Towards a derivational syntax : Survive-minimalism / edited by Michael T. Putnam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Putnam, Michael T.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 144

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Generative grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper examines what data from language change can tell us about derivations, and in particular the early part of the derivation where lexical items are selected from the lexicon using the Survive mechanism. It is well-known that in changes often referred to as grammaticalization the features of lexical items are not only lost but reanalyzed from semantic to grammatical. I argue this is due to principles economizing derivations. Unlike many using Survive, I argue that uninterpretable features are in fact necessary.

Contents:

The numeration in Survive-minimalism / Thomas S. Stroik

Part II. Studies of movement phenomena and structure building in Survive-minimalism: Long-distance agreement without Probe-Goal relations / Omer Preminger

Musings on the left periphery in West Germanic: German left dislocation and 'survive' / Gema Chocano

Tense, finiteness and the survive principle: Temporal chains in a crash-proof grammar / Kristen Eide

When grammars collide: Code-switching in Survive-minimalism / Michael T. Putnam & M. Carmen Parafita Couto

Using the Survive principle for deriving coordinate (a)symmetries / John R. te Velde

Part III. Convert and non-movement operations in Survive-minimalism: Syntactic identity in Survive-minimalism: Ellipsis and the derivational identity hypothesis / Gregory M. Kobele

Evidence for Survive from covert movement / Winfried Lechner

Language change and survive: Feature economy in the numeration / Elly van Gelderen.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612245350

9781282245358

128224535X

9789027289414

9027289417

OCLC:

649900809