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Selectional Theory Of Adjunct Control

by Idan Landau

145,75€ + 10% CARD

 A novel, systematic theory of adjunct control, explaining how and why adjuncts shift between obligatory and nonobligatory control.Control in adjuncts involves a complex interaction of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, which so far has resisted systematic analysis. In this book, Idan Landau offers the first comprehensive account of adjunct control. Extending the framework developed in his earlier book, A Two-Tiered Theory of Control, Landau analyzes ten different types of adjuncts and shows that they fall into two categories: those displaying strict obligatory control (OC) and those alternating between OC and nonobligatory control (NOC). He explains how and why adjuncts shift between OC and NOC, unifying their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties.Landau shows that the split between the two types of adjuncts reflects a fundamental distinction in the semantic type of the adjunct: property (OC) or proposition (NOC), a distinction independently detectable by the adjunct''s tolerance to a lexical subject. After presenting a fully compositional account of controlled adjuncts, Landau tests and confirms the specific configurational predictions for each type of adjunct. He describes the interplay between OC and NOC in terms of general principles of competition—both within the grammar and outside of it, in the pragmatics and in the processing module—shedding new light on classical puzzles in the acquisition of adjunct control by children. Along the way, he addresses a range of empirical phenomena, including implicit arguments, event control, logophoricity, and topicality.
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Merge - Binarity In (Multidominant) Syntax

by Barbara Citko e Martina Gracanin-Yuksek

225,25€ + 10% CARD

 "An argument for a novel binarity constraint on merge, preventing syntactic movement from relating more than two distinct positions at one time"--
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Theory Of Indexical Shift - Meaning, Grammar, And Crosslinguistic Variation

by Amy Rose Deal

238,50€ + 10% CARD

 A comprehensive overview of the semantics and syntax of indexical shift that develops a constrained typology of the phenomenon across languages.The phenomenon of indexical shift—whereby indexicals embedded in speech or attitude reports draw their meaning from an attitude event rather than the utterance context—has been reported in languages spanning five continents and at least ten language families. In this book, Amy Rose Deal offers a comprehensive overview of the semantics and syntax of indexical shift and develops a constrained typology of the phenomenon across languages—a picture of variation that is both rich enough to capture the known facts and restrictive enough to make predictions about currently unknown data points. Deal draws on studies of indexical shift in a broad range of languages, focusing especially on Nez Perce, Zazaki, Korean, and Uyghur. Using new data from fieldwork, Deal presents an in-depth case study of indexical shift in the Nez Perce language, and uses this evidence to propose a novel theoretical approach based on the meaning and grammar of shifty operators. She explores several dimensions of variation related to indexical shift across and within languages, showing how the cross-linguistic patterns can be explained (and constrained) within the shifty operator view. Finally, she contrasts indexical shift with surface-similar phenomena, clarifying the controls needed to test the constrained typology on new data sets.
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Probes And Their Horizons

by Stefan Keine

291,50€ + 10% CARD

 A comprehensive theory of selective opacity effects-configurations in which syntactic domains are opaque to some processes but transparent to others-within a Minimalist framework.
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Composing Questions

by Hadas Kotek

225,25€ + 10% CARD

 An investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert wh-movement.
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Cardinals - The Syntax And Semantics Of Cardinal-Containing Expressions

by Ora Matushansky e Tania Ionin

265,00€ + 10% CARD

 An argument that complex cardinals are not extra-linguistic but built using standard syntax and standard principles of semantic composition.
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Features Of Person - From The Inventory Of Persons To Their Morphological Realization

by Ad Neeleman e Peter Ackema

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 A proposal that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a "person space" at the heart of every pronominal expression.
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Situations And Syntactic Structures - Rethinking Auxiliaries And Order In English

by Gillian Catriona Ramchand

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 A new theory of the syntax-semantics interface that relies on hierarchical orderings in language, with the English auxiliary system as its empirical ground.
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Final-Over-Final Condition - A Syntactic Universal

by Anders Holmberg, Ian Roberts, Michelle Sheehan e Theresa Biberauer

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages.
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Contiguity Theory

by Norvin Richards

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 An argument that the word order of a given language is largely predictable from independently observable facts about its phonology and morphology.
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Classical Neg Raising - An Essay On The Syntax Of Negation

by Chris Collins e Paul M. Postal

198,75€ + 10% CARD

 An extended argument for a syntactic view of NEG raising with consequences for the syntax of negation and negative polarity items.
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Agreement And Its Failures

by Omer Preminger

98,05€ + 10% CARD

 A novel proposal regarding predicate-argument agreement that combines detailed empirical investigation with rigorous theoretical discussion.In this book, Omer Preminger investigates how the obligatory nature of predicate-argument agreement is enforced by the grammar. Preminger argues that an empirically adequate theory of predicate-argument agreement requires recourse to an operation, whose obligatoriness is a grammatical primitive not reducible to representational properties, but whose successful culmination is not enforced by the grammar. Preminger''s argument counters contemporary approaches that find the obligatoriness of predicate-argument agreement enforced through representational means. The most prominent of these is Chomsky''s "interpretability"-based proposal, in which the obligatoriness of predicate-argument agreement is enforced through derivational time bombs. Preminger presents an empirical argument against contemporary approaches that seek to derive the obligatory nature of predicate-argument agreement exclusively from derivational time bombs. He offers instead an alternative account based on the notion of obligatory operations better suited to the facts. The crucial data involves utterances that inescapably involve attempted-but-failed agreement and are nonetheless fully grammatical. Preminger combines a detailed empirical investigation of agreement phenomena in the Kichean (Mayan) languages, Zulu (Bantu), Basque, Icelandic, and French with an extensive and rigorous theoretical exploration of the far-reaching consequences of these data. The result is a novel proposal that has profound implications for the formalism that the theory of grammar uses to derive obligatory processes and properties.
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Russian Case Morphology And The Syntactic Categories

by David Pesetsky

169,60€ + 10% CARD

 A proposal for a radical new view of case morphology, supported by a detailed investigation of some of the thorniest topics in Russian grammar.
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Asymmetry In Morphology

by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 A ground-breaking work in the Minimalist program proposes that asymmetry is a hard-wired property of morphological relations and that this property is part of the Language Faculty; with many cross-linguistic examples.
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Provocative Syntax

by Phil Branigan

159,00€ + 10% CARD

 A new theory of syntactic movement within a Chomskyan framework.
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Agreement And Head Movement - Clitics, Incorporation, And Defective Goals

by Ian Roberts

159,00€ + 10% CARD

 An argument that, contrary to Chomsky, head-movement is part of the narrow syntax.
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Localism Versus Globalism In Morphology And Phonology

by David Embick

185,50€ + 10% CARD

 An argument that patterns of allomorphy reveal that morphology and phonology behave in a way that provides evidence for a Localist theory of grammar.
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Syntax Of Adjectives - A Comparative Study

by Guglielmo Cinque

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 A new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence.
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Arguments As Relations

by John Bowers

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 A radically new approach to argument structure in the minimalist program.
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Introducing Arguments

by Liina Pylkkanen

90,10€ + 10% CARD

 A compositional theory of verbal argument structure that explores how "noncore" arguments are introduced into argument structures and examines cross-linguistic variation in introducing arguments.
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Phrasal Movement And Its Kin

by David Pesetsky

66,25€ + 10% CARD

 This study investigates the types of movement and movement-like relations that link positions in syntactic structure.
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Linearization Of Chains And Sideward Movement

by Jairo Nunes

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 This highly original monograph treats movement operations within the Minimalist Program. Jairo Nunes argues that traces are not grammatical primitives and that their properties follow from deeper features of the system, and, in particular, that the phonetic realization of traces is determined by linearization computations coupled with economy conditions regarding deletion. He proposes a version of the copy theory of movement according to which movement must be construed as a description of the interaction of the independent operations Copy, Merge, Form Chain, and Chain Reduction. Empirical evidence to support this claim includes instances of "sideward movement" between subtrees in a derivation. According to this analysis, the linearization of chains in the phonological component constrains sideward movement so that it is possible to account for standard properties of multiple gap constructions, including parasitic gap and ATB constructions, without construction-specific operations or principles that are not independently motivated. Theoretical linguists will find Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement of great interest both theoretically and empirically. The version of the copy theory of movement proposed by Nunes will stir debate and shape future research in the field.
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Locality In Vowel Harmony

by Andrew Nevins

159,00€ + 10% CARD

 A view of the locality conditions on vowel harmony, aligning empirical phenomena within phonology with the principles of the Minimalist program.
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Japanese Morphophonemics - Markedness And Word Structure

by Armin Mester e Junko Ito

198,75€ + 10% CARD

 The first book-length treatment of Japanese phonology from the perspective of Optimality Theory.
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