Local Modelling of Non-Local Dependencies in Syntax / / ed. by Artemis Alexiadou, Gereon Müller, Tibor Kiss.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Abels, Klaus,; Alexiadou, Artemis,; Anagnostopoulou, Elena,; Bentzen, Kristine,; Biskup, Petr,; Cuartero, Juan,; Gallego, Ángel J.,; Georgi, Doreen,; Gärtner, Hans-Martin,; Heck, Fabian,; Hole, Daniel,; Iordăchioaia, Gianina,; Kallulli, Dalina,; Kiss, Tibor,; Klein, Udo,; Kobele, Gregory M.,; Marchis, Mihaela,; Müller, Gereon,; Nishida, Chiyo,; Richards, Marc,; Sabel, Joachim,; Schäfer, Florian,; Unger, Christina,; Worth, Chris,; Yoshida, Masaya,
• HerausgeberIn: Alexiadou, Artemis,; Kiss, Tibor,; Müller, Gereon,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten , 547
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (526 p.)

Syntactic dependencies are often non-local: They can involve two positions in a syntactic structure whose correspondence cannot be captured by invoking concepts like minimal clause or predicate/argument structure. Relevant phenomena include long-distance movement, long-distance reflexivization, long-distance agreement, control, non-local deletion, long-distance case assignment, consecutio temporum, extended scope of negation, and semantic binding of pronouns. A recurring strategy pursued in many contemporary syntactic theories is to model cases of non-local dependencies in a strictly local way, by successively passing on the relevant information in small domains of syntactic structures.The present volume brings together eighteen articles that investigate non-local dependencies in movement, agreement, binding, scope, and deletion constructions from different theoretical backgrounds (among them versions of the Minimalist Program, HPSG, and Categorial Grammar), and based on evidence from a variety of typologically distinct languages. This way, advantages and disadvantages of local treatments of non-local dependencies become evident. Furthermore, it turns out that local analyses of non-local phenomena developed in different syntactic theories (spanning the derivational/declarative divide) often may not only share identical research questions but also rely on identical research strategies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Local Modelling of Non-Local Dependencies in Syntax: An Introduction -- Long Distance Agreement in Relative Clauses -- In Support of Long Distance Agree -- Agree, Move, Selection, and Set-Merge -- Probing the Past: On Reconciling Long-Distance Agreement with the PIC -- Reflexivity and Dependency -- Derivational Binding and the Elimination of Uninterpretable Features -- German Free Datives and Knight Move Binding -- Restricted Syntax – Unrestricted Semantics? -- Local Case, Cyclic Agree and the Syntax of Truly Ergative Verbs -- A Local Derivation of Global Case Splits -- Function Composition and the Linear Local Modeling of Extended NEG-Scope -- Ellipsis and Phases: Evidence from Antecedent Contained Sluicing -- Restructuring and Clitic Climbing in Romance: A Categorial Grammar Analysis -- A Derivational View on Movement Constraints -- Are Movement Paths Punctuated or Uniform? -- A Hypothetical Proof Account of Chamorro Wh-Agreement -- Deriving Reconstruction Asymmetries -- Local Modelling of Allegedly Local but Really Non-Local Phenomena: Lack of Superiority Effects Revisited -- Index