Deriving Syntactic Relations

Author : John Bowers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107096758
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deriving Syntactic Relations written by John Bowers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes that the fundamental building blocks of syntax are relations between words rather than constituents formed from words.

Author : Maia Duguine
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027255415
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations written by Maia Duguine and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of this collection is argument structure. The fourteen chapters in this book are divided into four parts: Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Event Structure; A Cartographic View on Argument Structure; Syntactic Heads Involved in Argument Structure; and Argument Structure in Language Acquisition. Rigorous theoretical analyses are combined with empirical work on specific aspects of argument structure. The book brings together authors working in different linguistic fields (semantics, syntax, and language acquisition), who explore new findings as well as more established data, but then from new theoretical perspectives. The contributions propose cartographic views of argument structure, as opposed to minimalistic proposals of a binary template model for argument structure, in order to optimally account for various syntactic and semantic facts, as well as data derived from wider cross-linguistic perspectives. "Argument structure plays a central role in the articulation of syntax. Yet whether this contribution is primordial or derivative, derivational or representational, minimalist or cartographic, is entirely up for grabs. This is what makes a book like the present one equivalent to a murder thriller: one cannot finish one chapter without wanting to read the next. While the solution to the underlying mystery remains as open as it ever was, the clues offered here seem just impossible to ignore."

Author : Samuel David Epstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195354877
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations written by Samuel David Epstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a Minimalist analysis of syntactic relations. The authors argue that certain fundamental relations such as c-command, dominance, and checking relations can be explained within a derivational approach to structure-building couched within a new and controversial level-free model of the syntactic component of the human language faculty.

Author : Peter Hugoe Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521845769
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syntactic Relations written by Peter Hugoe Matthews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of two fundamental assumptions: do phrases really form hierarchical 'trees' and have 'heads'?

Author : Maia Duguine
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027288135
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations written by Maia Duguine and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of this collection is argument structure. The fourteen chapters in this book are divided into four parts: Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Event Structure; A Cartographic View on Argument Structure; Syntactic Heads Involved in Argument Structure; and Argument Structure in Language Acquisition. Rigorous theoretical analyses are combined with empirical work on specific aspects of argument structure. The book brings together authors working in different linguistic fields (semantics, syntax, and language acquisition), who explore new findings as well as more established data, but then from new theoretical perspectives. The contributions propose cartographic views of argument structure, as opposed to minimalistic proposals of a binary template model for argument structure, in order to optimally account for various syntactic and semantic facts, as well as data derived from wider cross-linguistic perspectives.

Author : Glyn Hicks
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027255229
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations written by Glyn Hicks and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations resolves a conspicuous problem for Minimalist theory, the apparently representational nature of the binding conditions. Hicks adduces a broad variety of evidence against the binding conditions applying at LF and builds upon the insights of recent proposals by Hornstein, Kayne, and Reuland by reducing them to the core narrow-syntactic operations (specifically, Agree and Merge). Several novel and independently motivated claims about syntactic features and phases are made, not only explaining the previously stipulated roles played by c-command, reference, and locality, but furnishing the dervational binding theory with sufficient flexibility to capture some long-problematic empirical phenomena: These include connectivity effects, 'picture-noun' reflexives in English, and anaphor/pronoun non-complementarity. Specific proposals are also made for extending the derivational approach to accommodate structured crosslinguistic variation in binding, with thorough expositions and analyses of the Dutch, Norwegian, and Icelandic pronominal systems.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bare Phrase Structure written by Noam Chomsky and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Glyn Hicks
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290008
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations written by Glyn Hicks and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations resolves a conspicuous problem for Minimalist theory, the apparently representational nature of the binding conditions. Hicks adduces a broad variety of evidence against the binding conditions applying at LF and builds upon the insights of recent proposals by Hornstein, Kayne, and Reuland by reducing them to the core narrow-syntactic operations (specifically, Agree and Merge). Several novel and independently motivated claims about syntactic features and phases are made, not only explaining the previously stipulated roles played by c-command, reference, and locality, but furnishing the dervational binding theory with sufficient flexibility to capture some long-problematic empirical phenomena: These include connectivity effects, ‘picture-noun’ reflexives in English, and anaphor/pronoun non-complementarity. Specific proposals are also made for extending the derivational approach to accommodate structured crosslinguistic variation in binding, with thorough expositions and analyses of the Dutch, Norwegian, and Icelandic pronominal systems.

Author : John R. te Velde
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027293724
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deriving Coordinate Symmetries written by John R. te Velde and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph proposes a minimalist, phase-based approach to the derivation of coordinate structures, utilizing the operations Copy and Match to account for both the symmetries and asymmetries of coordination. Data are drawn primarily from English, German and Dutch. The basic assumptions are that all coordinate structures are symmetric to some degree (in contrast to parasitic gap and many verb phrase ellipsis constructions), and these symmetries, especially with ellipsis, allow syntactic derivations to utilize Copy and Match in interface with active memory for economizing with gaps and assuring clarity of interpretation. With derivations operating at the feature level, troublesome properties of coordinate structures such as cross-categorial and non-constituent coordination, violations of the Coordinate Structure Constraint, as well as coordinate ellipsis (Gapping, RNR, Left-Edge Ellipsis) are accounted for without separate mechanisms or conditions applicable only to coordinate structures. The proposal provides support for central assumptions about the structure of West Germanic.

Author : Einar Freyr Sigurðsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1012 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deriving Case, Agreement and Voice Phenomena in Syntax written by Einar Freyr Sigurðsson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation places case, agreement and Voice phenomena in syntax. It argues that the derivation is driven by so-called derivational features, that is, structure-building features (Merge) and probe features (Agree) (Heck and Müller 2007 and Müller 2010; see also Chomsky 2000, 2001). Both types are essential in deriving case and agreement in the clausal domain and DP-internally. Feature values assigned by Merge take effect immediately whereas feature values assigned via Agree take effect at Spell-Out. This has the effect that Merge can overwrite Agree relations. I argue for a clear boundary between the syntactic and the morphological component regarding how case is assigned and agreement derived, placing Agree, Merge and case assignment in syntax whereas a translation of case assignment into morphological case and agreement takes place in the morphological component. Case morphology is the result of a three-step process: (i) A syntactic relationship with a functional head (e.g., Agree with Voice); (ii) a morphological translation of that relationship into a case feature (e.g., from syntactic STR to morphological ACC); and (iii) a morphological realization of that feature at Vocabulary Insertion. I argue that there are three types of syntactic case: structural, inherent and quirky case. Structural nominative case is either the result of structural case assignment or the realization of unassigned case. If a DP has not been assigned case by Spell-Out, its syntactic case is determined as STR. Structural and quirky case is often assigned by Voice via Agree but inherent case is assigned by Appl via Merge. Furthermore, the dissertation studies the interaction of Voice, case and implicit arguments. It provides new analyses for various constructions in Icelandic where the dichotomy between active and passive breaks down. As I demonstrate, passive and active are labels for a collection of properties of VoiceP, where these properties may vary partially independently, yielding constructions that do not fit the traditional labels. I refine and improve our understanding of the nature of implicit arguments and how they interact with different Voice types. Following Landau's (2010) distinction between Weak and Strong Implicit Arguments (WIA and SIA), I extend Legate's (2014) analysis of the New Impersonal Construction to other constructions. I propose that WIAs are not always projected but when they are, they bear case. Furthermore, I propose that weak implicit arguments have an overtly realized counterpart, which I call Weak Explicit Arguments.