Explaining syntax : representations, structures, and computation / Peter W. Culicover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Culicover, Peter W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Syntax.

English language.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book collects Peter Culicover's key observations on the nature of syntax and its place within the architecture of language. Over four decades his pioneering examinations of expression and interpretation have led him to rebalance the elements of grammar and to reformulate linguistic theory. The book will appeal to all theoretical linguists.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Prologue. The Simpler Syntax Hypothesis (2006); 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Two views on the relation between syntax and semantics; 1.3 Mainstream syntactic structures compared with Simpler Syntax; 1.4 Application to Bare Argument Ellipsis; 1.5 Some other cases where Fregean compositionality does not hold; 1.5.1 Metonymy; 1.5.2 Sound + motion construction; 1.5.3 Beneficiary dative construction; 1.6 Choosing between the two approaches; 1.7 Rules of grammar are stored pieces of structure; 1.8 Conclusion; Part I. Representations

2 OM-sentences: on the derivation of sentences with systematically unspecifiable interpretations (1972)2.1 Introduction; 2.2 On OM-sentences; 2.3 What can a consequential OM-sentence mean?; 2.4 Some proposals for derivation; 2.5 The incongruence reading of and-OM-sentences; 2.6 Rhetorical OM-sentences and the incongruence reading; 2.7 Summary; 3 On the coherence of syntactic descriptions (1973); 3.1 Rules for tags; 3.2 Orderings; 3.3 Neg-contraction; 3.4 More orderings; 3.5 Emphatic tags; 3.6 Some implications; 3.7 The impossibility of collapsing tag rules; 3.8 Similarity

3.9 Capturing similarity3.10 Definitions; 3.11 Coherence; 3.12 Towards a general notion of similarity; 4 Stress and focus in English (1983); 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Prosodic structure; 4.3 Assignment of focus; 4.4 The interpretation of focus; 4.5 Summary and review; 5 Control, PRO, and the Projection Principle (1992); 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 A theory of predication; 5.3 Arguments against syntactic PRO; 5.4 Arguments of Koster and May (1981) for syntactic PRO; 5.5 Comparison with the Projection Principle; 5.6 Conclusion; 6 Negative curiosities (1982); 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Tags: the polarity facts

6.3 Any6.4 More curiosities; 6.5 Conclusion; Part II. Structures; 7 Deriving dependent right adjuncts in English (1997); 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Properties of extraposition constructions; 7.3 The Complement Principle; 7.4 Extraposition is not rightward movement; 7.5 Leftward movement; 7.6 HNPS and PTI; 7.7 Conclusion; 8 Topicalization, inversion, and complementizers in English (1992); 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Two landing sites; 8.3 Additional evidence; 8.4 Extension to focus; 8.5 Summary; 9 The Adverb Effect: evidence against ECP accounts of the that-t effect (1992); 9.1 The Adverb Effect

9.2 Other complementizers9.3 Parasitic gaps; 9.4 Summary; 10 Stylistic Inversion in English: a reconsideration (2001); 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 PP is a subject; 10.3 Light and heavy inversion; 10.4 Conclusion; Part III. Computation; 11 A reconsideration of Dative Movements (1972); 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 The syntax of indirect objects; 11.3 Perceptual strategy constraints on acceptability; 11.4 Application of perceptual strategy to dative movements; 12 Markedness, antisymmetry, and complexity of constructions (2003); 12.1 Introduction; 12.2 Change and clustering

12.3 Markedness and computational complexity

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 October 6, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-966023-9

0-19-163568-5

OCLC:

922972601