
Directionality and Logical Form
On the Scope of Focusing Particles and Wh-in-situ
Josef Bayer(Author)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 30. November 1995
Book
Hardback
XVI, 328 pages
978-0-7923-3752-2 (ISBN)
Description
Directionality and Logical Form
provides a detailed treatment of the syntax of focusing particles, such as
only
and
even
in a cross-linguistic perspective. The derivation of logical forms is shown to be under the control, not only of the ECP and subjacency, but also of directionality of government and the particular word-order parameter that holds in a given language: head-final languages systematically disallow certain derivations or readings that are available in head-initial languages. The reason is that heads that deviate in their selection properties from canonical head-finality project a directionality barrier. Various strategies are explored by which this barrier can be circumvented. Although the theory is developed mainly on the basis of the head position in German, it can be directly used to explain constraints on the scope of Wh-in-situ in Bengali and closely related languages.
Audience: Syntacticians and semanticists interested in parametric variation, as well as linguists working on Germanic and/or Indo-Aryan languages.
Audience: Syntacticians and semanticists interested in parametric variation, as well as linguists working on Germanic and/or Indo-Aryan languages.
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Series
Edition
1996 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
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XVI, 328 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
688 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-3752-2 (9780792337522)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-1272-9
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Content
1: Selected Earlier Work on the Syntax and Semantics of Focusing Particles.- 2: Movement to a Scope Position: Quantificational and Scalar Interpretation.- 3: Focusing Particles and Quantifiers in Pre- and Postpositional Phrases.- 4: Focusing Particles and Quantifiers in Determiner and Noun Phrases.- 5: Focusing Particles and Quantifiers in Adjectival Phrases.- 6: The Verb Phrase, Clausal Complements and Extraposition.- 7: Complementation and the Scope of Wh in Bengali.- References.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.