Resumptive pronouns at the interfaces / edited by Alain Rouveret.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rouveret, Alain.

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France)

Université de Paris VII.

Series:

Language faculty and beyond ; v. 5.

Language faculty and beyond, 1877-6531 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Pronoun.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Generative grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (437 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This article focuses on the distribution and interpretation of resumption in Jordanian Arabic with respect to a well-known distinction: weak (clitics and doubled pronouns) versus strong (strong pronouns and epithets) resumption. We propose an analysis of resumption and reconstruction that relates two major asymmetries with respect to that distinction, (i) strong resumption banning QP antecedents in non-island contexts, contrary to weak resumption, and (ii) strong resumption banning reconstruction in strong island contexts, contrary to weak resumption. Our main conclusion is that weak (functional) resumptives support two distributive readings, either bound variable or e- type, whereas strong (lexical) resumptives can only get an e-type interpretation. The asymmetries stated above then just follow from further constraints on the two distributive readings.

Contents:

pt. 1. Syntactic uniformity/diversity of resumption

pt. 2. Issues in the semantics of resumptive pronouns and epithets.

Notes:

"This volume is based on a round table on resumptive pronouns which was held at the UFR de Linguistique, Université Paris-Diderot, on June 21 and 22, 2007."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613174925

9781283174923

1283174928

9789027286987

9027286981

OCLC:

746925416