assigned, but rather, a split in sentence structure. The contexts in which we find the appearance of a nonergative pattern in an otherwise ergative language-namely, the nonperfective aspects-involve an intransitive aspectual matrix verb and a subordinated lexical verb.

Questions of Syntax

Author : Richard S. Kayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-22
ISBN 10 : 9780190863616
Pages : 400 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (636 downloads)

Download Questions of Syntax PDF Full Free by Richard S. Kayne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought; yet there are far fewer than there might have been. Questions of Syntax collects sixteen papers authored by Richard S. Kayne, a preeminent theoretical syntactician, who has sought over the course of his career to understand why both these facts are true. With a particular emphasis on comparative syntax, these chapters collectively consider how wide a range of questions the field of syntax can reasonably attempt to ask and then answer. At issue, among other topics, are the relation between syntax and (certain aspects of) semantics, the relation between syntax and what appear to be lexical questions, the relation between syntax and morphology, the relation between syntax and certain aspects of phonology (insofar as silent elements and their properties play a substantial role), and the extent to which comparative syntax can provide new and decisive evidence bearing on these different kinds of questions. To Kayne, comparative syntax can shed light on what may initially seem lexical questions, and antisymmetry on the evolution of human language itself. Taken as a whole, these essays elucidate the theoretical contributions of one the most influential scholars in linguistics.

Mapping the Left Periphery

Author : Paola Beninca
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-16
ISBN 10 : 0199842310
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (998 downloads)

Download Mapping the Left Periphery PDF Full Free by Paola Beninca and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping the Left Periphery, the fifth volume in "The Cartography of Syntactic Structures," is entirely devoted to the functional articulation of the so-called complementizer system, the highest part of sentence structure. The papers collected here identify, on the basis of substantial empirical evidence, new atoms of functional structure, which encode specific features that are typically expressed in the left periphery. The volume also submits the richly articulated CP structure to further crosslinguistic checking. The research presented here has led to the identification of new, important restrictions in the relative sequence of elements appearing in the left periphery. With contributions from African languages, Chinese, Hungarian, Romance languages, and Italian dialects, Mapping the Left Periphery will be of interest to syntacticians working on comparative syntax, and more specifically on Romance grammar.

An Introduction to English Sentence Structure

Author : Andrew Radford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-15
ISBN 10 : 9781108839549
Pages : 435 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (395 downloads)

Download An Introduction to English Sentence Structure PDF Full Free by Andrew Radford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A readable introduction to English syntax and syntactic theory, argumentation and description, suitable for students with little prior knowledge.

A Comparative Grammar of Borgomanerese

Author : Christina Tortora
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014
ISBN 10 : 9780199945627
Pages : 421 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (456 downloads)

Download A Comparative Grammar of Borgomanerese PDF Full Free by Christina Tortora and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book treats the morphosyntax of Borgomanerese, a Northern Italian dialect. The rich description of the many unusual features of this dialect, some of which have not been previously reported in the literature, gives rise to a number novel theoretical analyses, advancing our understanding of syntax and syntactic theory.

Variation in Datives

Author : Beatriz Fernandez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013
ISBN 10 : 9780199937363
Pages : 345 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (373 downloads)

Download Variation in Datives PDF Full Free by Beatriz Fernandez and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variation in Datives collects new research on the nature of syntactic micro-variation in datives. The papers in this volume examine different aspects of internal variation in dative marking, such as agreement and case alternations, distribution of adpositional structures and dative case-marking, the different structural positions of dative arguments and their semantic contribution, and patterns of syncretism in the clitic and/or agreement system. Interest in these topics has grown significantly in the past 20 years. Variation in Datives makes a significant contribution to our understanding of language variation, as it adds the micro-comparative perspective to the general discussion and includes 10 new articles on a wide range of European languages, including Greek, Basque, Icelandic, and Serbo-Croatian. Variation in Datives will appeal to scholars and advanced students of syntax, linguistic variation, and especially syntactic micro-variation.

The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar

Author : Bas Aarts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-14
ISBN 10 : 9780191071195
Pages : 752 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (711 downloads)

Download The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar PDF Full Free by Bas Aarts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides an authoritative, critical survey of current research and knowledge in the grammar of the English language. Following an introduction from the editors, the volume's expert contributors explore a range of core topics in English grammar, beginning with issues in grammar writing and methodology. Chapters in part II then examine the various theoretical approaches to grammar, such as cognitive, constructional, and generative approaches, followed by the chapters in part III, which comprehensively cover the different subdomains of grammar, including compounds, phrase structure, clause types, tense and aspect, and information structure. Part IV offers coverage of the relationship between grammar and other fields - lexis, phonology, meaning, and discourse - while the concluding part of the book investigates grammatical change over time, regional variation, and genre and literary variation. The handbook's wide-ranging coverage will appeal to researchers and students of English language and linguistics from undergraduate level upwards.

Elements of Comparative Syntax

Author : Enoch Aboh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-09-11
ISBN 10 : 9781501504037
Pages : 541 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (4 downloads)

Download Elements of Comparative Syntax PDF Full Free by Enoch Aboh and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English

Author : Raffaella Zanuttini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-11
ISBN 10 : 9780199367238
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (672 downloads)

Download Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English PDF Full Free by Raffaella Zanuttini and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By comparing linguistic varieties that are quite similar overall, linguists can often determine where and how grammatical systems differ, and how they change over time. Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English provides a systematic look at minimal differences in the syntax of varieties of English spoken in North America. The book makes available for the first time a range of data on unfamiliar constructions drawn from several regional and social dialects, data whose distribution and grammatical properties shed light on the varieties under examination and on the properties of English syntax more generally. The nine contributions collected in this volume fall under a number of overlapping topics: variation in the expression of negation and modality (the "so don't I" construction in eastern New England, negative auxiliary inversion in declaratives in African-American and southern white English, multiple modals in southern speech, the "needs washed" construction in the Pittsburgh area); pronouns and reflexives (transitive expletives in Appalachia, personal dative constructions in the Southern/Mountain states, long-distance reflexives in the Minnesota Iron Range); and the relation between linguistic variation and language change (the rise of "drama SO" among younger speakers, the difficulty in establishing which phenomena cluster together and should be explained by a single point of parametric variation). These chapters delve into the syntactic analysis of individual phenomena, and the editors' introduction and afterword contextualize the issues and explore their semantic, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic implications.

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