The ziggurat of grammar in honor of Ur Shlonsky edited by Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci, Andrew Nevins

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baunaz, Lena, editor.

Bocci, Giuliano, editor.

Nevins, Andrew, editor.

Shlonsky, Ur, honoree.

Series:

Language faculty and beyond v. 20

Language faculty and beyond 1877-6531 volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Grammars.

Language and languages.

Genre:

Festschriften

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company [2025]

Summary:

"What is the extent to which various grammatical levels - from features through subjecthood through cleft layers - reuse and reemploy certain structure-building operations? In this volume, organized in terms of successively expanding domains, leading contributors report research into the complex edifice of grammatical structure of human language that one might liken to the terraced layers of a ziggurat. Following the heuristics of reverse-engineering, the chapters in this collection draw on theoretical and experimental analyses from Taqbaylit Berber to the sign language Cena, from the Romance language family to the Semitic family, in a kind to 'reverse-architecture' effort to understand the modes that compose multiple planes of morphosyntax. The volume, presented to honor the work and influence of Ur Shlonsky within linguistics, is aimed at a readership accessible to advanced undergraduates as well as specialists placed at distinct vantage points" -- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Section 1. Features

Featural mismatches and the comprehension of relative clauses in French: comparing gender and number / Anamaria Bentea, Adriana Belletti, Luigi Rizzi & Stephanie Durrleman

De-gendering the plural markers of modern Hebrew / Noam Faust

Conjunction agreement as semantic agreement / Isabelle Charnavel & Dominique Sportiche

The French suffix -el /-al / Radwa Fathi & Jean Lowenstamm

Section 2. empty elements

Empty categories as copy and no transfer: non-obligatory control and partial null subjects / Maria Rita Manzini & Anna Roussou

Nǎlǐ nàlǐ

ça, c'est quoi? a comparative note on that and where / Thomas Leu

Licensing parasitic gaps without movement: evidence from hebrew resumptive pronouns / Ivy Sichel & Rajesh Bhatt

Section 3. subjects

Styling the characters, setting the scene: subject omission in agatha christie / Liliane Haegeman & Lieven Danckaert

Deriving osv order in cena, an emerging sign language of brazil / Diane Stoianov & Andrew Nevins

Subjects and situations in copular sentences / Valentina Bianchi

Sentential anaphors in french: an insight in the syntax of subject clauses: ce que "ça" dit / Frédérique Berthelot

Null subjects in Greek: issues on structure and interpretation / Vassilios Spyropoulos

Section 4. extended dp layer

The dp-internal origin of datives / Richard S. Kayne

The cartography of quantity nouns in italian / Anna Cardinaletti & Giuliana Giusti

Dims a dozen / Hagit Borer

Arabic comparatives, gradation, and variation / Abdelkader Fassi Fehri

Section 5. clefts, focus, and predication

What's in a copula? on the lightness of being / Isabelle Roy

Specificational vs. predicational wh-clefted questions in arabic. evidence for two (strong/weak) PRONs: identity vs. predication / Ouras Aljani & Hamida Demirdache

Insights into post-verbal argument reordering in Hebrew and Italian / Cristiano Chesi & Francesco Beltrame

Existentials: the view from Afroasiatic / Jamal Ouhalla

The focalizing ser construction in Brazilian Portuguese / Sandra Quarezemin

Anwa lbaṛ g ara nemlil? Taqbaylit pp-interrogatives / Sabrina Bendjaballah & Martin Haiden

Section 6. Cp layer and wh

'frankly', and the syntacticization of speech acts / Gugliemo Cinque

On 'why' in brazilian portuguese / Simone Guesser, Flore Kedochim & Raquel Sousa

Cartography, movement and reordering of arguments: a quantitative computational study / Giuseppe Samo

Long wh-questions in french: negation doesn't intervene where? / Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci & Ur Shlonsky

Some notes on the modal existential wh construction in two romance languages / Gabriela Soare & Christopher Laenzlinger

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Print version Ziggurat of grammar

ISBN:

9789027244307

9027244308

OCLC:

1553041310

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