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This book deals with the syntax of the free word order phenomenon
(scrambling) in a wide range of languages - in particular, German,
Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Tongan, and
Turkish - in some of which the phenomenon was previously unstudied.
In the past, the syntax of free word order phenomena has been
studied intensively with respect to its A- and A'-movement
properties and in connection with its semantic (undoing) effects.
The different articles in this volume offer new ways of analyzing
free word order under (i) minimalist assumptions, (ii) concerning
the typology of scrambling languages, (iii) with respect to the
question of how it is acquired by children, (iv) in connection with
its relatedness to information structural factors, and (v) with
respect to its consequences for a highly elaborated sentence
structure of the IP/VP domain. The articles that focus mainly on
the emprical aspects of free word order phenomena deal with the
properties and proper analysis of rightwards scrambling in Turkish,
with the A-/A'-nature and triggers for VSO-VOS alternations in
Tongan, as well as with left-branch extractions and NP-Split in
Slavic and its consequences for a typology of scrambling languages.
The articles that focus on theoretical aspects of scrambling deal
with questions concerning the motivatation of a derivation with
scrambling in a free word order language, such as whether
scrambling has to be analyzed as topicalization or focus movement.
Or assuming that scrambling is feature-driven, how the technical
details of this analysis are implemented in the grammar to avoid
unwarranted derivations, for example, derivations with
string-vacuous scrambling. A further important question that is
addressed is when scrambling is acquired in the development of the
grammar, and what the consequences are for the timing of the
acquisition of A- and A'-movement properties. This volume will be
most relevant to researchers and advanced students interested in
generative syntax, as well as typologists working on German,
Japanese, Slavic, Turkish, Dravidian and Austronesian languages. We
regret that due to a layout error the title of Miyagawa's article
on "EPP and semantically vacuous scrambling" is misrepresented in
the printed version of the book. You can download the article with
the corrected title here.
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
Over the past twenty years or so, the work on Japanese within
generative grammar has shifted from primarily using contemporary
theory to describe Japanese to contributing directly to general
theory, on top of producing extensive analyses of the language. The
Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics captures the excitement
that comes from answering the question, "What can Japanese say
about Universal Grammar?" Each of the eighteen chapters takes up a
topic in syntax, morphology, acquisition, processing, phonology, or
information structure, and, first of all, lays out the core data,
followed by critical discussion of the various approaches found in
the literature. Each chapter ends with a section on how the study
of the particular phenomenon in Japanese contributes to our
knowledge of general linguistic theory. This book will be useful to
students and scholars of linguistics who are interested in the
latest studies on one of the most extensively studied languages
within generative grammar.
Japanese syntax has been studied within the framework of generative
linguistics for nearly 50 years. But when it is studied in
comparison with other languages, it is mostly compared with
English. Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective seeks to fill a
gap in the literature by examining Japanese in comparison with
other Asian languages, including Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and
Dravidian and Indo-Aryan languages of India. By focusing on
Japanese and other Asian languages, the ten papers in this volume
(on topics such as ellipsis, postponing, and wh-questions) make a
unique contribution to the study of generative linguistics, and to
the Principles and Parameters theory in particular.
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