Alternatives to cartography [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781169103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-71443-0; 9786612714436; 3-11-021712-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Collana: Studies in generative grammar ; ; 100
• Altri autori (Persone): CraenenbroeckJeroen van <1976->
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Word order; Generative grammar; Phrase structure grammar
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of contents -- Alternatives to cartography: an introduction / van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen -- A syntactic typology of topic, focus and contrast / Neeleman, Ad / Titov, Elena / van de Koot, Hans / Vermeulen, Reiko -- Focus, topic, and word order: A compositional view / Wagner, Michael -- A focus-binding conspiracy. Left-to-right merge, scrambling and binary structure in European Portuguese / Costa, João -- Phases and variation: Exploring the second factor of the faculty of language / Gallego, Ángel J. -- Varieties of INFL: TENSE, LOCATION, and PERSON / Ritter, Elizabeth / Wiltschko, Martina -- CAT meets GO: Auxiliary inversion in German verb clusters / Bader, Markus / Schmid, Tanja -- A solution to the conceptual problem of cartography / Bouchard, Denis -- Adjective placement and linearization / Giurgea, Ion -- Some implications of improper movement for cartography / Abels, Klaus -- There is no alternative to cartography / Williams, Edwin -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: In the 1980's generative grammar recognized that functional material is able to project syntactic structure in conformity with the X-bar-format. This insight soon led to a considerable increase in the inventory of functional projections. The basic idea behind this line of theorizing, ; which goes by the name of cartography, is that sentence structure can be represented as a template of linearly ordered positions, each with their own syntactic and semantic import. In recent years, however, a number of problems have been raised for this approach. For example, certain combinations of syntactic elements cannot be linearly ordered. In light of such problems a number of alternative accounts have been explored. Some of them propose a new (often interface-related) trigger for movement, while others seek alternative means of accounting for various word order patterns. These alternatives to cartography do not form a homogeneous group, nor has there thus far been a forum where these ideas could be compared and confronted with one another. This volume fills that gap. It offers a varied and in-depth view on the position taken by a substantial number of researchers in the field today on what is presumably one of the most hotly debated and controversial issues in present-day generative grammar.