Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1. Aims and approach
  • 2. Elements of Minimalist syntax
  • 3. Feature-based projection of functional categories
  • Chapter 2: A feature-based derivation of functional heads
  • 1. The syntactic utility of functional heads
  • 2. Derived functional heads
  • 2.1. Derived functional heads in the literature
  • 2.2. Feature matrices and constraints
  • 2.3. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3: Germanic verb-second and expletive subjects
  • 1. Patterns of Germanic verb-second
  • 2. Expletive subjects
  • 3. Verb-second and the Top domain in Old English and Middle English3.1. Early English verb-second
  • 3.2. A feature-based account of Old and Middle English verb-second
  • 3.3. Middle English dialects and language change
  • 3.4. Streamlining accounts of Old English word order below the TOPIC domain
  • Notes
  • Chapter 4: Aspects of clitic placement and clitic climbing
  • 1. Head movement accounts of clitic placement
  • 2. Verb and clitic movement
  • 2.1. Mechanics of clitic placement in Italian and Spanish
  • 2.2. Clitic placement in French
  • 2.3. Imperatives
  • 2.4. The orders of multiple object clitics in Modern Greek3. Problems with clitic climbing in a feature-based syntax
  • 4. A feature-based approach to clitic climbing
  • 4.1. Restructuring
  • 4.2. Mechanics of clitic climbing with feature-derived functional categories
  • 4.3. Some properties of clitic climbing
  • 4.4. Other accounts of clitic climbing
  • 4.5. Clitic climbing out of finite clauses in Salentino
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5: Tenseless clauses and coordination
  • 1. Accusative subject conjuncts
  • 1.1. Properties of the accusative subject conjunct construction1.2. The structure of coordination in the ASC construction
  • 1.3. The internal structure of the ASC clause
  • 2. Small clause complements of perception verbs
  • 2.1. The ASC-like structure of “Bare Infinitiveâ€? complements
  • 2.2. Higginbothamâ€?s (1983) account
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6: The acquisition of functional features
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Preliminaries
  • 2.1. Feature projection versus functional category adjunction
  • 2.2. The present study
  • 3. Results
  • 3.1. Peter
  • 3.2. Nina
  • 3.3. Naomi4. Discussion and conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 7: The acquisition of adult functional categories
  • 1. Theories and predictions
  • 1.1. Strong continuity accounts
  • 1.2. Radfordâ€?s maturational theory
  • 1.3. Induction
  • 1.4. Bottom-up structure building accounts
  • 1.5. Feature-based theory of functional categories
  • 1.6. Processing capacity, working memory, and phrase structure complexity
  • 2. Procedures
  • 2.1. Counting functional categories
  • 2.2. Size normalization and nominative subject filtering