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Mapping the Left Periphery, the fifth volume in "The Cartography of
Syntactic Structures," is entirely devoted to the functional
articulation of the so-called complementizer system, the highest
part of sentence structure. The papers collected here identify, on
the basis of substantial empirical evidence, new atoms of
functional structure, which encode specific features that are
typically expressed in the left periphery. The volume also submits
the richly articulated CP structure to further crosslinguistic
checking. The research presented here has led to the identification
of new, important restrictions in the relative sequence of elements
appearing in the left periphery.
With contributions from African languages, Chinese, Hungarian,
Romance languages, and Italian dialects, Mapping the Left Periphery
will be of interest to syntacticians working on comparative syntax,
and more specifically on Romance grammar.
Ever since Chomsky's Barriers, functional heads have been the
privileged object of research in generative linguistics. But over
the last two decades, two rival approaches have developed. The
cartographic project, as represented by the collections in this
Oxford series, considers evidence for a functional head in one
language as evidence for it in universal grammar. On the other
hand, minimalist accounts tend to consider structural economy as
literally involving as few heads as possible. In the present
volume, some of the most influential linguists who have
participated in this long-lasting debate offer their recent work in
short, self contained case studies. The contributions cover all the
main layers of recently studied syntactic structure, including such
major areas of empirical research such as grammaticalization and
language change, standard and non-standard varieties, interface
issues, and morphosyntax. Functional Heads attempts to map aspects
of syntactic structure following the cartographic approach, and in
doing so demonstrate that the differences between the cartographic
approach and the minimalist approach are more apparent than
substantial.
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