The emergence of order in syntax / / Jordi Fortuny

• Autore: Fortuny
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Order (Grammar)
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: The Emergence of Order in Syntax -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- PART I. ELEMENTS OF SYNTAX -- 1. ELEMENTS OF SYNTAX -- 1.1 Instructions -- 1.2 Merge: nests -- 1.3 Merge: internal and external -- 1.4 Onset -- PART II. PATTERNS -- 2. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMPLEMENTIZERS AND INFLECTIONAL CATEGORIES -- 2.1 The C-Infl link -- 2.2 Conclusion -- 3. DISCONTINUOUS SYNTACTIC PATTERNS -- 3.1 The source of the C-Infl link -- 3.2 Probe-goal relations in a phase -- 3.3 Revising the Generalized Feature Inheritance Theory -- 3.4 Discontinuities -- 3.5 Subextraction: (II): relativized opacity for probe-goal relations -- 4. ANALYTIC SYNTACTIC PATTERNS -- 4.1 On cartographies -- 4.2 The nature of ordering restrictions -- 4.3 Toward a principled account for some order restrictions -- 4.4 The Full Interpretation Principle -- 4.5 Cartographic effects -- 5. SYNCRETIC SYNTACTIC PATTERN -- 5.1 On structural minimization -- 5.2 Why and where V moves -- 5.3 A side-effect of V-to-T movement -- 5.4 Other conundrums to be solved on the basis of structural minimization -- 5.5 Contraction -- 5.6 Conclusion -- PART III. CONCLUSION -- 6. ON THE EMERGENCE OF ORDER IN SYNTAX -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- LANGUAGE INDEX -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
• Sommario/riassunto: The syntactic component of the faculty of language is argued to be a rewiring of a few independently motivated components: features, the conjunction of a successive operation of union-formation ('Merge') and of derivational records ('nests'), and principles of analysis. Since nests linearize terminals (Kuratowski 1921), Kayne's (1994) LCA becomes dispensable. The study of how features are ordered in discontinuous, analytic and syncretic patterns, governed by the Full Interpretation Condition and the Maximize Matching Effects Principle, provides a simple account for several syntactic phenomena, like the C-Infl connection, certain cartographic observations due to Cinque (1999), the A'-status of preverbal subjects in Null Subject Languages (Solà 1992), the alleviation of wh-island effects in English when the embedded wh-phrase is a subject (Chomsky 1986) and the dynamic V2 patterns in double agreement dialects observed by Zwart (1993). The possibility that Comp-trace effects derive from the contraction of the C-Infl discontinuity is explored and subject islands and wh-islands are derived from the Relativized Opacity Principle, an alternative to Chomsky's PIC.
• Titolo autorizzato: The emergence of order in syntax
• ISBN: 9786612152207; 9781282152205; 1282152203; 9789027291547; 9027291543
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910970496303321
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