Naoki Fukui

Theoretical Comparative Syntax (eBook, PDF)

Studies in Macroparameters

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Produktbeschreibung

"Theoretical Comparative Syntax brings together for the first time, significant essays and articles by Naoki Fukui, exploring various topics in the areas of syntactic theory and comparative syntax. The articles have a special focus on the typological differences between English (-type languages) and Japanese (-type languages) and abstract parameters that derive them. Linguistic universals are considered in the light of cross-linguistic variation and typological (parametric) differences are investigated from the viewpoint of universal principles.
The unifying theme of this volume is the nature and structure of invariant principles and parameters (variables) and how they interact to give principled accounts to a variety of seemingly unrelated differences between English and Japanese. These two types of languages provide an ideal testing ground for the principles and their interactions with the parameters since the languages exhibit diverse superficial differences in virtually every aspect of their linguistic structures: word order, "wh

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134326662
• Artikelnr.: 42982426

Autorenporträt

Fukui, Naoki

Inhaltsangabe

Original publication details
Introduction
1 Specifiers and projection
2 LF extraction of naze: some theoretical implications
3 Strong and weak barriers: remarks on the proper characterization of barriers
4 Parameters and optionality
5 A note on improper movement
6 The principles-and-parameters approach: a comparative syntax of English and Japanese
7 Symmetry in syntax: Merge and Demerge
8 Order in phrase structure and movement
9 An A-over-A perspective on locality
10 The uniqueness parameter
11 Nominal structure: an extension of the Symmetry Principle
12 Phrase structure
13 The Visibility Guideline for functional categories: verb-raising in Japanese and related issues
Appendix: on the nature of economy in language
Notes
References