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Nominal Syntax at the Interfaces - A Comparative Analysis of Languages With Articles (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Nominal Syntax at the Interfaces - A Comparative Analysis of Languages With Articles (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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This volume offers a new perspective on the syntax of nominal
expressions in various European languages, arguing that articles do
not directly and biunivocally realise semantic definiteness. The
first two chapters provide an accessible introduction to recent
developments in generative syntax, namely the cartographic and
minimalist approaches, by focusing on the "imperfect" parallels
between clauses and nominal expressions. The third chapter shows
that feature sharing is not the result of a unique syntactic
process, but, rather, the consequence of Merge, which creates
syntactic structure instantiating two types of relation: Selection
and Modification. It argues for three different ways of
transferring features: Agreement allows for an argument (an
independent phase, selected by a head) to re-enter the computation
as part of the predicate of the new phase. It targets Person
features and is not involved in the feature sharing triggered by
modification. Concord copies the features of N (notably gender,
number and case, where this is present). It is the result of
Modification and can coexist with Agreement. Finally, Projection is
triggered by multiple internal mergers of the head, bundled with
all its interpretable and uninterpretable features, which may be
realized in different segments. The fourth chapter focuses on the
nature of determiners such as articles, demonstratives,
quantifiers, possessive adjectives and pronouns, personal pronouns
and proper names, and shows that only articles have the properties
to be attributed to "functional heads" because they are a segment
of a scattered nominal head. The rest of the volume is devoted to
the analysis of syntactic phenomena, such as double definiteness,
expletive articles, and weak and strong adjectival inflection, by
means of the proposal that (scattered) nominal or adjectival heads
concord with their modifiers. This approach reinterprets head
movement in a fashion that makes it compatible with minimalist
requirements, provides an explanation for the apparent optionality
of head movement, eliminates the typology of head movements by
adjunction or substitution, and gives an original answer to the
doubts raised about the legitimacy of the very notion of
"functional category".
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