The syntax of specifiers and heads : collected essays of Hilda J. Koopman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koopman, Hilda Judith.

Series:

Routledge leading linguists ; 3.

Routledge leading linguists ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as: * interpretation and distribution of pronouns * ECP effects * specifiers and phrase structure * the role and functioning of head movement * the architecture of grammar Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Variables and the Bijection Principle with Dominique Sportiche; Pronouns, logical variables, and logophoricity in Abe with Dominique Sportiche; The internal and external distribution of pronominal DPs; ECP effects in main clauses; Control from COMP and comparative syntax; A note on long extraction in Vata and the ECP with Dominique Sportiche; On the absence of case chains in Bambara; Prepositions, postpositions, circumpositions, and particles: the structure of Dutch PPs; Licensing heads; On Verbs that fail to undergo V-second

The Spec head configurationUnifying predicate cleft constructions; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-71823-3

1-280-14216-2

0-203-02786-8

0-203-17160-8

9780203027868

OCLC:

567920236