Syntax and its limits / edited by Raffaella Folli, Christina Sevdali, Robert Truswell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Folli, Raffaella.

Sevdali, Christina.

Truswell, Robert.

Series:

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 48

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics ; v.48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (479 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leading linguists explore the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which both syntactic and nonsyntactic analyses appear plausible. The volume is organized into four thematic sections: architectures; syntax and information structure; syntax and the lexicon; and lexical items at the interfaces.

Contents:

Cover; Syntax and its Limits; Copyright; Contents; General Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Abbreviations; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Part I: Architectures; 1.2 Part II: Syntax and Information Structure; 1.3 Part III: Syntax and the Lexicon; 1.4 Part IV: Lexical Items at the Interfaces; Part I: Architectures; 2 : Harmonic Derivationalism; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Opacity; 2.3 The Condition on Extraction from Copies; 2.4 Analysis; 2.4.1 The DS-LF model; 2.5 Discussion; 2.6 Conclusion; 3: Reconstruction, Control, and Movement; 3.1 Introduction

3.2 Reconstruction Across Control Dependencies3.3 Lechner's Double Dissociation; 3.4 Trapping and Countertrapping; 3.4 Conclusion; 4: Linearizing Empty Edges; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 A Phonological Account of the ECP; 4.2.1 The data and a phonological account; 4.2.2 Problems with prosodic accounts; 4.3 Towards a New Account of Empty-Edge Effects; 4.3.1 The road to phonology; 4.3.2 Our account: empty-edge effects follow from linearization; 4.4 Conclusion; 5: Evidence for the Use of Verb Telicity in Sentence Comprehension; 5.1 Introduction; 5.1.1 Event structure and telicity

5.1.2 Telicity is not reducible to transitivity5.1.3 Investigating the comprehension of structurally ambiguous sentences; 5.1.4 Argument structure and the reduced relative effect: MacDonald's study; 5.1.5 Stevenson and Merlo (1997); 5.1.6 Telicity and the reduced relative effect: the Event Structure Processing hypothesis; 5.2 Prior Experiments Bearing on the Hypothesis; 5.2.1 Self-paced reading results; 5.2.2 Auditory sentence comprehension results; 5.2.3 Eye-tracking during reading: results; 5.3 TheWord Maze Experiment; 5.3.1 Methods; 5.3.2 Results; 5.3.3 Discussion of word maze results

5.4 General Discussion and Conclusions5.4.1 The time course of the effects; 5.4.2 Telicity and transitivity are independent; 5.4.3 Incorporating telicity into current processing models; Part II: Syntax and Information Structure; 6: Focus Intervention in Declaratives; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Intervention Effects in Questions; 6.3 Intervention Effects in Declaratives; 6.4 Conclusion and Implications; 7: Root Phenomena as Interface Phenomena: Evidence from Non-sententials; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Root Phenomena and their Host; 7.3 Non-sententials/Fragments

7.4 First Set of Data: French Dislocated Topics in Fragments7.4.1 The evidence; 7.4.2 Do they host true root phenomena?; 7.4.3 Are these elided full clauses?; 7.4.4 Summary of findings; 7.5 Second Set of Data: Japanese Politeness Markers in Fragments; 7.5.1 The evidence; 7.5.2 Are these in fact reduced clefts?; 7.5.3 Summary of findings; 7.6 Conclusions; 8: 'Contrast' and its Relation to wa in Japanese and nun in Korean; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Topic, Focus, and Contrast; 8.3 Mapping [contrast] and [topic]; 8.3.1 [Contrast] in Korean; 8.3.2 [Topic] in Japanese

8.4 Ordering Restrictions between Contrastive Topic and Contrastive Focus

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 January 2, 2014).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-968324-7

1-306-18877-6

0-19-150626-5

OCLC:

868922320