Exploring nanosyntax / edited by Lena Baunaz, Karen De Clercq, Liliane Haegeman, and Eric Lander.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baunaz, Lena, editor.

De Clercq, Karen, editor.

Haegeman, Liliane M. V., editor.

Lander, Eric, editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in comparative syntax

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Exploring Nanosyntax is the first in-depth introduction to the framework of nanosyntax. Deploying the cartographic "one feature - one head" maxim, the framework decomposes morphosyntactic structure, laying bare the building blocks of the universal functional sequence. This volume presents the framework's constitutive tools and principles, and explains how nanosyntax relates to cartography and to Distributed Morphology. It also illustrates how nanosyntactic tools and principles can e applied to a range of empirical domains of natural language. Comprising twelve original contributions by leaders of the field, the volume provides a range of cross-linguistic investigations that contribute to a better understanding of the functional sequence. Book jacket.

Contents:

Background. Nanosyntax: the basics / Lena Baunaz & Eric Lander

Notes on insertion in distributed morphology and nanosyntax / Pavel Caha

Spanning vs. constituent lexicalization: the case of Portmanteau prefixes / Tarald Taraldsen

Empirical investigations. A note on Kim's Korean question particles seen as pronouns / Michal Starke

Syncretism and containment in spatial deixis / Eric Lander & Liliane Haegeman

Decomposing complementizers : the Fseq of French, Modern Greek, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian complementizers / Lena Baunaz

Syncretisms and the morphosyntax of negation / Karen De Clercq

The nanosyntax of Russian verbal prefixes / Inna Tolskaya

Theoretical explorations. Complex left branches, spellout, and prefixes / Michal Starke

Word order and nanosyntax: preverbal subjects and interrogatives across Spanish varieties / Antonio Fábregas

The feature structure of pronouns: a probe into multidimensional paradigms / Guido Vanden Wyngaerd

Fseq zones and Slavic L>T>N participles / Lucie Taraldsen Medová & Bartosz Wiland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Exploring nanosyntax.

ISBN:

9780190876753

0190876751

9780190876746

0190876743

OCLC:

1007500805