Minimalism and beyond : radicalizing the interfaces / edited by Peter Kosta [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kosta, P. (Peter), editor.

Series:

Language faculty and beyond ; Volume 11.

Language Faculty and Beyond, 1877-6531 ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minimalist theory (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Linguistics--Research.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The problem pursued in this paper concerns the role of Arbitrariness in linguistic expressions. Saussurean Arbitrariness is due to the conventional sound-meaning-relation of linguistic expressions. It is systematically projected (but not reduced) from Lexical Items to linguistic expressions of unrestricted complexity by the operation of Merge. This raises the question, whether this arbitrariness is an incidental byproduct of the systems complexity, which could be avoided under conditions of optimal design. With this perspective, language is compared to mental systems of comparable complexity,

Contents:

Minimalism and Beyond; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; List of contributors; I. Minimalism: Quo Vadis?; A program for the Minimalist Program; 1. Introduction; 2. The reduction of long distance grammatical interactions to chain relations; 3. Deriving the properties of chains; 4. What's new?; 5. Conclusion; Notes; References; II. Exploring features in syntax; On feature interpretability and inheritance; Notes; References; On the need for formal features in the narrow syntax; 1. Formal features: Can we live without them?; 2. Roots vs. affixes: A comparison

2.1 The semantic flexibility of roots2.2 Position; 2.3 The nature of RLex-features; 3. F-features: Are they all post-syntactic in nature?; 3.1 F-features in the narrow syntax: Clitic vs. non-clitic alternations in French and the PCC6; 3.2 F-features in the narrow syntax: Evidence from CA; 4. Conclusions and directions for future investigations; Notes; References; Adjunct Control and edge features; 1. Introduction; 2. Previous approaches within the Movement Theory of Control; 2.1 Sideward Movement and Merge-over-Move; 2.2 Adjunct control in Portuguese and parasitic gaps; 2.3 Summary

3. Towards an analysis of adjunct control in Portuguese3.1 The nature of finite T in BP; 3.2 Adjunct control and the locus of edge features; 4. Further extensions: Null possessors in Portuguese; 5. Concluding remarks; Notes; References; On the uninterpretability of interpretable features; 1. Introduction; 1.1 A universal set of formal features?; 1.2 Syntactic and semantic properties of formal features; 1.3 Outline and scope; 2. Acquiring formal features; 2.1 Proposal; 2.2 Example: Negative Concord; 3. Interpreting interpretable features; 3.1 Theoretical problems; 3.2 Empirical problems

3.2.1 Non-negative contexts checking [uNEG]3.2.2 Negative contexts that cannot check [uNEG]; 3.3 Proposal; 4. Conclusions; References; The Merge Condition; 1. Introduction; 2. Agree as a condition on Merge; 2.1 Reverse Agree; 2.2 Selection via Reverse Agree; 2.3 Ellipsis; 2.4 Selection as part of syntactic structure building; 2.5 Feature valuation as a (Last Resort) condition on Merge; 3. Agree and other cases of complementation; 3.1 Complement selection; 3.2 Clausal complementation in English and German; 3.3 Embedded root clauses - Merge at Transfer; 4. Conclusions - Quo vadis?; Notes

ReferencesIII. Radicalizing the interfaces; Chains in Minimalism; 1. Introduction; 2. Some minimalist concepts of chain; 3. Towards a new understanding of chains in minimalism; 3.1 An analysis of A-chains; 3.2 Some issues concerning A-bar chains; 3.3 Summary; 4. Some extensions of the program; 4.1 Obligatory control; 4.2 Parasitic gaps; 5. Conclusion; Notes; References; Multiattachment syntax, "Movement" effects, and Spell-Out; 1. The project; 2. On cyclic domains; 2.1 Motivation for intermediate movement; 2.2 Reasons to constrain movement: wh-island and (other) relativized minimality effects

2.3. Ways of forcing recourse to an escape hatch

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027270061

9027270066

OCLC:

890694759