Rouveret Aspects of Grammatical Architecture

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-62219-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 426 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Leading Linguists

This volume collects thirteen of the author’s previously published papers from the last 25 years which explore various aspects of grammatical architecture from a minimalist perspective. The book examines the structural architectures of phrases and clauses, clitics, and derivations, and draws on examples from a broad range of languages to demonstrate these principles in practice, including French, European Portuguese, Welsh, German, and English. The final section of the book highlights the author’s most recently published work, paving the way for future directions for further research on grammatical architecture from a minimalist perspective. Engaging with some of the central questions in minimalist syntax, this volume is a key resource for students and researchers in theoretical linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy of science, formal grammar, and syntax.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rouveret, Alain

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Phrasal and Clausal Architecture 1. Functional categories and agreement 2. Proxy categories in phrase structure theory 3. VSO word order in the Celtic languages 4. Bod in the present tense and in other tenses Part II: Clitics and Phrase Structure 5. Clitic placement, Focus and the Wackernagel position in European Portuguese 6. Cliticization as unselective Attract 7. Hallmarks of Portuguese syntax 8. Why are complement clitics difficult to master? Part III: The Architecture of Derivations 9. VP ellipsis, phases and the syntax of morphology 10. Some issues in the theory of resumption: a perspective on early and recent research 11. Computational and semantic aspects of resumption Part IV: The Architecture of Grammar 12. Intervention or phasal locality? Two ways of being local in French causative constructions 13. The expletive puzzle

Über Autor(innen)

Alain Rouveret is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics at the Université Paris-Diderot in Paris, France. He has also taught in Paris-Saint-Denis, as well as at Ecole Normale Supérieure, at Ecole Polytechnique, at EHESS and at GLOW Summer Schools in Salzburg and Gerona. His main research interests are in comparative syntax, morphology, formal grammar and linguistic typology. Besides many articles in international journals, he has published Syntaxe du gallois: principes généraux et typologie (1994) and Arguments minimalistes. Une présentation du Programme Minimaliste de Noam Chomsky (2015).