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This volume draws together fourteen previously published papers
which explore the nature of mental grammar through a formal,
generative approach. The book begins by outlining the development
of formal grammar in the last fifty years, with a particular focus
on the work of Noam Chomsky, and moves into an examination of a
diverse set of phenomena in various languages that shed light on
theory and model construction. Many of the papers focus on
comparisons between English and Norwegian, highlighting the
importance of comparative approaches to the study of language. With
a comprehensive collection of papers that demonstrate the richness
of formal approaches, this volume is key reading for students and
scholars interested in the study of grammar.
This volume draws together fourteen previously published papers
which explore the nature of mental grammar through a formal,
generative approach. The book begins by outlining the development
of formal grammar in the last fifty years, with a particular focus
on the work of Noam Chomsky, and moves into an examination of a
diverse set of phenomena in various languages that shed light on
theory and model construction. Many of the papers focus on
comparisons between English and Norwegian, highlighting the
importance of comparative approaches to the study of language. With
a comprehensive collection of papers that demonstrate the richness
of formal approaches, this volume is key reading for students and
scholars interested in the study of grammar.
While Verb-third (V3) patterns have long been studied in
verb-second (V2) languages, a similar pattern in which an initial
adverbial constituent is resumed by a clause-internal element has
been much less studied. The latter is referred to as 'adverbial
resumption' and it also has the character of being a V3 phenomenon.
Therefore, the pattern is labelled 'adverbial V3 resumption' or
'adverbial V3.' The present volume is an up-to-date overview of the
subject featuring case studies of individual languages that display
certain patterns of V3. The authors discuss this pattern in
relation to several different languages, addressing among other
things issues of microvariation in contemporary varieties and
diachronic variation. The book covers Medieval Romance, Old
Italian, Old English, diachronic and synchronic varieties of
German, varieties of Flemish and Dutch, Icelandic, varieties of
Swedish, and Norwegian. Through analyses of adverbial resumptive V3
orders in Germanic and Romance, the contributors explore the nature
of V2: while adverbial resumption only occurs in varieties that
observe the V2 rule, in itself it leads to apparent violations of
linear V2 order, namely to V3 orders. Adverbial Resumption in Verb
Second Languages provides comparative analyses which touch upon the
nature of sentence-external versus sentence-internal adjuncts, and
the fine-grained architecture of the clausal functional hierarchy.
These papers constitute a valuable contribution to the
theoretically important topics of V2 and V3 that will be of
interest to comparative linguists, Germanic linguistics, Romance
linguists, and anyone working on formal grammar in general.
This book focuses on the relationship between syntax and meaning.
Terje Lohndal's core claim is that it is possible to create a
transparent mapping from syntax to logical form such that each
syntactic Spell-Out domain directly corresponds to a conjunct at
logical form. The argument focuses on two domains of grammar -
phrase structure and argument structure - and brings together two
independently established but seemingly unconnected hypotheses:
that verbs do not require arguments, and that specifiers are not
required by the grammar. Following the introduction, the second
chapter looks in detail at the separation of the verb from its
thematic arguments, and presents data from argument structure,
reciprocals, and adjectival passives, while the third examines the
claim that specifiers do not play a role as the target of various
grammatical operations. Chapter 4 then brings these arguments
together and proposes a syntax that maps transparently onto logical
forms where all thematic arguments are severed from the verb.
Moreover, the broader consequences of this approach are outlined in
terms of Spell-Out, movement, linearization, thematic uniqueness,
and agreement. The book closes with an examination of the
relationship between grammatical and conceptual meaning, and a
detailed discussion of the nature of compositionality.
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