Cartography and Explanatory Adequacy
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-886793-7 (ISBN)
This book contributes to the ongoing empirical, conceptual, and meta-theoretical debates regarding the merits and drawbacks of the cartographic program in linguistic theory. Although cartography has its roots in the study of the left periphery, its empirical scope has expanded significantly over the years and now covers a wide range of domains such as argument structure, modification, and constituent order. The chapters in this volume offer a critical examination of the cartographic assumption that there is a rich array of functional projections whose hierarchical order is fixed and determined by Universal Grammar. They discuss the nature of these cartographic hierarchies and their relation to the central theoretical goal of explanatory adequacy: are functional hierarchies an irreducible property of Universal Grammar (hence constituting part of the "residue" beyond the scope of principled explanation), or are they emergent, deriving from independent principles that do not require a further enrichment of Universal Grammar?
Ángel J. Gallego is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish Philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a member of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language and their Applications (IALaA). He works in the areas of theoretical syntax and linguistic variation, with a focus on what syntactic phenomena such as locality, phase structure, and transformations can reveal about the Language Faculty. He is the author of The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects (OUP, 2019) and co-editor, with Roberta D'Alessandro and Irene Franco, of The Verbal Domain (OUP, 2017). Dennis Ott is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa, having previously held positions at the University of Groningen, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of the Basque Country. His research explores the formal principles underlying the syntax of natural languages, and how the mental grammar encoding these principles interfaces with systems of interpretation and articulation. He is the co-editor, with Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, of Parameters of Predicate Fronting (OUP, 2021).
1: Ángel J. Gallego and Dennis Ott: Introduction
2: Julia Bacskai-Atkari: Complementizers, word order, and a non-cartographic approach to the CP domain
3: Ignacio Bosque: A quasi-cartographic approach to Spanish auxiliaries
4: Guglielmo Cinque: Externalization and meaningless movement
5: Thomas Ernst: Semantic principles of adverbial distribution
6: Ricardo Etxepare: Wh-distributives in Basque
7: Aritz Irurtzun: The syntactic nature of focus
8: Manuel Leonetti and Victoria Escandell-Vidal: Focus structure and assertion in relative clauses: Evidence from Spanish
9: Luigi Rizzi: On the status of criterial markers in the left periphery of the clause
10: Vieri Samek-Lodovici: Focalization in-situ vs focus projection: Focused topics, focused questions, focused heads, and other challenges
11: Volker Struckmeier: Cartographic 'explanations' need explanations themselves: Relations to the rescue
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2024 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics ; 85 |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 632 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-886793-X / 019886793X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-886793-7 / 9780198867937 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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