The Emergence of Order in Syntax
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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.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 119] 2008. viii, 211 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Prologue | pp. 1–8
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Part I. Elements of syntax
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Chapter 1: Elements of syntax | pp. 11–27
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Part II. Patterns
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Chapter 2. The relationship between complementizers and inflectional heads | pp. 31–55
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Chapter 3. Discontinuous syntactic patterns | pp. 57–93
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Chapter 4. Analytic syntactic patterns | pp. 95–114
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Chapter 5. Syncretic syntactic patterns | pp. 115–185
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Part III. Conclusion
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Chapter 6. On the emergence of order in syntax | pp. 189–193
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Subject index | pp. 208–210
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Language index | p. 211
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General