Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780198889472 |
| ISBN10: | 019888947X |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 432 pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
Category:
Rich Descriptions and Simple Explanations in Morphosyntax and Language Acquisition
Series:
Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax;
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 27 June 2024
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Short description:
This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters analyze a wide range of phenomena, and relate them to fundamental questions of universality, linguistic variation, and learnability.
Long description:
This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters explore the debate between Cartography and Minimalism: on the one hand, the need for detailed and articulated descriptions of the clausal architecture, and on the other, the endeavor to reduce the theoretical apparatus to fundamental computational mechanisms.
The first part of the book begins with a reflection on the goals of modern linguistic theory, and investigates the principles of human language, in an effort to subsume the regularities of particular grammars under a small set of morphosyntactic and semantic primitives. The second part examines the clausal structure - both the CP-layer and the IP-layer - from a comparative perspective, which directly relates to the fundamental questions of universality, linguistic variation, and learnability addressed in the first part of the book. With chapters written by world-leading linguists who analyze a wide range of old and new phenomena, the volume will be a valuable resource for researchers and students interested in theoretical linguistics and language development.
The first part of the book begins with a reflection on the goals of modern linguistic theory, and investigates the principles of human language, in an effort to subsume the regularities of particular grammars under a small set of morphosyntactic and semantic primitives. The second part examines the clausal structure - both the CP-layer and the IP-layer - from a comparative perspective, which directly relates to the fundamental questions of universality, linguistic variation, and learnability addressed in the first part of the book. With chapters written by world-leading linguists who analyze a wide range of old and new phenomena, the volume will be a valuable resource for researchers and students interested in theoretical linguistics and language development.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Genuine explanation
Four types of quantifiers at the interface between syntax and logic
The explanatory power of the subjacency principle
The Strict Cycle Condition: 'One cycle to rule them all'
A more demanding approach to suppletion
Truncation vs reduction in development
Recategorizing C
Wh-phrases as genuine focus operators
Some (but not all) movement types systematically violate islands
Comprehension and production of sentences with V-C movement in orally-trained children with hearing impairment
Micro-variation in imperatives: Enclisis and mesoclisis in Italian and Arbëresh varieties
The syntax of Romance clitics and selective clitic climbing
The Latin passive morpheme /-r/ and its morphosyntactic similarity with Romance SI
Subject ellipsis and impersonal pronouns
Some basic properties of Mandarin resultative clusters: A measure of progress
From Bantu subject-object reversal to inverted copular sentences: How ?low? focalization and smuggling circumvent Relative Minimality violations
Genuine explanation
Four types of quantifiers at the interface between syntax and logic
The explanatory power of the subjacency principle
The Strict Cycle Condition: 'One cycle to rule them all'
A more demanding approach to suppletion
Truncation vs reduction in development
Recategorizing C
Wh-phrases as genuine focus operators
Some (but not all) movement types systematically violate islands
Comprehension and production of sentences with V-C movement in orally-trained children with hearing impairment
Micro-variation in imperatives: Enclisis and mesoclisis in Italian and Arbëresh varieties
The syntax of Romance clitics and selective clitic climbing
The Latin passive morpheme /-r/ and its morphosyntactic similarity with Romance SI
Subject ellipsis and impersonal pronouns
Some basic properties of Mandarin resultative clusters: A measure of progress
From Bantu subject-object reversal to inverted copular sentences: How ?low? focalization and smuggling circumvent Relative Minimality violations