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Aspects of Grammatical Architecture
Routledge Leading Linguists Series
Author: Rouveret Alain
Language: EnglishSubject for Aspects of Grammatical Architecture:
Keywords
Uninterpretable Feature; European Portuguese; generative grammar; vP Phase; minimalist perspective; Narrow Syntax; natural languages; Probe Goal Relations; phase structure; Clitic Placement; clitics; Inflectional Domain; Priority Principle; Bare Output Conditions; Single Licensing Condition; Main Verb; grammatical architecture; Phase Head; VP ellipsis; Resumptive Pronouns; Alain Rouveret; Locative Clitic; Lea Nash; Accusative Clitics; Tense Morpheme; Spec Head Agreement; Proxy Categories; Verb Initial Languages; Minimal Link Condition; Existential Constructions; Stage Level Predicates; Dative Clitics; Copular Sentences; Matrix Declaratives; Verb Bod; Individual Level Predicates
Publication date: 08-2020
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 01-2018
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective. The phenomena that are brought to bear on the architectural issue come from a range of languages, among them French, European Portuguese, Welsh, German and English, and include clitic placement, expletive pronouns, resumption, causative structures, copulative and existential constructions, VP ellipsis, as well as the distinction between the SVO, VSO and V2 linguistic types. This book sheds a new light on the division of labor between components and paves the way for further research on grammatical architecture.
1. Introduction. Part I: Phrasal and Clausal Architecture. 2. Functional categories and agreement. 3. Proxy categories in phrase structure theory (with Lea Nash). 4. Bod in thepresent tense and in other tenses.Part II: Clitics and Phrase Structure. 5. Clitic placement and the Wackernagel position in European Portuguese. 6. Cliticization as Unselective Attract (with Lea Nash). Part III: The Architecture of Derivations. 7. VP ellipsis, phases and the syntax of morphology. 8. Hallmarks of Portuguese syntax. 9. Computational and semantic aspects of resumption. Part IV. The Architecture of Grammar. 10. Intervention or phasal locality? Two ways of being local in French causative constructions. 11. The expletive puzzle and the EPP.
Alain Rouveret is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics at the Université Paris-Diderot in Paris, France. He has also taught in Paris-Saint-Denis, as well as at Ecole Normale Supérieure, at Ecole Polytechnique, at EHESS and at GLOW Summer Schools in Salzburg and Gerona. His main research interests are in comparative syntax, morphology, formal grammar and linguistic typology. Besides many articles in international journals, he has published Syntaxe du gallois: principes généraux et typologie (1994) and Arguments minimalistes. Une présentation du Programme Minimaliste de Noam Chomsky (2015).
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