Get Elements of Grammar: Handbook of Generative Syntax PDF

By Liliane Haegeman

ISBN-10: 0792342976

ISBN-13: 9780792342977

The purpose of this guide is to supply a discussion board within which a few of the generative syntacticians whose paintings has had an effect on theoretical syntax during the last two decades are invited to provide their perspectives on a number of points of present syntactic idea.
the subsequent authors have contributed to the amount: Mark Baker, Michael Brody, Jane Grimshaw, James McCloskey, Jean-Yves Pollock, and Luigi Rizzi. each one contribution specializes in one particular element of the grammar. As a basic subject matter, the papers are interested by the query of the composition of the clause, i.e. what sort of elements the clause is made from, and the way those parts are placed jointly within the clause. The creation to the quantity presents the backdrop for the papers and highlights a number of the advancements that have happened in theoretical syntax within the final ten years.
Elements of Grammar is destined for an viewers of linguists operating within the generative framework.

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Kayne 1 984). The deriva­ tion is illustrated in (36). Following Larson ( 1 988) (see also Hale and Keyser 1 99 1 , 1 993), Baker assumes a layered VP structure, 14 with a functional projection AspP intervening between the VP-layers or VP-shells (see Travis 1 992, also section 4. 2 below). The AGENT argument is the specifier of the higher VP-shell. (36) IP � NP l' � VP � V' NP � I V � NP Asp' � VP � V' NP � V PP I Asp P' � gavev + Pj Maryk lv the meat lv P NP tj tk I I The verb, give, incorporates the empty preposition; the complement of the preposition, Mary, undergoes rightward movement to the specifier of a functional proj ection AspP.

Danish: Vikner 1 99 1 : 300) barnum drakky srudentinn bj6rinnj [vp stundun [vp lv tj ] ] in bar-the drank student-the beer-the sometimes h. " (Icelandic: Bobaljik 1 995: 1 1 8) Object shift depends on the movement of V (cf. Holmberg 1 986: 1 84): in (50a) kobte has moved out of the VP, in (50b) drakk has also moved out of the VP. The dependency of object shift and verb movement is known as Holmberg's generalization. In (47c) functional layers and thematic layers are kept separate. In such a structure, the object movement to [Spec, AgrOP] will have to cross the b ase position of the subject.

The girlsj will [ vp write a book] and [vp be awarded tj a prize for it] . According to the Internal Subject Hypothesis, the canonical subject position, [Spec, IP], is no longer the position to which the thematic role of the subject is assigned. e. that its thematic role is assigned by the verb itself within the V-projection. This assumption makes theta role assignment more uniform in that one can propose that all thematic roles are assigned in the domain of the theta role assigner. e. A-movement to [Spec, IP] .

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