Comparisons and contrasts / / Richard S. Kayne

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910967683703321
• Autore: Kayne Richard S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 9780199780174; 019978017X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xvi, 272 p
• Collana: Oxford studies in comparative syntax
• Disciplina: 941.004
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- 1. Some Preliminary Comparative Remarks on French and Italian Definite Articles -- 1.1. Interrogatives -- 1.2. Superlatives -- 1.3. Greek -- 1.4. French postnominal superlatives -- 1.5. French superlatives vs. Italian superlatives -- 1.6. French vs. Italian bare arguments -- 1.7. Back to lequel and quale -- 1.8. A digression to English possessors -- 1.9. Conclusion -- 2. Several, Few, and Many -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Few and many -- 2.3. UG and the syntax/semantics mapping -- 2.4. every and a and NUMBER -- 2.5. A small(little)/large(big) number -- 2.6. Several vs. many and few -- 2.7. Several and numerals -- 2.8. More on every -- 2.9. Several vs. numerals (and a proposal for ordinals) -- 2.10. Possible analyses of several -- 2.11. A more likely analysis for several -- 2.12. Toward spelling out the analysis -- 2.13. Conclusion -- 3. A Note on the Syntax of Numerical Bases -- 3.1. Introduction (English) -- 3.2. French -- 3.3. English and French -- 3.4. Similarities between approximatives and multiplicative numerals -- 3.5. Romanian -- 3.6. UG and numerical bases -- 3.7. Prepositions -- 3.8. More on NSFX -- 3.9. Constituent structure -- 3.10. Why is NSFX needed? -- 3.11. Conclusion -- 4. On Parameters and on Principles of Pronunciation -- 4.1. On parameters -- 4.2. Intralanguage parametric variation -- 4.3. Back to lexical vs. functional -- 4.4. More on enough -- 4.5. On principles of pronunciation -- 4.6. Further types of non-pronunciation -- 4.7. Back ; again to enough -- 4.8. Conclusion -- 5. A Short Note on where vs. place -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. where vs. place -- 5.3. R-pronouns and licensing -- 5.4. place vs. place -- 6. Expletives, Datives, and the Tension between Morphology and Syntax -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. North Italian ghe -- 6.3. There and ghe as deictics -- 6.4. Silent DATCL.; 6.5. Expletive there and expletive ghe as deictics -- 6.6. Deictics, demonstratives, and indefinites -- 6.7. The definiteness effect -- 6.8. Agreement -- 6.9. Why is there the expletive? -- 6.10. Expletive ghe and ci in possessive sentences -- 6.11. Comparative syntax of possessives and existentials -- 6.12. Other languages and no languages -- 6.13. Existentials and causers -- 6.14. Limitations on deictic there as expletive -- 6.15. Datives -- 6.16. Conclusion -- 7. Some Silent First-Person Plurals -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Silent nous -- 7.3. NOUS/nous and agreement -- 7.4. Italian si -- 7.5. The privileged status of first-person plural -- 7.6. Reflexive si/se and first-person plural -- 7.7. The extra object clitic in reflexive sentences -- 7.8. Silent se/si -- 7.9. The role of se/si/sa -- 7.10. Third-person reflexive sentences -- 7.11. Italian ci and the question of syncretism -- 7.12. Conclusion -- 8. A Note on Auxiliary Alternations and Silent Causation -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. The class of verbs in question -- 8.3. Beyond auxiliary selection -- 8.4. A proposal -- 8.5. More on past participle agreement -- 8.6. Impersonals, leading to a further revised proposal -- 8.7. The beginning of an analysis -- 8.8. An aside on past participles -- 8.9. Past participles and v. -- 8.10. Back to auxiliaries and past participle agreement -- 8.11. Other Romance languages -- 8.12. Past participle agreement in full causatives (and anticausatives) -- 8.13. Other unaccusatives -- 8.14. Conclusion -- 9. Antisymmetry and the Lexicon -- 9.1. Recursion -- 9.2. Antisymmetry -- 9.3. Antisymmetry and antioptionality -- 9.4. Antisymmetry of projection -- 9.5. The closed class vs. open class distinction -- 9.6. Nouns and verbs -- 9.7. Other categories -- 9.8. Lexical specialization -- 9.9. Nouns do not project.; 9.10. A consequence of nouns not projecting: the fact that . . . -- 9.11. Derived nominals -- 9.12. Restrictions on derived nominals -- 9.13. More on the absence of complements to nouns -- 9.14. More on possessives -- 9.15. Sentential complements -- 9.16. Conclusion -- 10. Why Isn't This a Complementizer? -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Diachrony -- 10.3. Sentential that and relative that -- 10.4. Relative that is less different from other relative pronouns that it seems: Possessors -- 10.5. The preposition restriction -- 10.6. Sensitivity of that to +/-human -- 10.7. The impossibility of agreement with English relative that -- 10.8. The impossibility of agreement with Romance relative che/que -- 10.9. More on non-agreement with that -- 10.10. Non-agreement with French demonstrative ce -- 10.11. The absence of relative this -- 10.12. The fact that/*this . . . -- 10.13. Factives -- 10.14. Non-factives -- 10.15. Relatives with resumptive pronouns -- 10.16. Which vs. that -- 10.17. Determiners that cannot serve as relative pronouns -- 10.18. Doubly-filled comps -- 10.19. Conclusion -- 11. Toward an Analysis of French Hyper-Complex Inversion (with Jean-Yves Pollock) -- 11.1. HCI -- 11.2. HCI as clitic doubling -- 11.3. Person and -l- -- 11.4. Voilà -- 11.5. An SCL restriction -- 11.6. The -t- morpheme -- 11.7. Remnant movement and -t- -- 11.8. Missing persons -- 11.9. The demonstrative SCL ce -- 11.10. A link to gerunds and to 'stylistic inversion' -- 11.11. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: A collection of 11 of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical ; syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic differences among languages to probe the properties of the human language faculty.