Scrambling and the Survive Principle.
Title:
Scrambling and the Survive Principle.
Author:
Putnam, Michael T.
ISBN:
9789027291967
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (230 pages)
Contents:
Scrambling and the Survive Principle -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Dedication -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 The Minimalist Program -- 1.2 Enter Survive -- 1.3 Survive-Minimalism -- 1.4 Alternative Approaches to Scrambling -- 1.5 Scrambling and the Survive Principle -- 2. PROPERTIES OF SCRAMBLING -- 2.1 Strong vs. Weak Scrambling -- 2.2 Selectional Properties of Verbs -- 2.3 Scrambling is not NP-movement -- 2.4 Scrambling is not wh-movement -- 2.5 Scrambling is not Topicalization -- 2.6 Interim Conclusion -- 2.7 Freezing and Anti-Freezing Effects -- 2.8 Referentiality -- 2.9 Scope Bleeding -- 2.10 Prosody -- 2.11.1 XP-Scrambling is not driven by a Scope Feature -- 2.12 Conclusion -- 3. THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 3.1 Syntactic Featurehood -- 3.2 Prolific Domains and their Potential Role in Survive-minimalism -- 3.3 Eliminating XP-Adjunction -- 3.4 [+ Ref] in English, Pennsylvania German, and German and the Diachronic Loss of Scrambling -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4. THE PROSODIC SIDE OF SCRAMBLING -- 4.1 Introduction to the Prosody-Syntax Interface -- 4.2 Minimalist View of the Prosody-Syntax Interface -- 4.3 Permuted Word Orders in the Middle Field -- 4.4 The Coherent Infinitive Puzzle -- 4.5 Implications for the Model of the Grammar -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 5. CONCLUSION -- 5.1 [+ Ref] and the Design of the Middle Field -- 5.2 De re/de dicto distinction -- 5.3 A Sketch of Japanese and Russian Scrambling in Survive-Minimalism -- 5.4 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
Abstract:
Languages with free word orders pose daunting challenges to linguistic theory because they raise questions about the nature of grammatical strings. Ross, who coined the term Scrambling to refer to the relatively 'free' word orders found in Germanic languages (among others) notes that "… the problems involved in specifying exactly the subset of the strings which will be generated … are far too complicated for me to even mention here, let alone come to grips with" (1967:52). This book offers a radical re-analysis of middle field Scrambling. It argues that Scrambling is a concatenation effect, as described in Stroik's (1999, 2000, 2007) Survive analysis of minimalist syntax, driven by an interpretable referentiality feature [Ref] to the middle field, where syntactically encoded features for temporality and other world indices are checked. The purpose of this book is to investigate the syntactic properties of middle field Scrambling in synchronic West Germanic languages, and to explore, to what possible extent we can classify Scrambling as a 'syntactic phenomenon' within Survive-minimalist desiderata.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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