Phase theory / Ángel J. Gallego.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallego, Ángel J.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; 152

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minimalist theory (Linguistics).

Generative grammar.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a detailed and up to date review of the framework of phases (Chomsky 2000 and subsequent work). It explores the interaction between the narrow syntactic computation and the external systems from a minimalist perspective. As has sometimes been noted, Phase Theory is the current way to study the cyclic nature of the system, and 'phases' are therefore the natural locality hallmark, being directly relevant for phenomena such as binding, agreement, movement, islands, reconstruction, or stress assignment. This work discusses the different approaches to phases that have been proposed in the recent literature, arguing in favor of the thesis that the points of cyclic transfer are to be related to uninterpretable morphology (the Φ-features on the heads C and v*). This take on phases is adopted in order to investigate raising structures, binding, subjunctive dependents, and object shift (word order) in Romance languages, as well as the nature of islands.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

1. The framework : operations and cyclic architecture

2. Phase theory and phase sliding

3. Microvariation in null subject languages

4. Phases and islands

5. Beyond phases

References

Language index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612558597

9781282558595

1282558595

9789027288370

9027288372

OCLC:

712989533