Small phrase layers : a study of Finnish manner adverbials / Satu Helena Manninen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manninen, Satu, 1968-

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; 65.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finnish language--Adverbials.

Finnish language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This monograph examines the structure and properties of Finnish manner adverbials. The central idea is that, instead of AdvPs, DPs, APs, PPs, NumPs and InfinitivalPs, manner adverbials have the form of either kPs or pPs, and they are licensed as unique specifiers of a manner-related small vP. Secondly, because "obligatory" and "optional" manner adverbials are merged as specifiers of one and the same small vP, the computational system of language sees no difference between them. This is why "obligatory" and "optional" manner adverbials often behave in exactly the same way with regard to syntactic operations such as movement. Thirdly, the author shows that, although all arguments and VP-internal adverbials are merged as specifiers of a unique small vP, this hierarchical structure need not always be reflected in an unambiguous linear order: in many languages VP-internal manner, place and time adverbials are allowed to permute freely because they have no features which would need checking by the features of a higher functional head, and because their original Spec,vP positions are "invisible" to the Linear Correspondence Axiom. Although the argumentation and analyses are mainly supported by Finnish data, the author also shows how they can be applied to other languages. The book also contains an extensive introduction to Finnish, to help readers unfamiliar with the language to follow the discussion.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1.1 The scope of inquiry

1.2 Introduction to Finnish morphology

1.3 Word order

1.4 Is Finnish a confígurational language?

1.5 Outline of the book

THE MINIMALIST FRAMEWORK AND THE STRUCTURE OF FINNISH SENTENCES

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Functional projections

2.3. The functional structure of Finnish sentences

2.4 Summary

ADVERBIALS AND FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The theoretical framework

3.3 The feature-based theories of adverbials

3.4 Summary

THE STRUCTURE OF FINNISH MANNER ADVERBIALS

4.1 Finnish manner adverbials

4.2 Case licensing as movement and feature checking

4.3 Structural and lexical case in Finnish

4.4 Manner meaning and lexical case

4.5 Adverbs and lexical case

4.6 Summary

A THEORY OF LAYERED VPS

5.1 Preliminaries

5.2 A theory of layered VPs

5.3 The position of Finnish subjects

5.4 The order of benefactive and theme arguments

5.5 Summary

THE POSITION OF FINNISH MANNER ADVERBIALS

6.1 Arguments and 'optional' arguments

6.2 A Minimalist view on arguments and 'optional' arguments

6.3 The position of Finnish manner adverbials

6.4 The relation between Finnish manner, place and time adverbials

6.5 Summary

CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES

INDEX.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-269) and index.

ISBN:

9786613234100

9781283234108

1283234106

9789027282224

9027282226

OCLC:

750192393