Edges, heads, and projections : interface properties / edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Virginia Hill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Di Sciullo, Anne-Marie, 1951-

Hill, Virginia.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 156.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 156

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Generative grammar--Congresses.

Generative grammar.

Physical Description:

vi, 265 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper investigates the relation between cartographic and phasal heads in the light of Chomsky's recent proposals (2007) of feature transfer from C to T; the data come from Meiteilon, a language that lacks Tense morphology. I argue that the evidence from this language provides striking confirmation for the proposals that something like T exists even in languages without Tense, insofar that this head inherits uninterpretable features from a higher C-like dominating head. Moreover, the evidence from finite clausal complementation in the language shows that such feature transfer/inheritance relations are restricted to within phases.

Contents:

Why edges are needed / Cedric Boeckx

Bare nouns with different edges / Tabea Ihsane

Implicit agentivity without agents in the syntax : a crosslinguistic analysis of SE-verbs / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin

On the edge-feature of particles, interjections, and short answers / Nicola Munaro

The grammar of polarity particles in Romanian / Donka F. Farkas

Evidentials as generalized functional heads / Peggy Speas

On the pre-theoretical notion phrasal head : ignoring the left periphery is always at your own risk / Alexandru Grosu

Predication and the nature of non-finite relatives in Romance / Ion Giurgea and Elena Soare

On the asymmetry of root versus embedded clauses : evidence from Shipibo second position clitics / José Camacho

The cartography of phases : facts and inference in Meiteilon / Ayesha Kidwai.

Notes:

Based on presentations at a conference on "Interface legibility at the edge", organized by the editors and held in Bucharest in June 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612663413

9781282663411

1282663410

9789027288288

9027288283

OCLC:

657761850