Syntactic Derivations : : A Nontransformational View / / Ulf Brosziewski.

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• VerfasserIn: Brosziewski, Ulf,
• Place / Publishing House: Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2011]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten , 470
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (101 p.)

This study investigates a model of syntactic derivations that is based on a new concept of dislocation, i.e., of 'movement' phenomena. Derivations are conceived of as a compositional process that constructs larger syntactic units out of smaller ones without any phrase-structure representations, as in categorial grammars. It is demonstrated that a simple extension of this view can account for dislocation without gap features, chains, or structural transformations. Basically, it is assumed that movement 'splits' a syntactic expression into two parts, which form a derivational unit but enter separately into the formation of larger constituents. The study shows that in this approach, if common assumptions about selection and licensing are added, a small and coherent set of axioms suffices to deduce fundamental syntactic generalizations that transformational theories express in terms of X-bar-Theory and various constraints on movement. These generalizations include, for example, equivalents to the C-Command Condition and the Head Movement Constraint, the 'structure-preserving' nature of dislocation, its 'economical' character, and elementary bounding principles.

This study investigates a model of syntactic derivations that is based on a new concept of dislocation, i.e., of 'movement' phenomena. Derivations are conceived of as a compositional process that constructs larger syntactic units out of smaller ones without any phrase-structure representations, as in categorial grammars. It is shown that a simple extension of this view can account for dislocation without gap features, chains, or structural transformations, and for many basic generalizations that transformational theories express in terms of X-bar-Theory and various constraints on movement.

Table of Contents

I-VIII -- Overview -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phrase Structure -- 3. Syntactic Derivations -- 4. Summary -- 5. References