Phases of Interpretation (eBook)

Mara Frascarelli (Herausgeber)

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2006
398 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-019772-3 (ISBN)

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This book investigates the concept of phase, aiming at a structural definition of the domains that are assumed as the syntactic loci for interface interpretation: vP, CP and DP. The 16 contributions address crucial issues of syntactic research within the Minimalist Program, namely A) How is the set of minimally necessary syntactic operations to be characterised, B) How is the set of minimally necessary functional heads to be characterised that determine the built-up and the interpretation of syntactic objects and C) How do these syntactic operations and objects interact with principles and requirements that are thought to hold at the two interfaces. The investigation focuses on a variety of languages, combining the analysis of empirical data with the theoretical insights of the last years.

Mara Frascarelli, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.

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Mara Frascarelli, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.

Inhalt

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Phases and interpretation 11
Grafts follow from merge 27
An interpretive effect of head movement 55
When we do that and when we don’t: A contrastive analysis of VP ellipsis and VP anaphora 81
‘HAVE’ = ‘BE’ + PREP(osition): New evidence for the preposition incorporation analysis of clausal possession 117
Northern Norwegian degree questions and the syntax of measurement 143
Parallels in clausal and nominal periphery 173
The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically 197
Number agreement and event pluralization: A case study 223
The Phase Condition and cyclic Spell-out: Evidence from VP-topicalization 247
Parallel phases: a study on the high and low left periphery of Old Italian 271
Obviation in subjunctive argument clauses and the first-personal interpretation 305
Who is lui? Reference of Italian overt and covert subject pronouns 331
Satisfying the Subject Criterion by a non subject: English Locative Inversion and Heavy NP Shift 351
Informational focus in Sicilian and the left periphery 373
Backmatter 397

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"Phases of interpretation raises the investigation of a wide range of important issues in syntax to a higher level, für which this valuable volume deserves praise."
Marcel den Dikken in: Linguistics 2007

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2008
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Generative Syntax • Minimalistisches Programm • Minimalistische Syntax • Minimalist Program • Minimalist Syntax • Syntax • Syntax; generative syntax; minimalist program
• ISBN-10: 3-11-019772-3 / 3110197723
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-019772-3 / 9783110197723