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Author | : Ulf Brosziewski |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2011-05-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110953560 |
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This study investigates a model of syntactic derivations that is based on a new concept of dislocation, i.e., of 'movement' phenomena. Derivations are conceived of as a compositional process that constructs larger syntactic units out of smaller ones without any phrase-structure representations, as in categorial grammars. It is demonstrated that a simple extension of this view can account for dislocation without gap features, chains, or structural transformations. Basically, it is assumed that movement 'splits' a syntactic expression into two parts, which form a derivational unit but enter separately into the formation of larger constituents. The study shows that in this approach, if common assumptions about selection and licensing are added, a small and coherent set of axioms suffices to deduce fundamental syntactic generalizations that transformational theories express in terms of X-bar-Theory and various constraints on movement. These generalizations include, for example, equivalents to the C-Command Condition and the Head Movement Constraint, the 'structure-preserving' nature of dislocation, its 'economical' character, and elementary bounding principles.
Author | : John Bowers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108547044 |
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A pioneering new approach to a long-debated topic at the heart of syntax: what are the primitive concepts and operations of syntax? This book argues, appealing in part to the logic of Chomsky's Minimalist Program, that the primitive operations of syntax form relations between words rather than combining words to form constituents. Just three basic relations, definable in terms of inherent selection properties of words, are required in natural language syntax: projection, argument selection, and modification. In the radically simplified account of generative grammar Bowers proposes there are just two interface levels, which interact with our conceptual and sensory systems, and a lexicon from which an infinite number of sentences can be constructed. The theory also provides a natural interpretation of phase theory, enabling a better formulation of many island constraints, as well as providing the basis for a unified approach to ellipsis phenomena.
Author | : Simin Karimi |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2007-02-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027292922 |
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The present collection includes papers that address a wide range of syntactic phenomena. In some, the authors discuss such major syntactic properties as clausal architecture, syntactic labels and derivation, and the nature of features and their role with respect to movement, agreement, and event-related constructions. In addition, several papers offer syntax-based discussions of aspects of acquisition, pedagogy, and neurolinguistics, addressing issues related to case marking, negation, thematic relations, and more. Several papers report on new findings relevant to less commonly investigated languages, and all provide valuable observations related to natural language syntactic properties, many of which are universal in their implications. The authors challenge several aspects of recent syntactic theory, broaden the applicable scope of others, and introduce important and provocative analyses that bear on current issues in linguistics.
Author | : Juan Uriagereka |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 2005-08-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134538472 |
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Derivations draws together some of the most influential work of one of the world's leading syntactitians, Juan Uriagekera. These essays provide several empirical analyses and technical solutions within the Minimalist Program. The book persues a naturalistic take on Minimalism, explicitly connecting a variety of linguistic principles and conditions to arguably analogous laws and circumstances in nature.
Author | : Edwin Williams |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2011-02-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1136824820 |
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Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology presents a theory of the architecture of the human linguistic system that differs from all current theories on four key points. First, the theory rests on a modular separation of word syntax from phrasal syntax, where word syntax corresponds roughly to what has been called derivational morphology. Second, morphosyntax (corresponding to what is traditionally called "inflectional morphology") is the immediate spellout of the syntactic merge operation, and so there is no separate morphosyntactic component. There is no LF (logical form) derived; that is, there is no structure which 'mirrors' semantic interpretation ("LF"); instead, semantics interprets the derivation itself. And fourth, syntactic islands are derived purely as a consequence of the formal mechanics of syntactic derivation, and so there are no bounding nodes, no phases, no subjacency, and in fact no absolute islands. Lacking a morphosyntactic component and an LF representation are positive benefits as these provide temptations for theoretical mischief. The theory is a descendant of the author's "Representation Theory" and so inherits its other benefits as well, including explanations for properties of reconstruction, remnant movement, improper movement, and scrambling/scope interactions, and the different embedding regimes for clauses and DPs. Syntactic islands are added to this list as special cases of improper movement.
Author | : Simin Karimi |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027233653 |
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The present collection includes papers that address a wide range of syntactic phenomena. In some, the authors discuss such major syntactic properties as clausal architecture, syntactic labels and derivation, and the nature of features and their role with respect to movement, agreement, and event-related constructions. In addition, several papers offer syntax-based discussions of aspects of acquisition, pedagogy, and neurolinguistics, addressing issues related to case marking, negation, thematic relations, and more. Several papers report on new findings relevant to less commonly investigated languages, and all provide valuable observations related to natural language syntactic properties, many of which are universal in their implications. The authors challenge several aspects of recent syntactic theory, broaden the applicable scope of others, and introduce important and provocative analyses that bear on current issues in linguistics.
Author | : John S. Bowers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107096758 |
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This book proposes that the fundamental building blocks of syntax are relations between words rather than constituents formed from words.
Author | : Samuel David Epstein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 2006-01-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521811805 |
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A pathbreaking new perspective on derivation, the series of operations by which sentences are formed.
Author | : Samuel Epstein |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0470754699 |
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Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program presents accessible, cutting edge research on an enduring and fundamental question confronting all linguistic inquiry – the respective roles of derivation and representation. Presents accessible, cutting edge research on the respective roles of derivation and representation in syntactic inquiry. Discusses a wide range of phenomena and also includes alternative, representational perspectives. Features papers by M. Brody, C. Collins, S. Epstein, J. Frampton, S. Gutmann, N. Hornstein, R. Kayne, H. Kitahara, J. McCloskey, N. Richards, D. Seely, E. Torrego, J. Uriagereka, C.J.W. Zwart.
Author | : Hans Broekhuis |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2008-08-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110207206 |
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This study shows that Scandinavian object shift and so-called A-scrambling in the continental Germanic languages are the same, and aims at providing an account of the variation that we find with respect to this phenomenon by combining certain aspects of the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory. More specifically, it is claimed that representations created by a simplified version of the computational system of human language CHL are evaluated in an optimality theoretic fashion by taking recourse to a very small set of output constraints.