Syntactic effects of conjunctivist semantics : unifying movement and adjunction / Tim Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Tim, 1982-

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 170.

Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 170

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Conjunctions.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Adjuncts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax is proposed, guided by an independently motivated hypothesis about the composition of neo-Davidsonian logical forms, in which there is no atomic movement operation and no atomic adjunction operation. The terms 'movement' and 'adjunction' serve only as convenient labels for certain combinations of other, primitive operations, and as a result the system derives non-trivial predictions about how movement and adjunction should interact; in particular,

Contents:

Syntactic Effects of Conjunctivist Semantics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1.Introduction; 2.Background; 3.Arguments, adjuncts and Conjunctivist interpretation; 4.Adjunct islands and freezing effects; 5.Quantification via Conjunctivist interpretation; 6.Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of names; Index of subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613174963

9781283174961

1283174960

9789027287328

9027287325

OCLC:

746927028