Scrambling and the survive principle / Michael T. Putnam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Putnam, Michael T.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 115.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today ; v. 115

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Generative grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Languages with free word orders pose daunting challenges to linguistic theory because they raise questions about the nature of grammatical strings. Ross, who coined the term Scrambling to refer to the relatively 'free' word orders found in Germanic languages (among others) notes that "… the problems involved in specifying exactly the subset of the strings which will be generated … are far too complicated for me to even mention here, let alone come to grips with" (1967:52). This book offers a radical re-analysis of middle field Scrambling. It argues that Scrambling is a concatenation effect, as described in Stroik's (1999, 2000, 2007) Survive analysis of minimalist syntax, driven by an interpretable referentiality feature [Ref] to the middle field, where syntactically encoded features for temporality and other world indices are checked. The purpose of this book is to investigate the syntactic properties of middle field Scrambling in synchronic West Germanic languages, and to explore, to what possible extent we can classify Scrambling as a 'syntactic phenomenon' within Survive-minimalist desiderata.

Contents:

Scrambling and the Survive Principle

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Dedication

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 The Minimalist Program

1.2 Enter Survive

1.3 Survive-Minimalism

1.4 Alternative Approaches to Scrambling

1.5 Scrambling and the Survive Principle

2. PROPERTIES OF SCRAMBLING

2.1 Strong vs. Weak Scrambling

2.2 Selectional Properties of Verbs

2.3 Scrambling is not NP-movement

2.4 Scrambling is not wh-movement

2.5 Scrambling is not Topicalization

2.6 Interim Conclusion

2.7 Freezing and Anti-Freezing Effects

2.8 Referentiality

2.9 Scope Bleeding

2.10 Prosody

2.11.1 XP-Scrambling is not driven by a Scope Feature

2.12 Conclusion

3. THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS

3.1 Syntactic Featurehood

3.2 Prolific Domains and their Potential Role in Survive-minimalism

3.3 Eliminating XP-Adjunction

3.4 [+ Ref] in English, Pennsylvania German, and German and the Diachronic Loss of Scrambling

3.5 Conclusion

4. THE PROSODIC SIDE OF SCRAMBLING

4.1 Introduction to the Prosody-Syntax Interface

4.2 Minimalist View of the Prosody-Syntax Interface

4.3 Permuted Word Orders in the Middle Field

4.4 The Coherent Infinitive Puzzle

4.5 Implications for the Model of the Grammar

4.6 Conclusion

5. CONCLUSION

5.1 [+ Ref] and the Design of the Middle Field

5.2 De re/de dicto distinction

5.3 A Sketch of Japanese and Russian Scrambling in Survive-Minimalism

5.4 Conclusion

REFERENCES

SUBJECT INDEX

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-212) and index.

ISBN:

9786612152610

9781282152618

1282152610

9789027291967

9027291969

OCLC:

647673110