The Parametrization of universal grammar / edited by Gisbert Fanselow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fanselow, Gisbert.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 8.

Linguistik aktuell, 0166-0829 ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Principles and parameters (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this volume the subject of parametrization is addressed from various, though interrelated perspectives, ranging from learnability, the form and nature of parametrization, the role of the interface between morphology and syntax and the parameters of X-bar syntax, to the lexical parametrization hypothesis.

Contents:

CONTENTS; Instead of a Preface: Some Reflections on Parameters; Principled Variability: Parametrization without Parameter Fixing; Parameter Setting and the Binding Theory: No Subset Problem; Projecting Inflected Verbs; The Projection of Categories and the Nature of Agreement; The Structure of German Verb Projections - A Problem of Syntactic Parametrization?; The Definition of Morphological and Syntactic Words; On the Linear Order of the Modifier-Head-Position in NPS; On the Parametrization of Lexical Properties; The Syntax of ""Possessor"" Phrases

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613234315

90-272-8243-9

1-283-23431-9

OCLC:

745866924