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Syntactic dependencies are often non-local: They can involve two
positions in a syntactic structure whose correspondence cannot be
captured by invoking concepts like minimal clause or
predicate/argument structure. Relevant phenomena include
long-distance movement, long-distance reflexivization,
long-distance agreement, control, non-local deletion, long-distance
case assignment, consecutio temporum, extended scope of negation,
and semantic binding of pronouns. A recurring strategy pursued in
many contemporary syntactic theories is to model cases of non-local
dependencies in a strictly local way, by successively passing on
the relevant information in small domains of syntactic structures.
The present volume brings together eighteen articles that
investigate non-local dependencies in movement, agreement, binding,
scope, and deletion constructions from different theoretical
backgrounds (among them versions of the Minimalist Program, HPSG,
and Categorial Grammar), and based on evidence from a variety of
typologically distinct languages. This way, advantages and
disadvantages of local treatments of non-local dependencies become
evident. Furthermore, it turns out that local analyses of non-local
phenomena developed in different syntactic theories (spanning the
derivational/declarative divide) often may not only share identical
research questions but also rely on identical research strategies.
Incomplete Category Fronting is a detailed investigation of the
syntax of incomplete category fronting in German, carried out from
a cross-linguistic perspective. The study presents a wealth of
empirical evidence involving unbound traces created by remnant
topicalization, wh-movement, scrambling, left dislocation, and
extraposition. Four characteristic properties of remnant movement
are identified that pose severe problems for a representational
movement theory. It is argued that these properties can be
fruitfully addressed on the basis of Chomsky's minimalist program,
and that they follow from a derivational movement theory that
incorporates the Barriers Condition, the Strict Cycle Condition,
Fewest Steps, Last Resort, and the Minimal Link Condition but
completely dispenses with surface filters. Incomplete Category
Fronting provides an empirical underpinning for the minimalist
program and presents a powerful argument for a derivational theory
of grammar. Audience: Incomplete Category Fronting will interest
all linguists working on theoretical syntax, Germanic syntax or the
syntax-semantics interface.
Explorations in Nominal Inflection is a collection of new articles
that focus on nominal inflection markers in different languages.
The studies are concerned with the morphological inventories of
markers, their syntactic distribution, and, importantly, the
interaction between the two. As a result, the contributions shed
new light on the morphology/syntax interface, and on the role of
morpho-syntactic features in mediating between the two components.
Issues that feature prominently throughout are inflection class,
case, gender, number, animacy, syncretism, iconicity, agreement,
the status of paradigms, the nature of morpho-syntactic features,
and the structure of nominal projections. Recurrent analytical
tools involve the concepts of competition (optimality,
specificity), underspecification, and economy, in various
theoretical frameworks.James P. Blevins: Inflection Classes and
EconomyBernd Wiese: Categories and Paradigms. On Underspecification
in Russian Declension
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the
main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This
branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is
concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of
linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into
the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high
quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues.
The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from
syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to
studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a
proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert
Incomplete Category Fronting is a detailed investigation of the
syntax of incomplete category fronting in German, carried out from
a cross-linguistic perspective. The study presents a wealth of
empirical evidence involving unbound traces created by remnant
topicalization, wh-movement, scrambling, left dislocation, and
extraposition. Four characteristic properties of remnant movement
are identified that pose severe problems for a representational
movement theory. It is argued that these properties can be
fruitfully addressed on the basis of Chomsky's minimalist program,
and that they follow from a derivational movement theory that
incorporates the Barriers Condition, the Strict Cycle Condition,
Fewest Steps, Last Resort, and the Minimal Link Condition but
completely dispenses with surface filters. Incomplete Category
Fronting provides an empirical underpinning for the minimalist
program and presents a powerful argument for a derivational theory
of grammar. Audience: Incomplete Category Fronting will interest
all linguists working on theoretical syntax, Germanic syntax or the
syntax-semantics interface.
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the
main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This
branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is
concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of
linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into
the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high
quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues.
The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from
syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to
studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a
proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert
Harmonic serialism is an active research programme in phonology and
syntax but has so far not been pursued in morphology. This book
delivers a proof of concept: It shows that harmonic serialism can
be substantiated as a viable approach to inflectional morphology,
covering roughly the same ground as standard models like
Distributed Morphology or Paradigm Function Morphology.
Furthermore, based on empirical evidence from a variety of
typologically different languages, Inflectional Morphology in
Harmonic Serialism offers a fresh perspective on the composition of
inflected words that is made possible by a strictly derivational
orientation incorporating repeated optimization procedures. This
gives rise to new and convincing solutions to some recalcitrant
problems in inflectional morphology, related to phenomena like
affix order, extended exponence, disjunctive blocking, non-local
stem allomorphy, *ABA patterns, impoverishment effects, deponency,
and paradigm gaps. The book introduces harmonic serialism from
scratch and develops morphological analyses against the background
of applications of the theory in phonology and syntax. It will be
of use to students and scholars interested in morphology,
phonology, syntax, and grammatical theory more generally.
The volume assembles studies on the morphology and syntax of
reflexive verbs from a variety of theoretical perspectives
(including minimalism and optimality theory), with reference to a
number of languages, and focusing on different syntactic domains
(clause, NP, AcI). As such, it presents a cross section of
present-day research on the field in question.
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