
Lexicon and Grammar : The English Syntacticon.
Title:
Lexicon and Grammar : The English Syntacticon.
Author:
Emonds, Joseph E.
ISBN:
9783110872996
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (513 pages)
Series:
Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; v.50
Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author's academic biography -- Chapter 1. Categories and feature inventories of Universal Grammar -- 1.1 A theory and practice of well-formed lexical entries -- 1.2 Types of syntactic categories and features -- 1.3 A theory of phrase structure as Extended Projections -- 1.4 The interplay among derivations, the Lexicon, and Economy Principles -- 1.5 An excursus into IP reference and economy at the LF Interface -- Chapter 2. Subcategorization: Syntax as the material basis of semantics -- 2.1 Advantages of classical subcategorization -- 2.2 Extending and restricting subcategorization to syntactic features -- 2.3 Syntactic vs. semantic selection: sisterhood is powerful -- 2.4 Determining Theta Roles by interpretive principles -- 2.5 Indeterminacy of object roles: the LOCATION feature on V -- 2.6 Indeterminacy of subject roles: variation in principal role -- 2.7 A Gedanken Experiment for learning lexical entries -- Chapter 3. Subcategorization inside words: Morphology as grammatical compounding -- 3.1 Marked and unmarked headedness: English vs. Japanese -- 3.2 The independence of head directionality and domain size: French word order -- 3.3 Combining word-internal and phrasal trees -- 3.4 Conflating syntactic and morphological subcategorization -- 3.5 Where it's at: Morphology as a special case of compounding -- 3.6 Relating morphological typology to free form properties -- 3.7 Dictionary and Syntacticon: a new slant on lexical research -- Chapter 4. Multi-level lexical insertion: Explaining Inflection and Derivation -- 4.1 The bifurcated lexical model: Dictionary and Syntacticon -- 4.2 Levels of lexical insertion -- 4.3 Defining and dividing morphology -- 4.4 Inflectional morphology as late insertion -- 4.5 Alternative Realization on free morphemes -- 4.6 Derivational morphology: the arguments of lexically derived forms.
4.7 English nominalizations: confirming the Syntacticon model -- 4.8 Expanded list of differences between the Dictionary and the Syntacticon -- Chapter 5. Passive syntactic structures -- 5.1 The common syntax of Verbal and Adjectival passives -- 5.2 Differences between Verbal and Adjectival passives -- 5.3 Two insertion levels in syntax: two types of passive Adjectives -- 5.4 The Verbal (inflectional) passive -- 5.5 Cross-linguistic variation in impersonal passives -- 5.6 The strange Case of perfect participles -- Chapter 6. The genesis of flat structures: Linking verbs, "light" verbs and "restructuring" -- 6.1 Surprising consequences of higher empty heads -- 6.2 Flatter lexical projections for predicate adjectives and participles -- 6.3 Flatter lexical projections induced by "light" verbs -- 6.4 Theoretical limits on possible flat structures -- 6.5 Differing lexical projections induced by restructuring verbs -- 6.6 The excess content of integrating syntax and morphology -- Appendix to chapter 6. Causative and perception verb "clause union" -- A.1 Burzio's parallels between causatives and restructuring -- A.2 Kayne's three patterns of Romance causatives -- A.3 Implications of a generalized definition of subject -- A.4 The syntax of internal arguments which are LF Subjects -- A.5 Revising the SSC and Principle A: Local Binding in LF -- Chapter 7. Subcategorization across syntactic empty heads -- 7.1 A review of Revised Classical Subcategorization -- 7.2 The source of intermediate empty heads -- 7.3 The Deep Case Filter: a basis for articulated structure and recursion -- 7.4 The range and genesis of adjunct constructions -- 7.5 Empty inflectional heads and economy of non-finite clauses -- 7.6 Present participles and the Revised Theta Criterion -- Chapter 8. The restricted complement space of lexical frames -- 8.1 The range of single phrase complements.
8.2 Limitations on multiple complements -- 8.3 The Case of predicate attributes -- 8.4 The restrictive Syntactic Lexicon confronts open-ended Conceptual Space -- Chapter 9. Licensing and identification of null complements -- 9.1 Syntactic identification and subcategorization -- 9.2 Three hypotheses for understood complements -- 9.3 Discourse identification: Grimshaw's null complement anaphora -- 9.4 Rizzi's generic null objects -- 9.5 The impotence of the lexical item -- Chapter 10. Understood subjects: Generalizing Pro -- 10.1 Subcategorization and obligatory control -- 10.2 Pragmatic control -- 10.3 Imperatives, direct and embedded -- 10.4 Understood agents in passive clauses -- 10.5 Nature's bottleneck -- Summary of principles -- Sample Lexicon -- References -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
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