Parameters and Functional Heads
Essays in Comparative Syntax
1st Edition
Published on 25. April 1996
309 pages
978-0-19-535856-8 (ISBN)
Description
The essays collected in this volume, most previously unpublished, address a number of closely interconnected issues raised by the comparative syntax of functional heads within the Principles-and-Parameters approach. The general theory of head movement, the properties of derived structures created by incorporation, and the parameterization involved are the main theoretical foci. One major empirical area which is addressed concerns head movement in configurations involving certain kinds of operator-like elements, for example, the different manifestations of Verb Second phenomena in Wh and other constructions and the syntax of negative heads and specifiers. In addition, properties of functional heads and head movement in nominal and clausal structures and the causative construction are investigated.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. The Verb Always Leaves IP in V2 Clauses
- 2. Residual Verb Second and the Wh-Criterion
- 3. Complex Inversion in French
- 4. Negative Concord in West Flemish
- 5. On the Relevance of Tense for Sentential Negation
- 6. A Cross-Linguistic Study of Romance and Arbëresh Causatives
- 7. Hebrew Noun Phrases: Generalized Noun Raising
- 8. Three Kinds of Subject Clitics in Basso Polesano and the Theory of pro
