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Explaining syntax : representations, structures, and computation /
This book brings together Peter Culicover's most important observations on the nature of syntax and its place within the architecture of language. Over four decades he has sought to understand the mental system in which linguistic expressions are processed. This has led him to re-formulate the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Prologue. The Simpler Syntax Hypothesis (2006)""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 Two views on the relation between syntax and semantics""; ""1.3 Mainstream syntactic structures compared with Simpler Syntax""; ""1.4 Application to Bare Argument Ellipsis""; ""1.5 Some other cases where Fregean compositionality does not hold""; ""1.5.1 Metonymy""; ""1.5.2 Sound + motion construction""; ""1.5.3 Beneficiary dative construction""; ""1.6 Choosing between the two approaches""; ""1.7 Rules of grammar are stored pieces of structure""; ""1.8 Conclusion""
- ""Part I. Representations""""2 OM-sentences: on the derivation of sentences with systematically unspecifiable interpretations (1972)""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 On OM-sentences""; ""2.3 What can a consequential OM-sentence mean?""; ""2.4 Some proposals for derivation""; ""2.5 The incongruence reading of and-OM-sentences""; ""2.6 Rhetorical OM-sentences and the incongruence reading""; ""2.7 Summary""; ""3 On the coherence of syntactic descriptions (1973)""; ""3.1 Rules for tags""; ""3.2 Orderings""; ""3.3 Neg-contraction""; ""3.4 More orderings""; ""3.5 Emphatic tags""
- ""3.6 Some implications""""3.7 The impossibility of collapsing tag rules""; ""3.8 Similarity""; ""3.9 Capturing similarity""; ""3.10 Definitions""; ""3.11 Coherence""; ""3.12 Towards a general notion of similarity""; ""4 Stress and focus in English (1983)""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Prosodic structure""; ""4.3 Assignment of focus""; ""4.4 The interpretation of focus""; ""4.5 Summary and review""; ""5 Control, PRO, and the Projection Principle (1992)""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 A theory of predication""; ""5.3 Arguments against syntactic PRO""
- ""5.4 Arguments of Koster and May (1981) for syntactic PRO""""5.5 Comparison with the Projection Principle""; ""5.6 Conclusion""; ""6 Negative curiosities (1982)""; ""6.1 Introduction""; ""6.2 Tags: the polarity facts""; ""6.3 Any""; ""6.4 More curiosities""; ""6.5 Conclusion""; ""Part II. Structures""; ""7 Deriving dependent right adjuncts in English (1997)""; ""7.1 Introduction""; ""7.2 Properties of extraposition constructions""; ""7.3 The Complement Principle""; ""7.4 Extraposition is not rightward movement""; ""7.5 Leftward movement""; ""7.6 HNPS and PTI""; ""7.7 Conclusion""
- ""8 Topicalization, inversion, and complementizers in English (1992)""""8.1 Introduction""; ""8.2 Two landing sites""; ""8.3 Additional evidence""; ""8.4 Extension to focus""; ""8.5 Summary""; ""9 The Adverb Effect: evidence against ECP accounts of the that-t effect (1992)""; ""9.1 The Adverb Effect""; ""9.2 Other complementizers""; ""9.3 Parasitic gaps""; ""9.4 Summary""; ""10 Stylistic Inversion in English: a reconsideration (2001)""; ""10.1 Introduction""; ""10.2 PP is a subject""; ""10.3 Light and heavy inversion""; ""10.4 Conclusion""; ""Part III. Computation""