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This survey explores interactions between syntax and discourse,
through a case study of patterns of extraction from coordinate
structures. The theoretical breadth of the volume makes it the most
complete account of extraction from coordinate structures to date:
at first glance, it appears to be a syntactic matter, but the
survey raises theoretical and empirical questions not just for
syntax, but also across semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
structure. Rather than promoting a single analysis, Daniel
Altshuler and Robert Truswell outline reasonable hypotheses that
allow theoretical conclusions to be deducted from empirical facts.
The theoretical conclusions show that coordinate structures have
the potential to discriminate between current syntactic theories,
and to inform work on the interfaces between syntax, semantics,
pragmatics, and discourse. In many cases, however, the necessary
empirical work has not yet been carried out, and too much of the
literature revolves around the same handful of primarily English
examples. The volume offers a starting point for further research
on extraction from coordinate structures, particularly in
understudied languages, and provides a guide to how to tease out
the theoretical implications of empirical findings.
This survey explores interactions between syntax and discourse,
through a case study of patterns of extraction from coordinate
structures. The theoretical breadth of the volume makes it the most
complete account of extraction from coordinate structures to date:
at first glance, it appears to be a syntactic matter, but the
survey raises theoretical and empirical questions not just for
syntax, but also across semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
structure. Rather than promoting a single analysis, Daniel
Altshuler and Robert Truswell outline reasonable hypotheses that
allow theoretical conclusions to be deducted from empirical facts.
The theoretical conclusions show that coordinate structures have
the potential to discriminate between current syntactic theories,
and to inform work on the interfaces between syntax, semantics,
pragmatics, and discourse. In many cases, however, the necessary
empirical work has not yet been carried out, and too much of the
literature revolves around the same handful of primarily English
examples. The volume offers a starting point for further research
on extraction from coordinate structures, particularly in
understudied languages, and provides a guide to how to tease out
the theoretical implications of empirical findings.
In this book, leading linguists explore the empirical scope of
syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which
both syntactic and nonsyntactic analyses initially appear
plausible. Exploring the nature of such phenomena permits a deeper
understanding of the nature of syntax and of neighbouring modules
and their interaction. The book contributes to both traditional
work in generative syntax and to the recent emphasis placed on
questions related to the interfaces. The major topics covered
include areas of current intensive research within the Minimalist
Program and syntactic theory more generally, such as constraints on
scope and binding relations, information-structural effects on
syntactic structure, the structure of words and idioms, argument-
and event-structural alternations, and the nature of the relations
between syntactic, semantic, and phonological representations.
After the editors' introduction, the volume is organized into four
thematic sections: architectures; syntax and information structure;
syntax and the lexicon; and lexical items at the interfaces. The
volume is of interest to syntactic theorists, as well as linguists
and cognitive scientists working in neighbouring disciplines such
as lexical and compositional semantics, pragmatics and discourse
structure, and morphophonology, and anyone with an interest in the
modular architecture of the language faculty.
This book examines some knotty problems in natural language. These
typically involve questions where the sense or the grammaticality
of an utterance teeters on or over the edge of acceptability among
native speakers. The phenomena in question have been examined
within syntactic theory for over two decades with no wholly
satisfactory outcome. Dr Truswell broadens the scope of the enquiry
to the interface between syntactic structure and other, indirectly
related, cognitive, and semantic structures such as aspect,
agentivity, and presupposition. Uniting work from philosophical,
cognitive and linguistic perspectives, he develops a model of the
internal structure of events as perceptual and cognitive units. He
deploys the model to explain and predict the acceptability of
particular formulations. He considers the individuation of events
in the light of the model and provides a novel account of patterns
of question formation. He shows that these patterns throw new light
on central claims of Chomsky's biolinguistic minimalist program and
Jackendoff's parallel architecture theory of mind and language.
This is work at the cutting edge of linguistic theory, catholic in
its theoretical scope, open to insights from cognate fields, and
illustrated with examples from a wide range of languages. It will
interest philosophers, semanticists and cognitive scientists
concerned with topics like events, agentivity, and planning, as
well as linguists studying syntax or the syntax-semantics
interface.
This book examines some knotty problems in natural language. These
typically involve questions where the sense or the grammaticality
of an utterance teeters on or over the edge of acceptability among
native speakers. The phenomena in question have been examined
within syntactic theory for over two decades with no wholly
satisfactory outcome. Dr Truswell broadens the scope of the enquiry
to the interface between syntactic structure and other, indirectly
related, cognitive, and semantic structures such as aspect,
agentivity, and presupposition. Uniting work from philosophical,
cognitive and linguistic perspectives, he develops a model of the
internal structure of events as perceptual and cognitive units. He
deploys the model to explain and predict the acceptability of
particular formulations. He considers the individuation of events
in the light of the model and provides a novel account of patterns
of question formation. He shows that these patterns throw new light
on central claims of Chomsky's biolinguistic minimalist program and
Jackendoff's parallel architecture theory of mind and language.
This is work at the cutting edge of linguistic theory, catholic in
its theoretical scope, open to insights from cognate fields, and
illustrated with examples from a wide range of languages. It will
interest philosophers, semanticists and cognitive scientists
concerned with topics like events, agentivity, and planning, as
well as linguists studying syntax or the syntax-semantics
interface.
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