The nature and function of syntactic categories

• Superior document: Syntax and Semantics
• Author: Borsley, Robert D.
• TeilnehmendeR: Borsley, Robert D.
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: Syntax and Semantics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (378 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: What are the categories? What properties do they have? And, How do they relate to each other? This book contains essays that address these questions by inquiring whether there is a distinction between lexical and functional categories.

Table of Contents

SYNTAX and SEMANTICS; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; 1. SOME BACKGROUND; 2. THE CHAPTERS; REFERENCES; GRAMMAR WITHOUT FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES; 3. COMPLEMENTIZER; 4. PRONOUN; 5. VALENCY AND ITS IRRELEVANCE TO CLASSIFICATION; 6. DETERMINER; 7. FWCs AS CLASSES OF FUNCTION WORDS; 8. FWCs AS CLOSED CLASSES; 9. GRAMMAR WITHOUT FWCs; REFERENCES; FUNCTIONAL VERSUS LEXICAL:A COGNITIVE DICHOTOMY; 1. INTRODUCTION 1; 2. CHARACTERIZING FUNCTIONAL EXPRESSIONS; 3. THE PSYCHOLINGUISTIC EVIDENCE; 4. CATEGORIZING FUNCTIONAL EXPRESSIONS; 5. CONCLUSION

REFERENCESFEATURE CHECKING UNDER ADJACENCY AND VSO CLAUSE STRUCTURE; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. FEATURE CHECKING; 3. SUBJECT POSITIONS IN IRISH AND SCOTTISH GAELIC; 4. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; MIXED EXTENDED PROJECTIONS1; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. A PROPOSAL; 3. SOME CONSTRUCTIONS; 4. SOME ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES; 5. SOME IMPOSSIBLE STRUCTURES; 6. SOME OTHER ANALYSES; 7. A FURTHER ISSUE; 8. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; VERBAL GERUNDS AS MIXED CATEGORIES INHEAD-DRIVEN PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PROPERTIES OF VERBAL GERUNDS; 3. PREVIOUS ANALYSES; 4. THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES

5. A MIXED LEXICAL CATEGORYANALYSIS OF VERBAL GERUNDS6. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; ENGLISH AUXILIARIES WITHOUT LEXICAL RULES; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. AUXILIARY CONSTRUCTIONS IN HEAD-DRIVEN PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR; 3. NEGATION; 4. SUBJECT-AUXILIARY INVERSION; 5. LINEAR PRECEDENCE; 6. POSTAUXILIARY ELLIPSIS; 7. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; THE DISCRETE NATURE OF SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES: AGAINSTA PROTOTYPE-BASED ACCOUNT; 1. PROTOTYPES, FUZZY CATEGORIES, AND GRAMMATICAL THEORY; 2. PROTOTYPE THEORY AND SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES; 3. PROTOTYPICALITY AND PARADIGMATIC COMPLEXITY; 4. THE NONEXISTENCE OF FUZZY CATEGORIES

5. CONCLUSIONREFERENCES; SYNTACTIC COMPUTATION AS LABELEDDEDUCTION: WH A CASE STUDY; 1. THE QUESTION; 2. THE PROPOSED ANSWER; 3. THE DYNAMICS; 4. CROSSOVER: THE BASIC RESTRICTION; 5. TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY FOR WH-CONSTRUAL; 6. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; FINITENESS AND SECOND POSITION IN LONG VERB MOVEMENT LANGUAGES:BRETON AND SLAVIC; 1. PF CONDITIONS ON TENSE; 2. LONG VERB MOVEMENT VERSUS VERB SECOND; 3. BRETON; 4. SOUTH AND WEST SLAVIC; 5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; FRENCH WORD ORDER AND LEXICAL WEIGHT; 1. INTRODUCTION 1; 2. THE ORDER OF COMPLEMENTS IN THE VP; 3. A FEATURE-BASED TREATMENT

4. THE POSITION OF ADJECTIVES IN THE NP5. ORDERING ADVERBS IN THE VP; 6. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; INDEX