Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu : the syntax of discourse-driven movement / Emily Manetta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manetta, Emily.

Series:

Language faculty and beyond ; v. 4.

Language faculty and beyond ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Kashmiri language--Syntax.

Kashmiri language.

Hindi language--Syntax.

Hindi language.

Urdu language--Syntax.

Urdu language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This research monograph is an investigation of wh-movement and wh-expletive constructions in the Indic languages Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu. It advances a novel theory of the periphery, or the clausal positions that mediate A-bar movement. In particular, a detailed study of wh-expletives and wh-expletive constructions reveals an underlying similarity of design between the A and A-bar systems, and indicates that the two can be understood as driven by the same basic set of mechanisms. The monograph offers an account of wh-movement and the clausal periphery in the two languages, informed by the latest strands of research on the syntax and semantics of A-bar movement. This micro-comparative analytical method yields an important result: we can understand a set of systematic contrasts between the two languages in terms of the properties of specifically the phase-defining heads C and v. Empirically, this work explores the lesser-studied language Kashmiri, bringing to the fore linguistic data not yet discussed in formal syntactic literature. The significance of these data for the development of the wider theoretical framework is stressed throughout, making the book of substantial interest for general linguistic research.

Contents:

Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

1.1. Empirical Overview

1.1.1 The left periphery of Kashmiri

1.1.2 Long-distance wh-dependencies in Kashmiri

1.1.3 The wh-expletive construction in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu

1.1.4 Sluicing in Hindi-Urdu

1.2. Theoretical Context

1.2.1 Minimalist Assumptions

1.2.2 Phases

1.2.3 A and A-bar Movement

1.3. Organization of the Book

2. Feature Stacking

2.1. Kashmiri: A Brief Introduction

2.1.1 Kashmiri Data

2.1.2 Syntax

2.1.3 Previous Work on Kashmiri

2.2. The Kashmiri Left Periphery

2.3. The Cartographic Approach to the Left Periphery of Kashmiri

2.4. New Opportunities

2.4.1 The Specifier-Head Relation

2.4.2 The Cartographic Project and the Phase

2.4.3 Order of Projections: Encoding Variation

2.5. Feature Stacking

2.5.1 Features and the Lexicon

2.5.2 More on Feature Stacking

2.5.3 Regularity and Idiosyncracy

2.5.4 An Additional Empirical Question: The Kashmiri Element ki

2.5.5 Theoretical Advantages

3. Full and partial wh-movement in Kashmiri

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Kashmiri question formation and the structure of the clause

3.2.1 The Kashmiri question

3.2.2 Assumptions about the structure of the Kashmiri clause

3.3. Analyzing full and partial wh-movement in Kashmiri

3.3.1 A new account of a-bar movement

3.3.2 Restrictions on wh-expletives

3.3.3 Previous approaches to wh-expletive constructions: Indirect and direct dependency

3.3.4 Interpreting wh-expletive constructions

3.4. Additional empirical investigations

3.4.1 A Kashmiri issue: Factive predicates

3.4.2 A Crosslinguistic issue: Multiple wh-expletives

3.5. Conclusion

Appendix: C heads in the lexicon of Kashmiri.

4. Wh-expletives in Hindi-Urdu

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Wh-dependencies in Hindi-Urdu and Kashmiri

4.3. The position of wh-material in Hindi-Urdu

4.3.1 Focused constituents

4.3.2 Adverbs

4.4. A-bar movement in Hindi-Urdu: Extending an account of Kashmiri

4.4.1 Kashmiri wh-dependencies

4.4.2 Extending the proposed account to Hindi-Urdu

4.5. Wh-dependencies in Hindi-Urdu: The vP phase

4.5.1 Wh-movement in Tagalog: A case for [Q]-bearing v

4.5.2 An account of Hindi-Urdu wh-dependencies

4.5.3 Comparison with other accounts

4.5.4 Conclusion

5. Sluicing in Hindi-Urdu

5.1. Sluicing in Hindi-Urdu and Kashmiri

5.2. Accounts without movement to Spec, CP

5.3. A new account: Movement to Spec, CP

6. Conclusions

6.1. A theory of the periphery

6.2. Wh-expletives and the role of expletives in the grammar

6.3. Phases and their edges

6.4. Displacement and formal features

6.5. New research opportunities

6.6. Summary

References

Index.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral-University of California, Santa Cruz) under the title: Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613174932

9781283174930

1283174936

9789027286994

902728699X

OCLC:

746221677