Current issues in syntactic cartography a crosslinguistic perspective

Current issues in syntactic cartography a crosslinguistic perspective

"This book illustrates recent developments in cartographic studies, seen from a comparative perspective. The different chapters explore various aspects of theoretical and descriptive syntax, bearing on such topics as selection, causativity, binding, light verb constructions, the structure of th...

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Other Authors: Si, Fuzhen, Rizzi, Luigi, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 267.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: On the comparative basis of cartographic studies
  • 1. General background
  • 2. The growth of the empirical coverage and the impact of the study of African languages
  • 3. The importance of comparative studies and the cartography of East Asian languages
  • 4. The contributions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Section I. Theoretical and descriptive issues in syntactic cartography: A cross-linguistic perspective
  • Chapter 2. Cartography and selection in subjunctives and interrogatives
  • 1. The problem
  • 2. Structure of the paper
  • 3. The selection of (subjunctive) mood
  • 4. Selection and agreement in indirect questions
  • 4.1 Wh interrogatives
  • 4.2 Yes-No interrogatives
  • 5. FORCE in root clauses
  • 6. Summary and conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 3. The syntax and information-structural semantics of negative inversion in English and their implications for the theory of focus
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Previous studies
  • 2.1 Haegeman (2000, 2012)
  • 2.2 Leonetti & Escandell-Vidal (2009)
  • 3. Some empirical and conceptual problems: Treatment of polarity focus fronting
  • 4. Proposal
  • 4.1 Cruschina's (2011) two-layered focus hypothesis
  • 4.2 Application to NI
  • 5. Supportive evidence
  • 5.1 Focus-verb adjacency
  • 5.2 Non-contrastive use of NI
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
  • Chapter 4. Invariant die and adverbial resumption in the Ghent dialect
  • 1. Scope and goals of the chapter
  • 1.1 The V2 constraint
  • 1.2 Resumptive V3
  • 1.3 Resumption in the Ghent dialect
  • 1.4 Goals
  • 2. Adverbial resumption: Specialized resumption vs. generalized resumption
  • 2.1 Specialized resumptives
  • 2.2 Generalized resumptives
  • 2.3 Specialized vs. generalized resumptives
  • 3. Invariant die in the Ghent dialect
  • 3.1 The initial adverbial constituent
  • 3.2 Discourse function of the resumptive patterns
  • 3.3 The resumptive constituent
  • 3.4 Summary and outline of a derivation
  • 4. The cartography of invariant die resumption
  • 4.1 The ingredients
  • 4.2 The options
  • 4.3 Invariant die as a left peripheral expletive
  • 4.4 Invariant die as a left peripheral head
  • 4.5 Enriching the Wolfe/Poletto hypothesis: An articulated left periphery
  • 5. Summary
  • References
  • Chapter 5. Uncovering the left periphery of Etruscan: Some theoretical insights
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Cartography and syntacticisation as formal tools
  • 2.1 Cartography and reordering
  • 2.2 Linguistic variability in activating criterial positions
  • 3. Reorderings in Etruscan
  • 3.1 Some notes on the syntax of Etruscan
  • 3.2 "Speaking objects" and reorderings: A criterial approach
  • 4. Uncovering further portions of the left periphery: Relatives and imperatives
  • 5. Conclusions

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