Discovering Syntax : : Clause Structures of English, German and Romance / / Joseph E. Emonds.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Emonds, Joseph E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 93
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (393 p.)

The essays in this volume, dating from 1991 onwards, focus on highly characteristic constructions of English, Romance languages, and German. Among clause-internal structures, the most puzzling are English double objects, particle constructions, and non-finite complementation (infinitives, participles and gerunds). Separate chapters in Part I offer relatively complete analyses of each. These analyses are integrated into the framework of Emonds (2000), wherein a simplified subcategorization theory fully expresses complement selection. Principal results of that framework constitute the initial essay of Part I. areas. The self-contained essays can all be read separately. They are rich in empirical documentation, and yet in all of them, solutions are constructed around a coherent, relatively simple theoretical core. In Romance languages, classic generative debates have singled out clitic and causative constructions as the most challenging. Separate essays in Part II lay out the often complex paradigms and propose detailed syntactic solutions, simple in their overall architecture yet rich in detailed predictions. Concerning movements to clausal edges, especially controversial topics include passives, English parasitic gaps, and the nature of verb-second systems exemplified by German. The essays in Part III each use rather surprising but still theoretically constrained structural accounts to solve thorny problems in all three.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue to Discovering Syntax -- Part I: Structures in lexical projections -- Chapter 1. Types of syntactic categories and -- features -- Chapter 2. The restricted complement space of -- lexical frames -- Chapter 3. The autonomy of the (syntactic) lexicon -- and syntax: Insertion conditions for derivational and inflectional -- morphemes -- Chapter 4. Secondary predication, stationary -- particles, and silent prepositions -- Chapter 5. Projecting indirect objects -- Part II: Minimal structures for functional -- categories -- Chapter 6. The flat structure economy of -- semi-lexical heads -- Chapter 7. How clitics license null phrases: A -- theory of the lexical interface -- Chapter 8. English indirect passives -- Part III: Landing sites of phrasal -- movements -- Chapter 9. A theory of phrase structure based on -- Extended Projections -- Chapter 10. The lower operator position with -- parasitic gaps -- Chapter 11. Unspecified categories as the key to -- root constructions -- Backmatter