Phrasal and clausal architecture : syntactic derivation and interpretation : in honor of Joseph E. Emonds /

The present collection includes papers that address a wide range of syntactic phenomena. In some, the authors discuss such major syntactic properties as clausal architecture, syntactic labels and derivation, and the nature of features and their role with respect to movement, agreement, and event-rel...

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Other Authors: Karimi, Simin, Samiian, Vida, Wilkins, Wendy K., Emonds, Joseph E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 101.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Phrasal and clausal architecture
  • Restructuring and clausal architecture in Kannada*
  • The position of adverbials*
  • Bare, generic, mass, and referential Arabic DPs*
  • The possessor raising construction and the interpretation of the subject*
  • Syntactic labels and their derivations
  • Separating ``Focus movement'' from Focus
  • In search of phases*
  • Wh-movement, interpretation, and optionality in Persian*
  • Structure preservingness, internal Merge, and the strict locality of triads
  • Using description to teach (about) prescription*
  • `More complicated and hence, rarer'
  • Prescriptive grammar
  • The syntax of valuation and the interpretability of features*
  • Linear sequencing strategies or UG-defined hierarchical structures in L2 acquisition?
  • Minimalism vs. Organic Syntax
  • Location and locality
  • Conceptual space*
  • `Adjunct theta-roles' and the configurational determination of roles*.