Syntactic effects of conjunctivist semantics : unifying movement and adjunction /
This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax is proposed, guided by an independently motivated hypothesis about the composition of neo-Davidsonian logical forms, in which there is no atomic movemen...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins,
2011.
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Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 170. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
- 1.1. Goals
- 1.2. Methodology
- 1.3. Structure of the book
- 1.4. Motivation: Why movement and adjunction?
- ch. 2 Background
- 2.1. Minimalist Grammars
- 2.1.1. early formulation
- 2.1.2. Eliminating redundancies in expressions
- 2.1.3. Movement as re-merge
- 2.1.4. remark on notation
- 2.2. Conjunctivist conception of neo-Davidsonian semantics
- 2.2.1. Neo-Davidsonian logical forms
- 2.2.2. Conjunctivist semantic composition
- 2.2.2.1. Pure function application
- 2.2.2.2. Function application with adjustment in certain configurations
- 2.2.2.3. Conjunction with adjustment in certain configurations
- 2.2.2.4. Comparisons and discussion
- 2.2.3. Conjunctivist details
- 2.2.4. Potential objections
- ch. 3 Arguments, adjuncts and Conjunctivist interpretation
- 3.1. Overview
- 3.2. Syntactic properties of arguments and adjuncts
- 3.2.1. Descriptive generalisations
- 3.2.2. Adjuncts in the MG formalism
- 3.3. Syntactic consequences of Conjunctivism
- 3.4. Conjunctivist interpretation of MG derivations
- 3.4.1. Getting started
- 3.4.2. Interpretation of arguments
- 3.4.3. Interpretation of adjuncts
- 3.5. Discussion
- 3.5.1. Potential objections
- 3.5.2. Use of the terms "spellout" and "phase"
- 3.5.3. role of syntactic features and semantic sorts
- 3.6. Counter-cyclic adjunction
- 3.6.1. MG implementations of counter-cyclic adjunction
- 3.6.2. Constraints on counter-cyclic adjunction
- 3.7. Conclusion
- 3.A. Appendix: Structures with vP shells
- ch. 4 Adjunct islands and freezing effects
- 4.1. Overview
- 4.2. Previous accounts of adjunct islands and freezing effects
- 4.2.1. Early work: Non-canonical structures
- 4.2.2.