Syntactic architecture and its consequences
Inside syntax
1st Edition
Published on 28. May 2021
Book
Hardback
456 pages
978-3-98554-004-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that "rethink" existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between descriptive and explanatory adequacy which has long animated generative linguistics and which continues to grow thanks to the increasing amount and diversity of data available to us.
The chapters develop novel insights into a number of core syntactic phenomena, such as the structure of and variation in diathesis, alignment types, case and agreement splits, and the syntax of null elements. Many of these contributions show the influence of research by Ian Roberts and collaborators and they provide varied perspectives on current research in synchronic and diachronic comparative syntax.
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
1040 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-98554-004-4 (9783985540044)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
Sten Vikner is professor in English linguistics at Aarhus University in Denmark. He also works on Danish, German and the other Germanic languages, mainly on syntax but also on morphology and semantics. The topics include verb positions, object shift, the left edge of the clause, and reflexives. His work has appeared in e.g. the Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Language, The Linguistic Review, Studia Linguistica, as well as in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax and The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics.
Editor
András Bárány is a post-doctoral researcher at Bielefeld University. He has previously worked at Leiden University, SOAS University of London and at the Linguistic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research deals with the cross-linguistic variation in morphosyntax and its limits, in particular in the domains of possession and the interaction of case and agreement. His work includes Person, case, and agreement (OUP, 2017) and articles in Glossa, Linguistic Inquiry and Studies in Language.
Theresa Biberauer is a Principal Research Associate in the Computer Science Department at the University of Cambridge, and also holds extraordinary professorships at Stellenbosch University and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Her research interests lie in synchronic and diachronic comparative syntax, Germanic linguistics, language acquisition and learnability, and language contact. Her major publications include Parametric Variation (CUP, 2010), The Final-over-Final Condition (MIT Press, 2017), and articles in Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Theoretical Linguistics, Journal of Semantics, and English Language and Linguistics.
Jamie Douglas is a former research associate at the University of Cambridge. His PhD focused on the syntax of relative clauses, and his interests include syntactic theory, long-distance dependencies, linguistic typology and the evolution of language. His work has been published in Glossa and English Language and Linguistics.