Phase Theory.
Title:
Phase Theory.
Author:
Gallego, Ángel J.
ISBN:
9789027288370
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (384 pages)
Contents:
Phase Theory -- Title page -- Editorial page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The framework -- 1. The framework. Operations and cyclic architecture -- 1. Design factors and the strong minimalist thesis -- 2. Computational operations -- 2.1 Merge -- 2.1.1 From X-bar theory to bare phrase structure -- 2.1.2 Label-free bare phrase structure -- 2.1.3 Adjuncts and pair merge -- 2.2 Agree -- 3. Locality and the concept of cycle -- 2. Phase Theory and Phase Sliding -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phase theory: Foundations and extensions -- 2.1 Defining phases: Computational efficiency or interface motivations -- 2.2 Phases, phase heads, and features -- 2.3 On uF-inheritance -- 2.4 Problems for phases -- 3. The nature of Case: Consequences for merge and clause structure -- 3.1 Case as tense/aspect -- 3.2 Feature sharing and merge -- 3.3 T-to-C movement -- 4. Verb movement and Phase Sliding -- 4.1 Head movement in the framework of phases: Head movement and minimality -- 4.2 Phase Sliding -- 5. Some consequences of Phase Sliding -- 5.1 Obligatory inversion -- 5.2 Uriagereka's (1999b) analysis of preverbal subjects -- 6. Den Dikken's (2006 -- 2007) Phase Extension -- 7. Conclusions -- 3. Microvariation in null subject languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Uriagereka's (1988a -- 1995a -- 1995b) F and parametric variation -- 3. C-Tdef and subjunctive dependents -- 3.1 On defectiveness -- 3.2 Tdef in romance -- 3.3 Raising over experiencer and Spanish parecer -- 3.3.1 Boeckx's (1999a -- 2000a) and Torrego's (2002) accounts -- 3.3.2 A new analysis -- 3.4 Ausín's (2001) analysis: parecer as a modal -- 3.5 Subjunctive as ECM -- 4. Remarks on SPEC-v*-TS and preverbal subjects -- 5. Object shift in Romance -- 5.1 VOS in NSLs -- 5.2 A multiple agree analysis for VOS? -- 5.3 VSO in NSLs -- 6. The EPP2: [person] checking and doubling.
7. Conclusions -- 4. Phases and islands -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Locality revisited: Cycles, barriers, and phases -- 3. Subextraction from SPEC-v* -- 3.1 The subject condition -- 3.2 Kuno's (1973) Incomplete Constituent Effects -- 3.3 Subextraction from shifted and agreeing objects -- 4. CP dependents -- 5. Prepositions and Phase Sliding -- 6. Subextraction from SPEC-C -- 6.1 Uriagereka's (2004) analysis -- 6.2 Subextraction or aboutness base generation? -- 6.3 A-bar systems and the minimal link condition -- 6.4 Criterial freezing under the principle of full interpretation -- 7. The Subject Condition: A reply to Fortuny (2008) -- 8. Conclusions -- 5. Beyond phases -- References -- Language index -- Subject index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
Abstract:
This book provides a detailed and up to date review of the framework of phases (Chomsky 2000 and subsequent work). It explores the interaction between the narrow syntactic computation and the external systems from a minimalist perspective. As has sometimes been noted, Phase Theory is the current way to study the cyclic nature of the system, and 'phases' are therefore the natural locality hallmark, being directly relevant for phenomena such as binding, agreement, movement, islands, reconstruction, or stress assignment. This work discusses the different approaches to phases that have been proposed in the recent literature, arguing in favor of the thesis that the points of cyclic transfer are to be related to uninterpretable morphology (the Φ-features on the heads C and v*). This take on phases is adopted in order to investigate raising structures, binding, subjunctive dependents, and object shift (word order) in Romance languages, as well as the nature of islands.
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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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