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This book contains a selection of papers on issues of current
interest in syntax and morpho-syntax. Most topics pertain to the
question of the relation between word order and syntactic
structure. The discussion starts with a proposal of extending the
theory of relativization to reason clauses. It continues with the
analysis of the realization of focus in Basque and the discussion
of current views on the syntax of cleft constructions. Next, an
inquiry into the rigidity of sentence left-periphery is offered in
a cross-linguistic perspective. The two final contributions discuss
feature-free derivations in syntax applied to a single
morpho-syntactic problem, and the question of gradient
acceptability of Polish sentences featuring possessive items in the
context of the competition between their reflexive and pronominal
forms.
This volume presents a number of contributions to the 2013 Annual
Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society held in Szczecin, Poland,
October 26-28. The largest number of articles address issues
related to the (morpho)syntactic level of language structure, and
several papers describe results of recent research into different
aspects of Slavic linguistics as well. The current volume proves
conclusively that Slavic linguists make a remarkable contribution
to the development of various theoretical frameworks by analysing
linguistic evidence from richly inflected languages, which allows
them to test and modify contemporary theories and approaches based
on other types of data.
This is book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the
syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English,
German, Czech, Polish, and Russian), stemming from the Syntax
Session of the 2006 PLM conference in Poznan (Poland). Gisbert
Fanselow and Caroline Fery discuss lack of Superiority with German
movement; Gereon Muller links pro-drop to non-impoverished
inflectional morphology; Christopher Wilder deals with English
constructions with a directional locative and imperative; Adam
Bialy decomposes event structure; Katarzyna Sowka analyses the
semantics of German verbs of giving; Ewa Bulat takes a fresh look
at null subjects; Helen Trugman presents the distribution of
adnominal adjectives in Russian; Agnieszka Pysz explores the same
issue in Old English; Bozena Cetnarowska employs OT to describe
possessives in Polish; Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiassen and Pawel
Scheffler compare Polish and Italian reversible verbs; Radek Simik
describes different relative pronouns in Czech; Mojmir Docekal
discusses lack of WCO effects in Czech; Michael Moss argues for a
complex structure of the Polish clause, and Jacek Witkos
demonstrates that control-as-movement penetrates CPs.
One of the well-known properties of Slavic languages is that they
show subject-oriented reflexives. This book presents this
phenomenon in Polish in great empirical detail and provides its
up-to-date syntactic analysis, couched in the minimalist model of
grammar. The analysis accounts for the fact that not only
nominative subjects but also experiencers, both dative-marked and
some accusative-marked, function as antecedents for reflexive
elements. On the basis of empirical studies, the book explains why
dative experiencers bind both reflexive and pronominal possessives
in identical local configurations, while nominatve subjects bind
only reflexive possessives. The authors investigate both
long-distance binding relations in infinitives and contexts
internal to nominal phrases. Extensive references are made to
binding in other languages and alternative models.
This book discusses existential and possessive constructions in two
important, yet under-studied, language families, Slavic and
Finno-Ugric. Using data from the Slavic languages of Polish,
Belarusian and Russian, and the Finno-Ugric languages of Finnish,
Hungarian, Meadow Mari, Komi-Permiyak and Udmurt, as well as the
closely related Selkup of the Samoyedic family, the chapters in
this volume analyse predicative possession in current syntactic
terms. Seeking an answer to the theoretical question of whether
BE-possessives and HAVE-possessives are just accidental values of
the 'Possessive Parameter' or are intrinsically related, this book
takes a comparative approach to a whole range of syntactic and
semantic phenomena that appear in these constructions, including
the definiteness restriction, genitive of negation, person/number
agreement, argument structure and extractability. The individual
case studies can be easily integrated into the Principles &
Parameters framework in terms of parametric variation. Approaches
to Predicative Possession is an important contribution to our
understanding of predicative possession across languages, with
findings that can be fruitfully extended to other language
families. It is an equally useful source of information for
theoretical linguists, typologists, and graduate students of
linguistics.
This book discusses existential and possessive constructions in two
important, yet under-studied, language families, Slavic and
Finno-Ugric. Using data from the Slavic languages of Polish,
Belarusian and Russian, and the Finno-Ugric languages of Finnish,
Hungarian, Meadow Mari, Komi-Permiyak and Udmurt, as well as the
closely related Selkup of the Samoyedic family, the chapters in
this volume analyse predicative possession in current syntactic
terms. Seeking an answer to the theoretical question of whether
BE-possessives and HAVE-possessives are just accidental values of
the 'Possessive Parameter' or are intrinsically related, this book
takes a comparative approach to a whole range of syntactic and
semantic phenomena that appear in these constructions, including
the definiteness restriction, genitive of negation, person/number
agreement, argument structure and extractability. The individual
case studies can be easily integrated into the Principles &
Parameters framework in terms of parametric variation. Approaches
to Predicative Possession is an important contribution to our
understanding of predicative possession across languages, with
findings that can be fruitfully extended to other language
families. It is an equally useful source of information for
theoretical linguists, typologists, and graduate students of
linguistics.
Numeral constructions in Polish are known for their complex
morpho-syntax: in particular, depending on the type, case and
syntactic context, the numeral may show properties of the adjective
or the noun. This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of these
constructions set in the current generative-minimalist model of
grammar, with elements of nano-syntax. The authors pay particular
attention to a feature-based derivation of the numeral construction
in its different versions, including complex multiplicative
numerals, as well as its distribution in the clause. Numerals in
the subject position, with their peculiar case and agreement
features become a focal point of attention. Their properties
receive a principled account through the use of the case projection
sequence and disciplined movements within it.
This book addresses an old observation that complex interrogative
constituents moved to the left periphery of the clause display dual
properties with respect to principles of Chomsky's Binding Theory;
in some cases the displaced constituent feeds Principle C while in
others it does not. This account of the relationship between
syntactic movement and its undoing (Reconstruction) for the purpose
of establishing coreference relations involving pied-piped nominal
phrases is based on certain refinements of ideas proposed in Lebaux
(1988, 1992), Freidin (1986), Chomsky (1993) and Safir (1999). We
assume that differences between Reconstruction (feeding of
Principle C) and the anti-Reconstruction effects (amelioration of
Principle C) result from two processes: the point of introduction
of a given category into the phrase marker and vehicle change of
Safir (1999). The former factor distinguishes between arguments and
adjuncts, while the latter replaces a name embedded in an overtly
moved interrogative phrase with its pronominal correlate.
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