Coreference, modality, and focus : studies on the syntax-semantics interface / edited by Luis Eguren, Olga Fernandez Soriano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eguren, Luis.

Fernández Soriano, Olga.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 111.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 111

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Semantics.

Reference (Linguistics).

Modality (Linguistics).

Focus (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

xii, 239 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework, mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the syntax-semantics interface. The major concerns are coreference relations, modals and modality, and focus/ellipsis. More specifically, the contributions present research findings from different languages, often adopting a comparative perspective, and include studies on sub-extraction from subjects and objects; on obviation and Control structures; on specificity and Weak Crossover effects; and on reconstruction without movement, as well as papers that address the scopal interactions between tense/aspect and modals; the syntactic and semantic properties of different types of left-periphery operators; and the role focus plays in elliptical constructions.

Contents:

Coreference, Modality, and Focus

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Tensed modals

1. Introduction

2. Imperfective modals

3. Modals and the preterit

3.1 The epistemic construal

3.2 The entailment reading

3.3 The counterfactual reading

4. Temporal parameters and modality

5. Modals and negation

6. The perfect

7. Conclusions

References

Weak Crossover, specificity and LF chains

2. Weakest Crossover

3. A formalization of the notion of specificity

4. Introducing the specificity tests

A. Antireconstruction

B. Weak island extraction

C. Participial agreement in French

D. Clitic doubling in Romanian

E. Extraction from existential constructions

F. Scope reconstruction

5. Methodological remarks

6. Specificity tests

6.1 A. Antireconstruction

6.2 B. Weak island extraction

6.3 C. Participial agreement in French

6.4 D. Clitic doubling in Romanian

6.5 E. Extraction from existential constructions

6.6 F. Scope reconstruction

6.7 Conclusion

7. WCO and LF chains

7.1 Specificity and LF chains

7.2 WCO configurations

8. Future extensions and refinements

8.1 Feature transmission under variable binding

8.2 Some open empirical issues

9. Conclusion

Conditions on sub-extraction

2. Islands and minimalism

3. CED effects

3.1 On freezing effects in SPEC-T

3.2 Phase theory and phase edges

3.3 More asymmetries on sub-extraction

4. Sub-extraction from objects

5. Concluding remarks

Focus, exhaustivity, and deletion in English Pseudogapping

2. Pseudogapping

3. The role of focus in the semantics of ellipsis

3.1 The question of alternatives

3.2 Kratzer's (1991) account.

3.3 Alternatives and contrastiveness: An extension of Kratzer's (1991) theory

4. The role of focus in the syntactic derivation of Pseudogapping in English

4.1 Previous analyses of Pseudogapping

4.1.1 Movement of the remnant: HNPS and Pseudogapping

4.1.2 Movement of the remnant: Object Shift

4.2 The EPP and focus

5. The exhaustivity problem

5.1 Focus movement in Hungarian

5.2 Exhaustivity in ellipsis

5.3 Syntactic focus movement and contrastiveness

6. Extension to other ellipsis cases: Sluicing

7. Conclusion

Reconstruction and scope in exclamative sentences

2. Two types of exclamative sentences

3. Negation in exclamative sentences

3.1 Scope effects in exclamative sentences

3.2 Apparent counter examples

3.3 Exclamative quantifiers as positive polarity items

4. Reconstruction and scope

5. Conclusions

Reconstruction without movement

2. Resumption

3. Reconstruction

4. Reconstruction and resumption

5. The paradox

6. Reconstruction: Issues and parameters

6.1 Type of resumption

6.2 Type of binding condition: positive vs. negative

6.3 Gap vs. resumption

6.4 Scope vs. binding reconstruction

7. Our proposal: What copies can do

7.1 Syntactic asymmetries: On copy processes

7.1.1 Reconstruction with weak resumption via ellipsis

7.1.2 Reconstruction with strong resumption via movement

7.2 Semantic asymmetries: On copy interpretation

7.2.1 Resumptives as definite copies

7.2.2 Covariant readings of definite copies

8. Conclusion

From polarity to modality

2. Emphatic affirmation in Spanish

2.1 The affirmative marker sí

2.2 Bien as an assertive marker

2.3 Bien vs. sí: The illocutionary force of bien.

3. Syntactic analysis of assertive markers bien and sí

3.1 Emphatic affirmation and negative polarity Some puzzling asymmetries

3.2 The status of emphatic affirmative markers as wh-operators

3.3 The position of the subject in emphatic affirmative sentences

3.4 Recapitulation: bien and sí in the articulated CP domain

4. On the status of que in emphatic affirmative sentences

4.1 From bien to bien que

4.2 Sí in pre-Comp position

4.3 Characterizing que in the CP domain

4.3.1 Alternative I: que heads FocusP

4.3.2 Alternative II: que heads ForceP

5. Conclusion

Beyond the Infinitive vs. Subjunctive Rivalry

2. The phenomenon

3. From Classical Greek to Modern Greek Tracing back some changes in Greek

3.1 Delimiting the object of study

3.2 Greek and the loss of infinitives

3.3 What lies beneath: surviving changes in Mood

3.3.1 Loss of subjunctive in infl

3.3.2 The gradual birth of the Subjunctive C

3.4 Summary

4. Complementation: Parataxis, true embedding and hybrid instances

5. The analysis

6. Conclusions

Romance infinitives with subjects, subjunctive obviation and Control Theory

2. Control and inflected infinitives: Case-driven accounts

3. Control and inflected infinitives: Movement accounts

4. Control and inflected infinitives: Attract-driven accounts

5. Subjunctive obviation: Some background notions

6. Subjunctive properties and inflected infinitives

7. Inflected infinitives and a sympathetic theory of control

8. Summary and concluding remarks

On the syntactic features of epistemic and root modals

2. Relative scope of Tense and Modals

2.1 Epistemic modals scope over tense

2.2 The universal hierarchy of functional categories

3. Epistemic modals and Force.

3.1 Epistemics and connected speech

3.2 Epistemic Modals and Quantifiers

3.2.1 Interpretation of declarative Force

3.2.2 Syntactic contexts for epistemics and other speech event modifiers

3.3 Variation in the features of Force

3.3.1 Evidential systems

3.3.2 Relative tenses

4. Modality and Mood

5. Summary

Subject index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612151934

9781282151932

1282151932

9789027291257

902729125X

OCLC:

648331544