Beyond functional sequence / edited by Ur Shlonsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shlonsky, Ur, editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in comparative syntax

Cartography of syntactic structures ; v. 10.

Cartography of syntactic structures ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

vii unnumbered pages, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Functional sequencing has been one of the major empirical goals of the nearly twenty-year-old cartographic enterprise in syntax. Beyond Functional Sequence presents a collection of original and self-contained contributions by renowned specialists in formal and comparative syntax that extends this goal in several directions. The book is structured in four parts. The first considers the impact of functional sequence on the semantics and pragmatics of focus, while the second discusses the distortion, as it were, of functional sequence by movement and the relation between cartographic maps and the case/agreement system. The third group of papers investigates the developments in the cartography of the left periphery of the clause and the noun phrase. The final group explores the determination of the hierarchical order of functional heads by semantic selection and the relation between cartography and labeling. Through a discussion of numerous languages and the examination of a wide range of syntactic phenomena, this collection illustrates the vigor of the cartographic research program-both its empirical scope and its conceptual rigor. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 The Articulation of Focus

1 Can the Metrical Structure of Italian Motivate Focus Fronting? / Giuliano Bocci Bocci, Giuliano, Cinzia Avesani Avesani, Cinzia 23

2 The Focus Map of Clefts: Extraposition and Predication / Adriana Belletti Belletti, Adriana 42

3 Focus Fronting and the Syntax-Semantics Interface / Valentina Bianchi Bianchi, Valentina 60

4 The Syntax of It-clefts and the Left Periphery of the Clause / Liliane Haegeman Haegeman, Liliane, André Meinunger Meinunger, André, Aleksandra Vercauteren Vercauteren, Aleksandra 73

5 Focus and wh in Jamaican Creole: Movement and Exhaustiveness / Stephanie Durrleman Durrleman, Stephanie, Ur Shlonsky Shlonsky, Ur 91

Part 2 Word Order, Features, and Agreement

6 Word Orders in the Old Italian DP / Cecilia Poletto Poletto, Cecilia 109

7 The CP/DP (Non-)Parallelism Revisited / Christopher Laenzlinger Laenzlinger, Christopher 128

8 Cartography and Optional Feature Realization in the Nominal Expression / Anna Cardinaletti Cardinaletti, Anna, Giuliana Giusti Giusti, Giuliana 151

9 Czech Numerals and No Bundling / Pavel Caha Caha, Pavel 173

Part 3 The Left Periphery

10 Cartographic Structures in Diachrony: The Case of C-omission / Irene Franco Franco, Irene 199

11 Two ReasonPs: What Are*(n't) You Coming to the United States For? / Yoshio Endo Endo, Yoshio 220

12 Double Fronting in Bavarian Left Periphery / Günther Grewenoorf Grewenoorf, Günther 232

Part 4 Hierarchies and Labels

13 Cartography and Selection: Case Studies in Japanese / Mamoru Saito Saito, Mamoru 255

14 On the Topography of Chinese Modals / Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan 275

15 The Clausal Hierarchy, Features, and Parameters / Theresa Biberauer Biberauer, Theresa, Ian Roberts Roberts, Ian 295

16 Cartography, Criteria, and Labeling / Luigi Rizzi Rizzi, Luigi 314.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190210588

0190210583

9780190210595

0190210591

OCLC:

900016325