Alain Rouveret

Aspects of Grammatical Architecture (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume collects 13 of the author's previously published papers which explore aspects of grammatical architecture from a minimalist perspective. The book examines the structural architectures of phrases and clauses, clitics, and derivations, and draws on examples from a broad range of languages to demonstrate these principles in practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351622202
• Artikelnr.: 50920366

Autorenporträt

Alain Rouveret is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics at the Université Paris-Diderot in Paris, France. He has also taught in Paris-Saint-Denis, as well as at Ecole Normale Supérieure, at Ecole Polytechnique, at EHESS and at GLOW Summer Schools in Salzburg and Gerona. His main research interests are in comparative syntax, morphology, formal grammar and linguistic typology. Besides many articles in international journals, he has published Syntaxe du gallois: principes généraux et typologie (1994) and Arguments minimalistes. Une présentation du Programme Minimaliste de Noam Chomsky (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. Part I: Phrasal and Clausal Architecture. 2. Functional
categories and agreement. 3. Proxy categories in phrase structure theory
(with Lea Nash). 4. Bod in the present tense and in other tenses. Part II:
Clitics and Phrase Structure. 5. Clitic placement and the Wackernagel
position in European Portuguese. 6. Cliticization as Unselective Attract
(with Lea Nash). Part III: The Architecture of Derivations. 7. VP ellipsis,
phases and the syntax of morphology. 8. Hallmarks of Portuguese syntax. 9.
Computational and semantic aspects of resumption. Part IV. The Architecture
of Grammar. 10. Intervention or phasal locality? Two ways of being local in
French causative constructions. 11. The expletive puzzle and the EPP.