
Towards a Derivational Syntax : Survive-minimalism.
Title:
Towards a Derivational Syntax : Survive-minimalism.
Author:
Putnam, Michael T.
ISBN:
9789027289414
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (280 pages)
Contents:
Towards a Derivational Syntax -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- PART I Introduction -- Traveling without moving -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The computational necessity of displacement operations -- 2.1. Move/internal merge -- 2.2 The PIC and transfer -- 3. Returning to conceptual necessity: Survive-minimalism -- 4. Scope and content of this volume -- References -- The numeration in Survive-minimalism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Selecting a NUMeration -- 3. Locating the lexicon -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- PART II Studies of movement phenomena and structure building in Survive-minimalism -- Long-distance agreement without Probe-Goal relations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why long-distance agreement is a challenge -- 3. Two alternatives -- 3.1 Late evacuation -- 3.2 Lower-right corner chains -- 4. Summary -- References -- Musings on the left periphery in West Germanic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. German Left Dislocation and the EPP -- 2.1 Grewendorf (2002) -- 2.2 Frey (2004a) -- 2.3 Interim conclusions -- 3. German left dislocation and 'Survive Minimalism' -- 3.1 A semantic/pragmatic trigger for the 'Remerge' of D-pronouns -- 3.1.1 [Ref] as a syntactic feature -- 3.1.2 The referentiality of D-pronouns -- 3.2 A unified treatment of GLD structures -- 3.2.1 GLD and V2 -- 3.2.2 GLD in embedded V2 clauses -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Tense, finiteness and the survive principle -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Finiteness -- 2. A different approach -- 3. Temporal referential chains -- 4. The finiteness distinction and its consequences -- 4.1 A crash-proof derivation of temporal chains -- 4.2 Verb second and verbal inflection -- 4.3 More on the morphological expression of finiteness -- 4.4 Auxiliaries and main verbs -- 4.5 English sentential negation -- 5. Conclusion -- References.
When grammars collide -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Minimalist grammars and CS -- 2.1 Enter survive -- 3. Internal structure of DP -- 4. Lexicon-syntax mapping issues -- 5. Linearization issues -- 5.1 Determiner position -- 5.2 Adjective position -- 6. Conclusions and future research -- References -- Using the Survive principle for deriving coordinate (a)symmetries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some background -- 2.1. Assumptions about Merge, structure building and coordinate (a)symmetry -- 2.2 Further data indicating coordinate symmetry -- 3. Phase-based accounts of coordinate symmetry -- 3.1. Some assumptions of Phase Theory -- 3.2 Citko (2005): alternative way to merge SOs -- 4. The Survive principle and its application to coordinate (a)symmetry -- 4.1. The Survive model and its advantages -- 4.2 Working memory and CHL in the derivation of coordinate structures -- 4.3 Link! -- 4.4 Coordinate asymmetry in the Survive model -- 5. Evaluation and further research -- References -- Part III Convert and non-movement operations in Survive-minimalism -- Syntactic identity in Survive-minimalism -- 1. Syntactic identity in ellipsis -- 1.1 Two perspectives on ellipsis -- 1.2 Deletion vs the pro-form theory -- 1.2.1 Island sensitivity -- 1.2.2 Voice mismatches -- 1.2.3 Conclusions -- 2. On syntactic identity -- 2.1 Derivational identity vs data -- 2.1.1 The reality of the verb phrase -- 2.1.2 A paradox? -- 3. (Survive) minimalism -- 3.1 Derivations -- 3.2 Features -- 3.3 Lexical items -- 3.4 Syntactic objects -- 3.5 Merge -- 3.6 Move -- 3.6.1 Eliminating movement -- 4. Passivization in English -- 4.1 The passive -- 5. Satisfying the DIH -- 5.1 Hypothetical reasoning -- 5.2 Antecedent-contained deletion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Evidence for Survive from covert movement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background assumptions.
2.1. The survive principle and type driven interpretation -- 2.2 The phonological theory of QR -- 3. Survive and scope -- 3.1 Scope freezing in double object constructions -- 3.1.1 Previous accounts -- 3.1.2 Survive and scope freezing -- 3.2 Inverse linking -- 3.2.1 Survive and inverse linking -- 3.2.2 Order of movement -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Language change and survive -- 1. Survive -- 2. Syntactic change: Grammaticalization -- 3. Conclusion: Survive and feature economy in language change -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Towards a derivational syntax index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
Abstract:
This paper examines what data from language change can tell us about derivations, and in particular the early part of the derivation where lexical items are selected from the lexicon using the Survive mechanism. It is well-known that in changes often referred to as grammaticalization the features of lexical items are not only lost but reanalyzed from semantic to grammatical. I argue this is due to principles economizing derivations. Unlike many using Survive, I argue that uninterpretable features are in fact necessary.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Genre:
Electronic Access:
Click to View