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The Edginess of Silence - A Study on Chain Linearization (Hardcover)
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The Edginess of Silence - A Study on Chain Linearization (Hardcover)
Series: Studia grammatica
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Natural language differs from artificial ones in having the
"displacement property," allowing expressions to "move" from one
position to another in the sentence. The mapping from syntax to
phonology, therefore, must include rules specifying how objects
created by movement are pronounced, or in technical jargon, how
chains are linearized. One of these rules is Copy Deletion. The
present study investigates the structural description of Copy
Deletion. Specifically, it proposes a phrase geometric constraint
on its application. The proposal is corroborated by empirical
arguments based on distributional and interpretational facts
concerning predicate clefts, NP-Splits, and head ordering patterns.
The data are drawn from languages of different types and families
including Chinese, English, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Norwegian,
Swedish, and Vietnamese. The book, thus, contributes to our
understanding of a crucial property of natural language and should
be of relevance to readers who are interested in the
cross-linguistic approach to Universal Grammar research.
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