Index
A
- absolute small clause
81–84, 136–137, 150–151
- acquisition
3, 41–43, 64, 91–92, 92n1, 101, 112, 186
- adjacency
9, 142–143, 169–170
- Agree
35–36, 78, 96, 97–102, 114, 123–125, 187
- Agr-projections
34–35, 117
- AgrO
30–33, 61–64, 181, 184–187, 189
;
see also object agreement
- ambiguity
25–26, 40–41, 44, 50, 110
- animacy
39, 55, 58, 127, 142, 165, 176
- aspect
18, 48–49, 77–79, 82–83, 110, 130, 180–188, 191, 194
- auxiliary alternation
19, 27–29, 68–69, 137, 150–151, 156–157, 197
- auxiliary selection
see auxiliary alternation
- Avoid Pragmatic Overload
108–109
B
- Balearic Catalan
68–69, 74, 134
- bare noun
48, 78, 82, 141–142
- bilingualism
41–43
;
see also acquisition
C
- case
9–11, 14n2, 17, 28–29, 30, 32, 48–49, 51, 57, 59–60, 87, 98–102, 117, 121–124, 126–128, 130, 139–140, 160, 176, 180–181, 182–184, 186, 191, 192, 195–197
- case absorption
28, 57, 119n2, 182
- case assignment
28–30, 32, 54, 57, 59–60, 100, 117, 121–124, 180–184
- case filter
28, 57, 126, 195
- causativity
14, 17, 19–20, 69, 73–74, 145, 165–167, 171, 173–174
- chain
13, 14n2, 17–18, 59, 62–65, 78, 100–101, 109, 123–125, 180, 181, 182–184, 186–187
- checking
63–64, 98–101, 102, 111, 118–119, 120, 126–127, 130
- bundle-checking
63–64, 111, 130, 185, 192, 204
- split-checking
63–64, 111, 130, 183, 186, 192, 204
- Chomsky-Borer Conjecture
2, 95
- clitic
3, 10, 14n2, 17–19, 22, 23n6, 25–26, 27, 33, 52, 55–58, 61–63, 69, 106, 110, 119, 126, 163, 166–168, 176–177, 189–190, 195
- clitic doubling
3, 10, 23n6, 33n11, 39, 55–58, 61–65, 76, 79–81, 110–111, 140, 142, 163, 176–177, 179, 185, 189–190, 191–192, 194–195, 200, 204
- clitic doubling parameter
62–63, 111, 192
- cliticization
26, 59, 104–105, 145, 187–188
- CLLD
see clitic left dislocation
- CLRD
see clitic right dislocation
- competing grammars
40–41, 86, 189–190
- contact
- contact-induced language change
41, 44, 45n4
see language contact
- control verbs
20, 69–70, 73, 145, 152–153, 155, 165
- cross-category harmony
78, 196
- cyclic change
6, 88, 105, 109, 114–116, 126, 130, 174–176, 179, 199–200, 203, 204
- cyclicity
see cyclic change
D
- D-linking
see discourse-linking
- dative
17, 29n8, 60, 80, 106, 139–140, 160, 189–190, 195
- dative alternation
29n8, 189–190, 195
- dative clitic doubling
56, 79–80, 189–190, 195
;
see also clitic doubling
-
Decadença
132, 144, 151, 155, 174, 185, 186, 188, 199
- default
1, 44n3, 71, 75, 81, 87, 91, 102, 123n5, 138, 186–187
- definiteness
39, 48–51, 53–54, 55, 83, 88, 107, 110, 140–141, 142, 160–162, 164, 168, 175–176, 180, 187, 193–194, 204–205
- definiteness effects
51, 79, 81–83, 85, 118, 136
- definiteness restriction
see definiteness effects
- degrammaticalization
71, 105
- differential object marking
see DOM
- discourse-linking
1, 39, 50–52, 76
- dislocation
22, 26, 74, 107, 109, 119, 143
- clitic left dislocation
22, 110, 143
- clitic right dislocation
78, 81, 177
- DOM
27, 39, 57–58, 59, 60–61, 80–81, 107, 127, 136, 140, 142, 163, 171n4, 177, 188, 191
- doubling
3, 5, 7, 10, 23n6, 62–63, 80–81, 90, 108–110, 114, 115, 121–122, 124–126, 128, 176–177, 179, 182, 185, 189–192, 195, 197, 199–200
;
see also clitic doubling
E
- economy
2, 6, 10, 32, 35, 40, 88, 96, 103, 108–109, 111, 114–115, 128, 184–186, 192, 197, 200, 203–205
- empty category
28n7, 30, 52–53, 62–63, 92, 118, 125, 188
- EPP
34, 35, 92, 93n2, 100, 102, 118–123
- event participant
see participant
- expletive
23, 44n3, 59, 62, 69, 92, 118, 120
F
- feature economy
92, 96, 109, 114
- feature strength
35, 98, 103, 123
- formal feature
2–3, 5–7, 35, 63–64, 78, 83, 88, 90, 93–97, 98–102, 103, 104, 106–111, 112–114, 115–116, 118–120, 123–128, 130, 181, 182–191, 192–193, 194, 195–197, 200, 202–205
- interpretable formal features
- uninterpretable formal feature
see interpretability
- unvalued formal feature
see valuation
- valued formal feature
see valuation
see interpretability
G
- gerundival small clause
see GerSC
- grammatical relation
1–2, 9–10, 46–47, 48n5, 69, 73, 127, 145–146, 165, 172
- grammaticalization
3, 5–6, 23–24, 28, 56, 88, 90, 103–111, 114–116, 119, 125–128, 129–130, 137, 145, 170, 177, 182, 186, 189–193, 195–196, 202–205
- grammaticalization cline
104–109, 112, 114–116, 126, 130, 144, 189, 194, 197
I
- Input Generalization
92, 96, 196
- interface
2, 34, 42–44, 89–90, 97, 101–102, 109, 112, 122, 187, 193–194, 201–202
- interface effects
3–6, 40, 42–44, 45n4, 46–51, 65, 85–86, 89, 129, 194, 201–203
- Interface Hypothesis
3–4, 40, 42–44, 85–86, 89, 115, 187, 189, 194, 201–202, 203
- interface phenomena
3–6, 44–45, 53, 65, 76, 85–86, 88, 89, 115, 129, 141, 175, 194, 203–204
- interpolation
33n11, 145, 154, 170–171, 173–174
- interpretability
97–98, 100–101, 106–109, 118–120, 122, 123, 126–127, 128, 177, 182–184, 186–187
L
- language contact
41–45, 65, 135
- Latin
23–24, 40, 104, 154, 184
- lexical item
2–3, 5–6, 88, 93–97, 103–104, 106–108, 110–111, 128, 203–205
- lexicon
2–3, 5–7, 93, 95–96, 103, 108, 110, 186, 193
M
- Majorcan Catalan
73n3, 77–78, 129
;
see also Balearic Catalan
- markedness
5, 82, 91, 95, 112n1, 114, 127–128, 196, 199–200, 202
- Merge
2–3, 92–95, 97, 103, 108, 112, 115, 201
- Minimalist Program
2, 34, 86–87, 91, 192
- morphological change
6, 10–11, 86–88, 112–113, 136, 194, 203, 205
- Move
2, 93, 99, 103, 118–119, 192, 200, 201
- movement
2, 9–10, 13, 21, 23n6, 31–33, 35–36, 54–58, 59–60, 61–62, 79, 85, 87, 89, 95, 98–99, 103, 115–116, 118–121, 123, 124n6, 154, 162–163, 183, 186–190, 193–194
see also Move
- cyclic movement
34, 47, 63, 100
- verb movement parameter
3, 10, 56, 111, 119, 163–164, 169, 177, 183, 188, 200
- wh-movement
31–32, 47, 59, 65, 89, 167, 188
N
- normative Italian
13–15, 35, 39, 60, 71, 85, 176, 188
- null subject
92, 94n3, 118–119, 126, 202
see also pro, pro-drop
- null-subject language
92, 118–120, 124, 128, 182
- null-subject parameter
28, 92, 111, 119, 128, 177, 192, 203
O
- object agreement
1, 10–11, 30, 44, 69, 74, 83, 110, 130, 176, 181–182, 192
- object agreement cycle
176, 179
- object shift
54–56, 65, 187
;
see also scrambling
- Old Romance
56, 61, 104, 124
- optionality
1–6, 10, 13–16, 21, 25–27, 29, 32–33, 36, 39–42, 44, 52n7, 53, 61–63, 65, 68–70, 71, 74–75, 76–78, 79–80, 86, 87–88, 89–90, 113, 131, 137, 144, 146, 163, 168–169, 171–176, 179, 189–190, 194, 201–205
P
- parameter
3, 28, 57, 61, 91–92, 95–96, 103, 118–119, 128, 192–193, 196
see also clitic doubling parameter, null-subject parameter, principles, verb movement parameter
- parameter hierarchy
56, 96, 111, 199
- parametric change
2–3, 6, 88, 103, 110–111, 128, 192–193, 203, 205
- parametrization
3, 34n12, 35, 91–92, 95–96, 101, 103, 111, 118–119, 196
- participant
9, 27, 46, 127, 181, 183, 189, 196
- partitive case
48, 77, 139–140, 160, 184, 186
- partitive clitic
18, 27, 60–61, 69, 79n8, 139–140, 145, 150n1, 160, 173–174
- partitivity
50–51, 60–61, 140, 160, 172–174
- passive
13–17, 21–22, 28, 48n5, 59, 68, 74, 82, 119n2, 136–137, 139–140, 149–150, 156–157, 182, 197–199
- Phase Impenetrability Condition
34–35
- phasehood
34–36, 94, 97, 99, 123, 184, 187n2, 198
- Portuguese
1, 13, 17, 24–27, 29, 36, 60–61, 67, 119–120, 137, 175–176, 190
- post-syntactic agreement
97n4, 130, 136, 169
- post-syntactic insertion
107, 169, 190, 193
- post-syntactic operation
97n4, 102, 123, 130, 194
- present participle
83, 136–137, 138–139
;
see also gerund
- principles
41n1, 91–92
;
see also parameter
- pro-drop
see null-subject language
R
- re-parametrization
see parametric change
- reanalysis
20, 23–24, 40, 43, 104, 125
- recoverability
9, 11, 21–22, 25–26, 163
- reflexive
14, 16–18, 19–22, 74, 139–140, 166n3, 197–198
- reflexive clitic si
14, 19
- relative pronoun
17, 69, 73–74, 107, 152, 166
- Renaixença
71–72, 132, 199
- resumption
30, 52–53, 78, 105, 107, 109
- resumptive clitic
22, 26, 52, 109
- Romanian
1, 13, 24–27, 36, 45n4, 57, 60–62, 67, 137, 176, 190
S
- scrambling
54–56, 57–59, 65, 163, 187, 194
- selectional feature
93, 95–96, 97, 112
-
si-constructions
see reflexive clitic si
- small clause
30, 40, 76, 154, 182–184, 198
;
see also absolute small clause
- Spanish
1, 13, 17, 22, 24–27, 29, 36, 48, 55–56, 59, 60–62, 64, 67, 71, 79, 92, 106–107, 113, 119–120, 127, 132, 137, 175–176, 189–191, 195
- Castilian Spanish
see Peninsular Spanish
- Old Spanish
35, 56
;
see also Old Romance
- Peninsular Spanish
56, 64, 71–72, 75, 80, 119, 135
- spec-head relation
10, 29–31, 33, 35, 57, 61, 117, 200
- specificity
5–6, 39–40, 45, 48–54, 55, 57–58, 65, 76, 77–79, 81–83, 88, 89–90, 107, 140–142, 145, 150n1, 160–164, 168–169, 172–174, 175–176, 179–181, 184, 187, 193–194, 202, 204–205
- specificity effect
77–79, 107, 130, 144, 173, 187, 194
;
see also definiteness effect
- spell-out
34–36, 94, 97–100, 102, 118, 123n5, 187
;
see also post-syntactic agreement, post-syntactic insertion
- spoken French
15n4, 16n5, 29, 69, 70, 126, 176, 190
- Standard Catalan
69–69, 71–75, 76
- Standard French
1, 13, 15–16, 35, 39, 60, 85, 188
- strength
35, 98, 103, 123, 127
- strong feature
see strength
- Strong Minimalist Thesis
34, 40
- subcategorization
13, 28, 29n8, 93, 182
- subject agreement
1, 10, 14n2, 16–19, 30–31, 44, 44n3, 73–74, 85, 98–102, 107, 111–112, 117, 119–126, 139–140, 145, 157, 175n5, 180–181, 189, 198, 200–202
- syntactic change
3, 5–6, 10–11, 87–88, 96, 111–113, 115–116, 130, 184–186, 193, 194, 203–205
T
- telicity
18, 48, 58, 77–79, 83, 155
- topic
22, 27, 46–47, 78, 105–106, 126, 171n4
- topicality
21–22, 26–27, 39, 46–47, 50, 55, 65, 78, 125
- topicalization
3, 17, 26, 125, 164, 175
U
- unaccusative verb
14–16, 19, 26, 44n3, 68, 74–75, 81, 137, 139, 149–150, 157, 172, 180
- unaccusativity
26, 28, 29, 35–36, 59, 81, 94n3, 137, 139–140, 150, 172, 180, 195, 197–198
- universal grammar
3, 50, 91–96, 112, 115, 201
V
- valuation
78, 97–102, 123, 126–127, 181n1, 182–184, 186–187
- downward valuation
99, 101–102, 124, 127, 182–184
- upward valuation
97–99, 101–102, 126–127
- variability
1, 3–4, 25, 39, 44, 55, 65, 70–71, 76, 85–86, 144, 175, 189–190, 194
- verbal aspect
18, 24, 48–49, 58, 78–79, 82–83, 104, 110, 129–130, 180–181, 182–188, 191, 195, 198
;
see also inner aspect
W
- weak features
see strength
- wh-element
16, 19, 26, 30–31, 62, 69, 76, 161n2, 164, 166, 168
;
see also wh-movement, relative pronoun
- word order
9–11, 24, 33n11, 42, 44, 47, 54, 55–56, 82–83, 87, 94–95, 115, 118, 119, 122–123, 143, 167, 187–188, 200