Bare Phrase Structure
Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13:
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Syntax
Author: Andrew Carnie
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780631225430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, by one of Spain's most eminent philosophers, provides a lively and very accessible introduction to philosophy. Written for those who have no prior knowledge of the field, it reveals how the central problems of philosophy remain high"
(Re)labeling
Author: Carlo Cecchetto
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2015-01-30
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0262327236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new theory of labeling that sheds light on such syntactic phenomena as relativization, successive cyclicity, island phenomena, and Minimality effects. When two categories merge and a new syntactic object is formed, what determines which of the two merged categories transmits its properties one level up—or, in current terminology, which of the two initial categories labels the new object? In (Re)labeling, Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati take this question as the starting point of an investigation that sheds light on longstanding puzzles in the theory of syntax in the generative tradition. They put forward a simple idea: that words are special because they can provide a label for free when they merge with some other category. Crucially, this happens even when a word merges with another category as a result of syntactic movement. This means that a word has a “relabeling” power in that the structure resulting from its movement can have a different label from the one that the structure previously had. Cecchetto and Donati argue that relabeling cases triggered by the movement of a word are pervasive in the syntax of natural languages and that their identification sheds light on such phenomena as relativization, explaining for free why relatives clauses have a nominal distribution, successive cyclicity, island effects, root phenomena, and Minimality effects.
Merge in the Mind-Brain
Author: Naoki Fukui
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-04-21
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1315442795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Original Publication Details -- Introduction -- Part I Merge in the Mind -- 1 Merge and Bare Phrase Structure -- 2 Merge and (A)symmetry -- 3 Generalized Search and Cyclic Derivation by Phase: A Preliminary Study -- 4 Merge, Labeling, and Projection -- 5 A Note on Weak vs. Strong Generation in Human Language -- 6 0-Search and 0-Merge -- Part II Merge in the Brain -- 7 The Cortical Dynamics in Building Syntactic Structures of Sentences: An MEG Study in a Minimal-Pair Paradigm -- 8 Syntactic Computation in the Human Brain: The Degree of Merger as a Key Factor -- 9 Computational Principles of Syntax in the Regions Specialized for Language: Integrating Theoretical Linguistics and Functional Neuroimaging -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index
Some Reflections on Bare Phrase Structure and Projection of Targets
Author: Martin Atkinson
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 19
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
Author: Marcel den Dikken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-07-25
Total Pages: 1412
ISBN-13: 1107354587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSyntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.
Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program
Author: Gert Webelhuth
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1995-05-03
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780631180616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides an authoritative overview of Government and Binding Theory, and -- in crucial new papers by Noam Chomsky and Alec Marantz -- of the subsequent development of the Minimalist Program.
New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond
Author: Johannes Kabatek
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2013-11-15
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9027271259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination. Combining insights from different theoretical backgrounds and extending the empirical coverage of bare noun phenomena, the ten contributions provide new perspectives on long-standing but still actively debated problems as well as investigations into previously ignored issues. The volume focuses on the wide range of bare noun phenomena in Romance languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Brazilian and European Portuguese, Italian and French; but also widens its inherently comparative perspective to languages such as Bulgarian and Modern Hebrew. The authors discuss the importance of cross-linguistic patterns in the modeling of the syntax and semantics of noun phrases and of common noun denotations, the role of information structure as well as that of discourse traditions and coordination.
Varieties of Raising and the Feature-based Bare Phrase Structure Theory
Author: Hiroyuki Ura
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCase, Referentiality and Phrase Structure
Author: Balk?z Öztürk
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2005-04-26
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9027294453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book proposes that the two “independent” conditions on argumenthood, namely, case and referentiality, are strongly correlated and have to be associated with each other in syntax as syntactic features. It shows that languages exhibit variation in the way this association is implemented in their syntax, which presents an explanation for the differences observed in their phrase structure in terms of (non-)configurationality. Thus, this book not only presents an innovative overarching theory for case and referentiality, but also aims to bring a new look at the issues of (non-)configurationality. It specifically argues for parameterization of functional categories associated with case and referentiality, which has certain implications not only for the acquisition but also for the diachronic development of functional categories. Providing rich comparative data from typologically different languages such as Turkish, Chinese, Hungarian, English and Japanese, this book is of particular interest to typologists as well.
