By Guglielmo Cinque, Richard S. Kayne
ISBN-10: 0195136500
ISBN-13: 9780195136500
ISBN-10: 1423719980
ISBN-13: 9781423719984
Comparability throughout formal languages is a vital a part of formal linguistics. The examine of closely-related forms has confirmed super precious in illuminating family among cross-linguistic syntactic changes that will in a different way look unrelated, and has helped to spot the middle ideas of common Grammar. Comparative reports have grown to the purpose the place a reference paintings is required to comprehensively clarify the nation of the sector and makes its effects extra widely recognized, and this guide fulfills that desire. Its twenty-one commissioned chapters serve features: they supply a basic and theoretical advent to comparative syntax, its method, and its relation to different domain names on linguistic inquiry; and so they offer a scientific collection of the simplest comparative paintings being performed this day on these language teams and households the place vast development has been achieved.
With top-notch editors and participants from world wide, this quantity can be a necessary source for students and scholars in formal linguistics.
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33 Another example of interest is the following. English has:34 (70) somebody famous, something heavy whereas French has: (71) quelqu’un de ce´le`bre (some-one of famous) (72) quelque chose de lourd (some thing of heavy) with an obligatory preposition de: (73) *quelqu’un ce´le`bre (74) *quelque chose lourd that English cannot have: (75) *somebody of famous, *something of heavy That (70) and (71)/(72) are essentially the same phenomenon (as suggested to me by Hans Bennis), modulo the preposition, is reinforced by the fact that both languages fail to allow this with fully lexical nouns: (76) *Some linguist famous just walked in.
Unfortunately, some good number of linguists disagree with you. (229) *Mary has eaten some good deal of sugar. It may be that for that long to precede the determiner in that long a book, the determiner must not only be unstressed, as Perlmutter had the indefinite article, but also be cliticized, in the strong sense of occupying some special clitic position, one available to a/an, but not to any other determiner. In which case, we could say that the same holds (as the result of some UG requirement) of the a/an of a good number, a good deal—that is, it must occupy a special clitic position—and then add that French un (generally) lacks that option (for reasons to be discovered).
Thus the French/English contrast concerning extraposition with adjectives will plausibly follow from general principles of licensing (again, in the spirit of the ECP43), interacting with the parametric difference between a pronounced and an unpronounced preposition. 44 A perhaps related case in which French has de and English has no visible preposition is the case of quantity words. The closest French counterparts of: (101) too few tables (102) so few tables are: (103) trop peu de tables (too peu of tables) (104) si peu de tables (so .
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