Nominal syntax at the interfaces : a comparative analysis of languages with articles / by Giuliana Giusti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giusti, Giuliana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

This volume offers a new perspective on the syntax of nominal expressions in various European languages, arguing that articles do not directly and biunivocally realise semantic definiteness. The first two chapters provide an accessible introduction to recent developments in generative syntax, namely the cartographic and minimalist approaches, by focusing on the "imperfect" parallels between clauses and nominal expressions. The third chapter shows that feature sharing is not the result of a unique syntactic process, but, rather, the consequence of Merge, which creates syntactic structure instan

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

SOURCE ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

1.1. Economy and Full Interpretation

1.2. Expletives, Case and Redundancy

1.3. Building Syntactic Structure

1.3.1. The Clause

1.3.2. The Nominal Expression (NE)

1.4. Phases

CHAPTER TWO

2.1. The Semantic Tradition

2.2. Competing Syntactic Accounts

2.2.1. A Narrow Russellian Approach

2.2.2. A Neo-Carlsonian Approach

2.2.3. The NP/DP Parameter

2.3. Towards a Unifying Proposal

CHAPTER THREE

3.1. Argument Selection and Agreement

3.2. Modification and Concord

3.3. Minimal Syntax and Projection

CHAPTER FOUR

4.1 Quantity Items

4.2 Demonstratives

4.3 Possessives

4.4 Personal Pronouns

4.5 Proper Names

4.6 Interim Conclusions

CHAPTER FIVE

5.1 The Enclitic Article in Romanian

5.2. The Proclitic Article in Italian

5.3 Scandinavian "Double Definiteness"

5.4 Articles as Oblique Case Markers in German

5.5 Interim Conclusions

CHAPTER SIX

6.1 Adjectival Articles in Balkan Languages

6.2 Prenominal Quel and Bel in Italian

6.3 Adnominal Adjectival Declension in German

CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8567-3

OCLC:

927160082