Ian Roberts

Continuing Syntax

Hierarchy and Locality

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A thorough exposition of hierarchy and locality, covering all the main components of contemporary syntactic theory. Examples are chosen to be easily understood, end-of-chapter exercises embed and extend knowledge, and a full glossary provides clear definitions of all the key terms. An ideal resource for instructors and intermediate-level students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009291668
• ISBN-10: 1009291661
• Artikelnr.: 72487239

Autorenporträt

Ian Roberts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Pavia. In 2007 he became an Ordinary Fellow of the British Academy, and between 2019 and 2022 was the Chair of the Linguistics and Philology Section of the British Academy. He has published eight monographs and three textbooks, and has edited several collections of articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Goals and basic assumptions
2. Hierarchy I: phrase structure and grammatical functions
3. Hierarchy II: c-command, head-movement and locality
4. Hierarchy & categories I: refining the structure of the clause and the VP
5. Hierarchy & categories II: the structure of nominals
6. Case and the nature of infinitives
7. Features, case and agreement
8. Hierarchy and linear order
9. The origins of hierarchy: bare phrase structure
10. Wh-movement: unbounded dependencies, islands, subjacency and barriers
11. Covert movement, copy theory and reconstruction
12. Phases and phase impenetrability
13. Types of locality: phases and relativised minimality
14. The syntax of silence I: ellipsis
15. The syntax of silence II: empty pronouns
16. Wrapping up: parameters, features and futures.