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A Feature-Based Syntax of Functional Categories - The Structure, Acquisition and Specific Impairment of Functional Systems (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
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A Feature-Based Syntax of Functional Categories - The Structure, Acquisition and Specific Impairment of Functional Systems (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
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This book develops ideas of Minimalist syntax to derive functional
categories from the partially-ordered features expressed by
functional elements, thereby dispensing with functional categories
as primitives of the theory. It generalizes attempts to do this in
the literature, while drawing significant empirical consequences
from general constraints formulated to block overgeneration. The
resulting theory of the construction of functional categories is
applied to various problems in syntactic analysis and comparative
and historical syntax, including variation across Germanic
languages in patterns of verb-second and in the occurrence of
expletive subjects in existential constructions, verb positions in
Old and Middle English, problems regarding the placement of clitic
pronouns in Romance languages and Modern Greek, and some previously
unexamined structures of reduced clause coordination in colloquial
English. Facts from early stages of the acquisition of syntax are
shown to follow from the mechanisms for the projection of
functional features as functional categories, exercised before all
of the features for a language, along with their ordering and
feature co-occurrence restrictions, have been acquired. It is
observed that child acquisition of functional elements exhibits
successive developmental stages, each characterized by the number
of clausal functional elements which can be represented together
within a clause. This, and facts regarding the lag in development
of functional categories by children with specific language
impairment, are shown to be not entirely reducible to limitations
in working memory or processing capacity, but to depend in part on
the growth of representational resources for the projection of
functional categories.
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