Reconstruction Effects in Relative Clauses / Manfred Krifka, Mathias Schenner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krifka, Manfred, editor.

Schenner, Mathias, editor.

Series:

Studia grammatica ; 75.

Studia grammatica ; 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Relative clauses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Reconstruction (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter (A), [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Reconstruction effects in relative clauses are a class of phenomena where the external head of the relative clause seems to behave as if it occupied a position within the relative clause, as far as some commonly accepted principle of grammar is concerned. An often cited type of example is "The [relative of his] [which every man admires most] is his mother.", where the pronoun "his" in the relative head appears to be bound by the quantified noun phrase "every man" in the relative clause - although the latter does not c-command the former, which is commonly required for binding. Several solutions have been developed in various theoretical frameworks. One interesting aspect about reconstruction effects in relative clauses is that they can be used as a benchmark for competing theories of grammar: Which architecture of the syntax-semantics interface can provide the most satisfying explanation for these phenomena? This volume brings together researchers working in different frameworks but looking at the same set of empirical facts, enabling the reader to develop their own perspective on the perfect tradeoff between syntax and semantics in a theory of grammar.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

An introduction to reconstruction effects in relative clauses / Schenner, Mathias

A Direct Compositionality approach to Condition C effects under reconstruction and their exceptions / Krifka, Manfred

Relative reconstructions / Heycock, Caroline

A calculus for reconstruction and anti-reconstruction / Lechner, Winfried

Notes on stress reconstruction and syntactic reconstruction / Truckenbrodt, Hubert

A new version of the Matching Analysis of relative clauses / Salzmann, Martin

Idioms as evidence for the proper analysis of relative clauses / Webelhuth, Gert / Bargmann, Sascha / Götze, Christopher

Some notes on connectivity and predicational copular sentences / Romero, Maribel

Functional readings without type-shifted noun phrases / Heim, Irene

Deconstructing reconstruction / Jacobson, Pauline

Evaluation order, crossover, and reconstruction / Barker, Chris

Telescoping by continuations / Sternefeld, Wolfgang

Telescoping in relative clauses / Radó, Janina / Konietzko, Andreas / Sternefeld, Wolfgang

Intensional relative clauses and the semantics of variable objects / Moltmann, Friederike

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)

ISBN:

3-11-038077-3

3-05-009515-6

OCLC:

1078919335