Overview

This book presents new work on how Merge and formal features, two basic factors in the Minimalist Program, should determine the syntactic computation of natural language. Merge combines simpler objects into more complex ones. Formal features establish dependencies within objects. In this book leading scholars examine the intricate ways in which these two factors interact to generate well-formed derivations in natural language. It is divided into two parts concerned with formal features and interpretable features - a subset of formal features. The authors combine grammatical theory with the analysis of data drawn from a wide range of languages, both in the adult grammar and in first language acquisition. The mechanisms at work in linguistic computation are considered in relation to a variety of linguistic phenomena, including A-binding, A'-dependencies and reconstruction, agreement, word order, adjuncts, pronouns and complementizers.

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Author:   José M. Brucart (, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ,  Anna Gavarró (, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ,  Jaume Solà (, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.738kg
ISBN:  

9780199553266

ISBN 10:   0199553262
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   29 January 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Merge and features: a minimalist introduction Part I Formal Features 2: Fredrik Heinat: Probing Phrases, Pronouns, and Binding 3: Patricia Schneider-Zioga: Wh-agreement and Bounded Unbounded Movement 4: Klaus Abels and Ad Neeleman: Universal 20 Without the LCA 5: Carson Schütze: What it Means (not) to Know (number) Agreement 6: Jill de Villiers and Sandile Gxilishe: Number Agreement in English and Xhosa 7: Karen Miller and Cristina Schmitt: Variable vs. Consistent Input: Comparehension of Plural Morphology and Verbal Agreement in Children 8: Fabrizio Arosio, Flavia Adani, and M. Teresa Guasti: Processing Grammatical Features by Italian Children Part II Interpretable Features 9: Nicolas Guilliot and Nouman Malkawi: When Movement Fails to Reconstruct 10: Franc Marusic: If Non-simultaneous Spell-out Exists, This is What it can Explain 11: Joseph Edmonds: What Adjuncts Tell us About Case, Agreement, and Syntax in General 12: György Rákosi: The Diversity of Dative Experiencers 13: Aniko Csirmaz: Homogeneity and Flexibility in Temporal Modification 14: heather Lee Taylor: The Syntactically Well-behaved Comparative Correlative 15: Richard Kayne: Some Silent First Person Plurals 16: Thomas Leu: From Greek to Germanic: Poly-(*in)-definiteness and Weak/Strong Adjectival Inflection 17: Alan Munn, Xiaofei Zhang, and Cristina Schmitt: Acquisition of Plurality in a Language Without Plurality

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José M. Brucart is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and has published extensively on the Spanish grammar. He is author of La sintaxis (with M.L. Hernanz) and La elipsis. Aspectos de la elisión sintáctica en español and has also contributed to the main reference grammars of Spanish and Catalan. Anna Gavarró obtained her PhD at the University of Edinburgh and icurrently lectures on linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has published mostly on Romance and her work includes articles in Language Acquisition, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, and Brain and Language, and a chapter in the reference grammar of Catalan. Jaume Solà has been an associate professor of Catalan Philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 1996. His main research interests are inflection and word order (as two crucial aspects of language variation), within the Principles and Parameters-Minimalism framework. He is editor-in-chief of Catalan Journal of Linguistics.

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