Of Grammar, Words, and Verses
In honor of Carlos Piera
Editor
This book offers new work by some major figures in the field of linguistics, addressing old debates from the perspective of current explanatory grammatical theory. These include paradigmatic relations among words, and agreeing adjectives and their grammatical source. Covering a broad range of empirical domains, the contributors of this volume examine the role of Economy in syntax and in syntactic interfaces with phonology and semantics, and their implications for processing. The evidence is taken from a great variety of languages, including Arabic dialects, Basque, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish. Two chapters on metrics complete honoring Carlos Piera’s longstanding scholarship in linguistic theory within Spain and abroad.
[Language Faculty and Beyond, 8] 2012. xi, 272 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments | p. vii
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Contributors | pp. ix–xi
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IntroductionEsther Torrego | pp. 1–4
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Chapter 1. Structure at the bottomHoward Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka | pp. 5–18
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Chapter 2. The absent, the silent, and the audible: Some thoughts on the morphology of silent verbsHenk van Riemsdijk | pp. 19–39
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Chapter 3. Lexical change and the architecture of the LexiconJamal Ouhalla | pp. 41–66
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Chapter 4. Dylan Thomas’s metersNigel Fabb and Morris Halle | pp. 67–86
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Chapter 5. The metrical system of William Carlos WilliamsJohn Bowers | pp. 87–114
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Chapter 6. Linearization preferences given “Free Word Order”; subject preferences given ergativity: A look at BasqueItziar Laka and Kepa Erdozia | pp. 115–142
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Chapter 7. On the fronting of non-contrastive topics in GermanicGema Chocano | pp. 143–169
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Chapter 8. Blackjack! 21 arguments that agreeing adjectives are derived nominalsJoseph E. Emonds | pp. 171–200
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Chapter 9. Connectivity and definiteness in an English equative constructionRandall Hendrick | pp. 201–216
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Chapter 10. On certain distributional gaps of Spanish possessives: A “Phrasal Spell-Out” accountLuis Sáez | pp. 217–236
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Chapter 11. Variability in the case patterns of causative formation in Romance and its implicationsEsther Torrego | pp. 237–267
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Index | pp. 269–272
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General