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1 online resource |
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Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today ; v. 170 |
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 170.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.1. Goals -- 1.2. Methodology -- 1.3. Structure of the book -- 1.4. Motivation: Why movement and adjunction? -- ch. 2 Background -- 2.1. Minimalist Grammars -- 2.1.1. early formulation -- 2.1.2. Eliminating redundancies in expressions -- 2.1.3. Movement as re-merge -- 2.1.4. remark on notation -- 2.2. Conjunctivist conception of neo-Davidsonian semantics -- 2.2.1. Neo-Davidsonian logical forms -- 2.2.2. Conjunctivist semantic composition -- 2.2.2.1. Pure function application -- 2.2.2.2. Function application with adjustment in certain configurations -- 2.2.2.3. Conjunction with adjustment in certain configurations -- 2.2.2.4. Comparisons and discussion -- 2.2.3. Conjunctivist details -- 2.2.4. Potential objections -- ch. 3 Arguments, adjuncts and Conjunctivist interpretation -- 3.1. Overview -- 3.2. Syntactic properties of arguments and adjuncts -- 3.2.1. Descriptive generalisations -- 3.2.2. Adjuncts in the MG formalism -- 3.3. Syntactic consequences of Conjunctivism -- 3.4. Conjunctivist interpretation of MG derivations -- 3.4.1. Getting started -- 3.4.2. Interpretation of arguments -- 3.4.3. Interpretation of adjuncts -- 3.5. Discussion -- 3.5.1. Potential objections -- 3.5.2. Use of the terms "spellout" and "phase" -- 3.5.3. role of syntactic features and semantic sorts -- 3.6. Counter-cyclic adjunction -- 3.6.1. MG implementations of counter-cyclic adjunction -- 3.6.2. Constraints on counter-cyclic adjunction -- 3.7. Conclusion -- 3.A. Appendix: Structures with vP shells -- ch. 4 Adjunct islands and freezing effects -- 4.1. Overview -- 4.2. Previous accounts of adjunct islands and freezing effects -- 4.2.1. Early work: Non-canonical structures -- 4.2.2 |
| Summary |
This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax is proposed, guided by an independently motivated hypothesis about the composition of neo-Davidsonian logical forms, in which there is no atomic movement operation and no atomic adjunction operation. The terms 'movement' and 'adjunction' serve only as convenient labels for certain combinations of other, primitive operations, and as a result the system derives non-trivial predictions about how movement and adjunction should interact; in particular, it yields natural explanatory accounts of the constituency of adjunction structures, the possibility of counter-cyclic attachment, and the prohibitions on extraction from adjoined domains (adjunct islands) and from moved domains (freezing effects). This work serves as a case study in deriving explanations for syntactic patterns from a restrictive theory of semantic composition, and in using an explicit grammatical framework to inform rigourous minimalist theorising |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Semantics.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Conjunctions.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adjuncts.
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semantics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adjuncts
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Conjunctions
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Semantics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010050510 |
| ISBN |
9789027287328 |
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9027287325 |
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1283174960 |
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9781283174961 |
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9786613174963 |
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6613174963 |
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