Head movement in syntax / Rosmin Mathew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mātyu, Rōsmin, author.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Volume 224.

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 0166-0829 ; Volume 224

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb phrase.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verbals.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Phraseology.

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Minimalist theory (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Head Movement in Syntax argues that verb movement is a narrow syntactic phenomenon that can affect locality constraints. The altered locality domains are detectable from the way certain phrasal elements such as a phrase containing a Wh are forced to undergo movement. The basic idea explored in the book dates back to Chomsky (1986) where the movement of a verb is proposed to be able to affect and alter a barrier. This idea is translated into contemporary minimalist apparatus to capture locality conditions, with Wh movement in Malayalam, a Dravidian language spoken in Southern India, providing the necessary data. The book also points out that analysing Wh movement in Malayalam as a sub-case of Focus movement is untenable and offers a fresh perspective on Wh-in-situ versus Wh-movement. In addition, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the pronominal system in Malayalam, a language that violates the canonical binding conditions.

Contents:

Intro

Head Movement in Syntax

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations used in glosses

Abstract

Introduction

SOV via head movement

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The position of the subject

2.3 The left edge

2.4 The position of the verb

2.5 Alternative analyses

2.5.1 Gapping

2.5.2 Right node raising

2.5.3 Optionality of operations

2.6 Further evidence

2.6.1 V+Argument constituents

2.6.2 Negation6

2.6.3 Question-answer pairs

2.7 Addressing concerns about using co-ordination as a diagnostic tool

2.7.1 Some issues from Japanese

2.7.2 A case for RNR

2.8 Conclusion

aanu Construction

3.2 Exhaustivity by presupposition

3.2.1 Testing for exhaustivity

3.2.2 Emphasis, Focus and Exhaustivity

3.2.2.1 Focus

3.2.2.2 A focus construction

3.2.2.3 Exhaustivity and contrastive focus

Copula or Auxiliary

Jayaseelan (2001)

3.2.3 Exhaustivity - by assertion and by presupposition

3.1 Function

3.1.1 Sasse (1987)

3.1.2 An important difference

3.2.4 Movement to the pre-aanu position

3.2.5 Auxiliaries, Modals and Bipartite Information Structure

3.3 Clause structure

3.3.1 Monoclausal or Biclausal?

3.3.2 Position of the verb

3.3.3 Position of the auxiliary: Evidence from A-bar movement.

3.3.4 Structure

3.4 Summary

Wh in Malayalam - morphology

4.1 Wh and the pronominal paradigm

4.2 GoPro - pronominals and binding

4.2.1 Condition C

4.2.2 Condition B

4.2.3 Condition A and the emphatic marker tanne

4.2.4 Constraints on antecedents

4.3 Bound variable readings

4.4 Pro-noun, Pro-phi or Pro-DP?

4.5 Third person pronouns as inherently referential

4.6 Making an indeterminate pronoun

4.7 Wh = variable? Cole and Hermon (1998)

4.8 Summary

Wh in interrogative constructions.

5.1 Wh in the verb-final construction

5.2 Parallels between Wh and indefinites

5.3 Wh and quantificational force

5.3.1 Scrambling

5.3.2 Wh+suffix

5.4 A differing view: Jayaseelan (2001)

5.5 The aanu construction

5.6 Focus movement?

5.7 Wh movement in aanu construction is not triggered by a focus feature

5.8 Summary

Positioning the Wh

6.1 Wh as quantifier

6.2 Chinese is not Japanese

6.3 Cable (2010)

6.4 In search of Q

6.4.1 Morphology

6.4.2 Island effects: Tool for identifying the attachment site of Q

6.4.3 The nature of the relation between Q and Wh

6.5 Intervention effects

6.5.1 Verb-final constructions

6.5.2 aanu construction

6.5.3 A unified interpretation of the data

6.6 Conclusion

In-situ versus movement

7.1 Feature driven movement

7.2 Being in the right domain: An alternative based on locality

7.2.2 Verb-final construction

7.2.3 aanu construction

7.3 Summary

Conclusion

Afterword

9.1 Greenberg's universe: Implications

9.2 Towards a minimalist account

9.3 Kayne (1994)

9.4 Brody (2000)

9.5 Haider (1993, 2000, 2010, 2013)

9.5.1 Haiderian framework and Malayalam

9.5.2 Malayalam versus German

9.5.3 Verb movement in Malayalam as bootstrapping movement

9.5.4 Empirical motivation with a new take on thetic/categorical distinction

9.6 Summing Up

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027268143

9027268142

OCLC:

913514532