Phases of Interpretation / / ed. by Mara Frascarelli.

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• MitwirkendeR: Alexiadou, Artemis,; Anagnostopoulou, Elena,; Bianchi, Valentina,; Cecchetto, Carlo,; Costantini, Francesco,; Cruschina, Silvio,; Frascarelli, Mara,; Giusti, Giuliana,; Hinterhölzl, Roland,; Kennedy, Christopher,; Lechner, Winfried,; Lipták, Anikó,; Percus, Orin,; Poletto, Cecilia,; Reintges, Chris H.,; Riemsdijk, Henk,; Rizzi, Luigi,; Schäfer, Florian,; Shlonsky, Ur,; Svenonius, Peter,; Trecci, Alessandra,
• HerausgeberIn: Frascarelli, Mara,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 91
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (389 p.)

This book investigates the concept of phase, aiming at a structural definition of the three domains that are assumed as the syntactic loci for interface interpretation, namely vP, CP and DP. In particular, three basic issues are addressed, that represent major questions of syntactic research within the Minimalist Program in the last decade. A) How is the set of minimally necessary syntactic operations to be characterised (including questions about the exact nature of copy and merge, the status of remnant movement, the role of head movement in the grammar), B) How is the set of minimally necessary functional heads to be characterised that determine the built-up and the interpretation of syntactic objects and C) How do these syntactic operations and objects interact with principles and requirements that are thought to hold at the two interfaces. The concept of phase has also implications for the research on the functional make-up of syntactic objects, implying that functional projections not only apply in a (universally given) hierarchy but split up in various phases pertaining to the head they are related to. This volume provides major contributions to this ongoing discussion, investigating these issues in a variety of languages (Berber, Dutch, English, German, Modern Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian and West Flemish) and combining the analysis of empirical data with the theoretical insights of the last years.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Phases and interpretation -- Chapter 1 – Interpretation and structural -- conditions -- Grafts follow from merge -- An interpretive effect of head movement -- When we do that and when we don t: A contrastive -- analysis of VP ellipsis and VP anaphora -- Chapter 2 – Interpretation in the DP-phase -- HAVE = BE + PREP(osition): New evidence for the -- preposition incorporation analysis of clausal possession -- Northern Norwegian degree questions and the syntax -- of measurement -- Parallels in clausal and nominal periphery -- Chapter 3 – Functional projections in the -- vP-phase -- The properties of anticausatives -- crosslinguistically -- Number agreement and event pluralization: A case -- study -- The Phase Condition and cyclic Spell-out: Evidence -- from VP-topicalization -- Parallel phases: a study on the high and low left -- periphery of Old Italian -- Chapter 4 – The CP-phase and Subject -- Licensing -- Obviation in subjunctive argument clauses and the -- first-personal interpretation -- Who is lui? Reference of Italian overt and covert -- subject pronouns -- Satisfying the Subject Criterion by a non subject: -- English Locative Inversion and Heavy NP Shift -- Informational focus in Sicilian and the left -- periphery -- Backmatter