1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965674003321

Titolo

Towards a derivational syntax : Survive-minimalism / / edited by Michael T. Putnam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009

ISBN

9786612245350

9781282245358

128224535X

9789027289414

9027289417

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today, , 0166-0829 ; ; v. 144

Altri autori (Persone)

PutnamMichael T

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Generative grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The numeration in Survive-minimalism / Thomas S. Stroik -- Part II. Studies of movement phenomena and structure building in Survive-minimalism: Long-distance agreement without Probe-Goal relations / Omer Preminger -- Musings on the left periphery in West Germanic: German left dislocation and 'survive' / Gema Chocano -- Tense, finiteness and the survive principle: Temporal chains in a crash-proof grammar / Kristen Eide -- When grammars collide: Code-switching in Survive-minimalism / Michael T. Putnam & M. Carmen Parafita Couto -- Using the Survive principle for deriving coordinate (a)symmetries / John R. te Velde -- Part III. Convert and non-movement operations in Survive-minimalism: Syntactic identity in Survive-minimalism: Ellipsis and the derivational identity hypothesis / Gregory M. Kobele -- Evidence for Survive from covert movement / Winfried Lechner -- Language change and survive: Feature economy in the numeration / Elly van Gelderen.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper examines what data from language change can tell us about derivations, and in particular the early part of the derivation where lexical items are selected from the lexicon using the Survive



mechanism. It is well-known that in changes often referred to as grammaticalization the features of lexical items are not only lost but reanalyzed from semantic to grammatical. I argue this is due to principles economizing derivations. Unlike many using Survive, I argue that uninterpretable features are in fact necessary.