Phases of Interpretation / / ed. by Mara Frascarelli.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2006
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 91
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Physical Description:1 online resource (389 p.)
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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