Symmetric Coordination
Symmetric Coordination

Author: Birgit Wesche

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-10-25

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 311093468X

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Hitherto, the three symmetric coordination types Phrasal Coordination, Right Node Raising, and Gapping have been mostly treated in isolation. This book presents a successful attempt at developing a uniform approach - couched in a transformational framework, but also applicable to other grammatical approaches. But the account not only provides a common frame for coordination. In effect, it does away with the strict distinction between simplex and coordinate structures. The proposed approach - based on a natural extension to the classical X-scheme - is equally valid for both simplex and coordinate structures, and, thus, it presents a significant contribution to grammars of phrasal structures in general.

Symmetry, Shared Labels and Movement in Syntax
Symmetry, Shared Labels and Movement in Syntax

Author: Andreas Blümel

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-03-20

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 3110520184

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What is the trigger for displacement phenomena in natural language syntax? And how can constraints on syntactic movement be derived from interface conditions and so-called Third Factor principles? Within the Minimalist Program a standard answer to the first question is that it is driven by morphosyntactic features. This monograph challenges that view and suggests that the role of features in driving syntactic computation has been overestimated. Instead it proposes that "labeling" -- the detection of a prominent element in sets formed by Merge -- plays a role in driving transformations, and labeling itself is understood to derive from an interplay of efficient computation and the need for a label at the Conceptual-Intentional systems. It explores this idea in four empirical domains: Long-distance dependencies, Criterial Freezing-phenomena, nested dependencies and ATB-movement. The languages considered include English, German and Hebrew.

Derived Coordination
Derived Coordination

Author: Philipp Weisser

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-09-14

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 3110443570

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This monograph explores the different types of clausal relations in the world’s languages. In the recent literature, there have been claims that the strict dichotomy of subordination and coordination cannot be maintained since some constructions seem to be in between these two categories. This study investigates these constructions in detail. The first part is concerned with clause chaining constructions, while the second is concerned with different cases of asymmetric coordination in English. In both parts, it is shown that the different tests to distinguish clausal relations indeed yield different results for the specific constructions. This poses a severe challenge for the established theories of clausal relations. However, as it is argued, recent analyses of coordination provide for the possibility to map a subordinate structure onto a coordinate one by means of regular transformational rules. It is shown that a single movement step derives all the peculiar properties of the phenomena in question. This book thus provides the first comprehensive solution for a long-standing problem in theoretical syntax.

Co-Compounds and Natural Coordination
Co-Compounds and Natural Coordination

Author: Bernhard Wälchli

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-06-11

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0199563322

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This typological survey and analysis of co-compounds considers topics such as the notion of word, markedness, the syntax and semantics of coordination, grammaticalization, and lexical semantics, and draws on the author's original research on a wide range of languages.

Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy
Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy

Author: Isabelle Bril

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 645

ISBN-13: 9027205884

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This collective volume explores clause-linkage strategies in a cross-linguistic perspective with greater emphasis on subordination. Part I presents some theoretical reassessment of syntactic terminologies and distinctive criteria for subordination, as well as typological methods based on sets of variables and statistics allowing cross-linguistic comparability. Part II deals with strategies relating to clause-chaining, conjunctive conjugations, converbial constructions, masdars. Part III centers on the interaction between the syntax, pragmatics, and semantics of clause-linking and subordination, in relation to informa-tional structure, to referential hierarchy, and correlative constructions. Part IV presents insights in the clause-linking and subordinating functions of some T.A.M. markers, verbal inflectional morphology and conjugation systems, which may also interact with informa-tional hierarchy, via the backgrounding effects and lack of illocutionary force of some aspect and mood forms. The volume is of particular interest to linguists and typologists working on clause-linkage systems and on the interface between syntax, pragmatics, and semantics.

Recursion across Domains
Recursion across Domains

Author: Luiz Amaral

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-06-07

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1108314163

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Recursion and self-embedding are at the heart of our ability to formulate our thoughts, articulate our imagination and share with other human beings. Nonetheless, controversy exists over the extent to which recursion is shared across all domains of syntax. A collection of 18 studies are presented here on the central linguistic property of recursion, examining a range of constructions in over a dozen languages representing great areal, typological and genetic diversity and spanning wide latitudes. The volume expands the topic to include prepositional phrases, possessives, adjectives, and relative clauses - our many vehicles to express creative thought - to provide a critical perspective on claims about how recursion connects to broader aspects of the mind. Parallel explorations across language families, literate and non-literate societies, children and adults are investigated and constitutes a new step in the generative tradition by simultaneously focusing on formal theory, acquisition and experimentation, and ecologically-sensitive fieldwork, and initiates a new community where these diverse experts collaborate.

The Syntactic Structures of Korean
The Syntactic Structures of Korean

Author: Jong-Bok Kim

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-07-28

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1107103754

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Jong-Bok Kim offers a remarkably broad yet in-depth overview of popular contemporary topics in Korean syntax and semantics.

Ellipsis in Conjunction
Ellipsis in Conjunction

Author: Kerstin Schwabe

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-06-03

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 3110952157

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The papers of the volume mirror the ongoing debate on approaches towards two related topics: conjunction and ellipsis. The major issues are the syntactic relationship between the conjuncts, the syntactic category of the conjunction words, the size of the conjuncts, the syntactic and semantic status of the null elements, and semantic and information structural restrictions. A wide range of facts from various languages are explored in relation to phrasal coordination, Gapping, Pseudogapping, VP-ellipsis, and Sluicing.

The Topology of the 2x2 Games
The Topology of the 2x2 Games

Author: David Robinson

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780415336093

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2x2 games provide the very basis of game theory and this book constitutes something approaching a 'periodic table' of the most common games - the prisoner's dilemma, coordination games, chicken and the battle of the sexes among them.

Studies in Perception and Action IX
Studies in Perception and Action IX

Author: Sarah Cummins-Sebree

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2010-10-18

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1136872345

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The edited book series Studies in Perception and Action contains a collection of research presented at the International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA). The Studies series has appeared in conjunction with the biennial ICPA since 1991. ICPA provides a forum for presenting new data, theory, and methodological developments relevant to the ecological approach to perceptionaction. This volume is the 9th in the Studies in Perception and Action series, and it contains research presented at the 14th ICPA meeting in the summer of 2007. The sixty papers presented in this volume represent the latest developments in ecological psychology research from four continents. In many instances, the contributions to Studies volumes reflect the first appearance of new ideas in a scientific venue. As a result, the Studies volumes contain the most recent and cutting edge research in perception and action. This volume will appeal to individuals who follow the research literature in ecological psychology, as well as those interested in perception, perceptual development, human movement dynamics, and social processes.