A syntax of Serbian : clausal architecture / Ljiljana Progovac.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Progovac, Ljiljana.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Serbian language--Syntax.

Serbian language.

Serbian language--Clauses.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Physical Description:

245 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Ind. : Slavica Pub., 2005.

Contents:

Introduction

1.1. The rationale

1.2. Chapter-by-chapter overview

Word order and movement

2.1. Introductory words

2.2. Varied word order and copy-and-delete

2.3. Wh-movement

2.3.1. Single wh-movement and non-movement strategies

2.3.2. Subjunctive-like verbs and domain extension

2.3.3. Multiple wh-questions

2.4. Verb raising

2.4.1. Verb raising to i

2.4.2. Verb raising to c

2.5. Quantifier raising

2.6. Np movement: raising and passive

2.7. Concluding remarks

Cps and/or polarity phrases

3.1. Introductory words

3.2. Split cp

3.3. An alternative to cp: polarity phrase

3.4. Wh-/polarity connection

3.5. eventive to

3.6. Concluding remarks

Tense phrases, agreement phrases, and the expletive se

4.1. Introductory words

4.2. Tense phrases

4.2.1. Tsp and top

4.2.2. Tenses in Serbian

4.2.3. Concluding remarks

4.3. Agrsps and agrops: nominative, accusative, dative

4.3.1. Introductory words

4.3.2. Agrs phrase (and pro-drop)

4.3.3. Agro phrase

4.3.4. Dative subjects and dative objects

4.4. Expletive se

4.4.1. introductory note

4.4.2. Agrop and se

4.4.3. Impersonal se

4.5. Concluding remarks

Aspect phrases

5.1. Introductory words

5.2. Perfective and imperfective in Serbian

5.3. Perfective prefixes, quantification, and aspop

5.4. Imperfective suffixes, quantification, and aspsp

5.5. Completion and transitivity

5.6. Concluding remarks

At the head of the clause: second position clitics

6.1. Introductory words

6.2. Full vs. clitic forms

6.3. Special positioning and clustering

6.4. Stress or structure: is there a first-word option?

6.5. Intonation (and clause) boundaries

6.6. It can't be the first word: evidence from event

Demonstrative to

6.7. Subjunctive-like complements, clitic climbing, and

Other movement operations

6.8. Clitic-second and verb-second: the connection

6.8.1. Verb-second

6.8.2. Clitics target the highest clausal head

6.9. Clitics as affixes on a silent copy of the verb

6.9.1. An outline of the analysis

6.9.2. Clitic-second and the lexical verb

6.9.3. Clitic-second and the auxiliary verb

6.9.4. clitic-second and complementizers

6.10. Concluding remarks

Negative concord, polarity, and the two polps

7.1. Foreword

7.2. Introduction: negative and positive feature

Checking and the distribution of polarity items

7.2.1. Outline of the analysis

7.2.2. Basic assumptions about polarity phrases

7.2.3. Organization

7.3. N-words and ppis

7.4. Serbian i-npis and English any-npis

7.5. Wh-questions and npis

7.6. Wh-adjuncts and npis

7.7. Concluding remarks

Event pronominal to

8.1. Foreword

8.2. Introduction

8.3. To as an event pronominal

8.3.1. Introductory words

8.3.2. Deictic to

8.3.3. Anaphoric to

8.3.4. Bound-variable to

8.4. To/ovo/ono

8.5. Concluding remarks

Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0893573221

OCLC:

60402056