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A Minimalist Approach to Scrambling - Evidence from Persian (Hardcover)
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A Minimalist Approach to Scrambling - Evidence from Persian (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
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This study addresses the problems scrambling langauges provide for
the existing syntactic theories by analyzing the interaction of
semantic and discourse functional factors with syntactic properties
of word order in this type of languages, and by discussing the
implications of this interaction for Universal Grammar. Three
interrelated goals are carefully followed in this work. The first
is to analyze the syntactic structure of Persian, a language which
exhibits free word order. With this analysis, the author has
accounted for the relative order of categorized expressions, the
motivation for their possible rearrangements, and the grammatical
results of those reorderings. In this respect, a broad range of
major syntactic phenomena, including object shift, Case, Extended
Projection Principle (EPP), binding, and scope interpretation of
quantifiers, interrogative phrases, adverbial phrases, and negative
elements are examined. This monograph is the first major
theoretical work ever published on Persian, and therefore fills the
existing gap by providing insight into the syntactic structure of
this language. The second goal is to connect these insights to
similar linguistic properties in languages in which scrambling
occurs (e.g. German, Dutch, Hindi, Russian, Japanese, and Korean),
and to provide a deeper understanding of this group of genetically
diverse, but typologically related languages. The final and
principal goal is to situate the results of this work within the
framework of the Minimalist Program (MP). The investigations in
this study indicate that scrambling is not an optional rule, and
that certain principles of MP, such as the Minimal Link Condition,
are only seemingly violated in these languages. Furthermore, it is
shown that careful analysis of scrambling with respect to binding
and scope relations, and a reanalysis of the properties of A and A'
movements, cast some doubts on the relevance of a typology of
movement in natural language.
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