Objects and other subjects : grammatical functions, functional categories and configurationality / edited by William D. Davies and Stanley Dubinsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, William D., 1954-2017.

Dubinsky, Stanley, 1952-

Series:

Studies in natural language and linguistic theory ; v. 52.

Studies in natural language and linguistic theory ; v. 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Functionalism (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2001]

Summary:

The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken together the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive view of how transformational syntax characterizes the elusive but often useful notions of subject and object, examining how subject and object properties are distributed among various functional projections, converging sometimes in particular languages.

Contents:

1. Remarks on Grammatical Functions in Transformational Syntax / William D. Davies, Stanley Dubinsky 1

2. Phrase Structure as a Representation of "Primitive" Grammatical Relations / Mark C. Baker 21

3. Grammatical Functions, Thematic Roles, and Phrase Structure: Their Underlying Disunity / Frederick J. Newmeyer 53

4. Is Case Another Name for Grammatical Function? Evidence from Object Asymmetries / Alex Alsina 77

Part II Objects

5. Subjects, Objects, and the EPP / Howard Lasnik 103

6. Derived Objects in Malagasy / Lisa deMena Travis 123

Part III Subjects

7. The Distribution of Subject Properties in Irish / James McCloskey 157

8. The EPP in Spanish / Grant Goodall 193

9. On Predication and the Status of Subjects in Niuean / Diane Massam 225

10. Functional Architecture and the Distribution of Subject Properties / William D. Davies, Stanley Dubinsky 247.

Notes:

Papers presented at a workshop held July 1999 at the LSA Linguistic Institute, Urbana-Champaign, Ill.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-295) and indexes.

ISBN:

1402000642

1402000650

OCLC:

47894201