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Functional Structure from Top to Toe - The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 9 (Hardcover)
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Functional Structure from Top to Toe - The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 9 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
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This volume consists of nine original chapters on central issues in
theoretical syntax, all written by distinguished authors who have
made major contributions to generative syntax, plus an introductory
chapter by the editor. Dedicated to Tarald Taraldsen, the
collection reflects the diverse energies that have pushed the
cartographic program forward over the last decade. The first three
papers deal with subject extraction, the que/qui alternation, and
relative clause formation. Luigi Rizzi presents arguments that
subjects are 'criterial' and that subject extraction is highly
restricted. Hilda Koopman and Dominique Sportiche concur,
suggesting that what appears to be subject extraction in French has
been misanalyzed, and involves a relative structure. Adriana
Belletti shows that children avoid using object relatives,
preferring subject relatives, even when it requires passivization.
The fourth paper, by Ian Roberts, analyzes the loss of pro-drop in
the history of French and Brazilian Portuguese. The papers by M.
Rita Manzini and Richard S. Kayne both present novel analyses of
complementizers, suggesting that they are essentially nominal,
rather than verbal. The final three papers address the relationship
of morphology to syntax. The first two argue for a syntactic
approach to word formation, Guglielmo Cinque's in a typological
context and Anders Holmberg's within an analysis of Finnish focus
constructions. The final paper, by Edwin Williams, presents an
argument for the limitations of the syntactic approach to word
formation.
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