Specifiers
Minimalist Approaches
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 March 1999
- ISBN 9780198238133
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 241x161x25 mm
- Weight 656 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 figures 0
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Short description:
An outstanding collection of papers, unique in its kind, from the world's leading experts in syntactic theory. This volume explores the concept of specifier, one of the fundamental concepts in the theory of phrase structure, within the latest syntactic framework: Chomsky's Minimalist Programme. A large number of languages, from English to Zuni, and from Modern Greek to Japanese and Arabic, are covered by the various contributions.
MoreLong description:
By the late 1980s, Government and Binding Theory - which was central to almost all research in generative grammar - threatened to become as large and as intricate as the language it described. To counter this, Noam Chomsky introduced a minimalist program with the aim of making explanations of language as simple and general as possible. It has since gained widespread (if not quite universal) acceptance, to the extent that the most recent first-year textbook in syntax (Radford, CUP, 1997) is based on it.
One of the areas subjected to this minimalist scrutiny has been phrase structure, the fundamental basis of grammar. This book focuses on the most controversial area of phrase structure, the notion of specifiera notion encompassing the traditional categories of subjects, possessors, determiners, auxiliaries, and adjuncts. It examines what place the notion has in the new theory and how the projection of specifiers is to be eliminated or extended.
The contributors (prominent American, British, and European scholars) draw on empirical, theoretical research in cross-linguistic phenomena and first and second language acquisition. The substantial introductory chapter provides an up-to-date account of minimalist syntactic theory and a critical evaluation of the notion of specifier within it.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Specifiers in Generative Grammar
Specifiers as Secondary Heads
Without Specifiers
Filling and Licensing Multiple Specifiers
EPP without Spec, IP
Spec-Head Agreement and Case in Arabice
The Specifier-Adjunct Distinction
The wh effect and Multiple Wh-fronting
Nominal and Verbal Projections
Dependencies and Extractions
Movement to Specifiers
Wh and the Locality of Feature Checking
Specifiers and Finiteness
Spec-Head Relationships in Child Swedish
Some Specs on Specs in L2 Acquistion
