Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing
Title | Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Rothstein |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2020-01-13 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004373195 |
Explores licensing theory and its implications for a theory of syntax. This book brings a series of papers which focus on developing a constrained set of licensing mechanisms relating elements in a syntactic representation, and on the different properties of lexical and functional heads as licenses of complements and specifiers.
Licensing Principles and Phrase Structure
Title | Licensing Principles and Phrase Structure PDF eBook |
Author | Yang Soon Kim |
Publisher | |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 1990 |
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Licensing Principles and Phrase Structure
Title | Licensing Principles and Phrase Structure PDF eBook |
Author | Yang Soon Kim |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Phrase structure grammar |
ISBN |
Noun Phrase Licensing
Title | Noun Phrase Licensing PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey T. Runner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2013-08-21 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1136768394 |
This book examines the syntax of direct object noun phrases in English within the Principles and Parameters, specifically Chomsky's Minimalist Program, approach to generative grammar. The main focus is on the phrase structural positions of object noun phrases at the various levels of representation, and secondarily on the relationship between structural position and semantic interpretation. Supported by a variety of empirical and conceptual arguments, the central claim of the book is that direct object noun phrases in English surface in a VP-external position; a secondary claim is that while in the overt syntax direct objects appear VP-externally, their position at the level of logical form varies depending on interpretation. Four basic constructions are studied: simple transitive clauses, transitive clauses with prepositional objects, the "raising to object" construction, and the "double object" construction. This book will be of interest to scholars in the areas of phrase structure syntax, English and Germanic syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and all areas of generative approaches to syntax.
Licensing Theory and French Parasitic Gaps
Title | Licensing Theory and French Parasitic Gaps PDF eBook |
Author | C.R. Tellier |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9401135967 |
The study of parasitic gap constructions (e. g. these are the reports; which you corrected _; before filing _i) has been a very lively area of research over the last decade. The impetus behind this lies mostly in the margi nality of the construction. Clearly, the intuitions that native speakers have about parasitic gaps do not stem from direct instruction; hence, it is reasoned, such knowledge follows from the restrictions imposed by Universal Grammar. Furthermore, it is unlikely that any principle of Universal Grammar refers specifically to parasitic gap constructions; their syntactic and interpretive properties must instead follow entirely from independent principles. My own interest in the phenomenon was sparked a few years ago, when, in a novel, I came across a sentence like the following: Chait un armateur; dont Ie prestige _; reposait largement sur la fortune _;, 'he was a shipbuilder of whom the prestige was largely based on the wealth'. As the indices indicate, the interpretation of the French sentence is un ambiguous: both the prestige and the wealth necessarily pertain to the same individual. In this aspect, the sentence much resembles the English parasitic gap construction above: in the former case too, the comple ments of correct and file must corefer with the noun phrase heading the relative (the reports). Yet, there is an important difference between the two constructions. Verbs like correct and file subcategorize their com plements.
Licensing in Syntax and Phonology
Title | Licensing in Syntax and Phonology PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Gussmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN |
Phrase Structure in Natural Language
Title | Phrase Structure in Natural Language PDF eBook |
Author | M.J. Speas |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9400920458 |