Syntax on the Edge / / Diego Gabriel Krivochen.

• VerfasserIn: Krivochen, Diego Gabriel,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (243 pages).

"What is the most descriptively and explanatorily adequate format for syntactic structures and how are they constrained? Different theories of syntax have provided various answers: sets, feature structures, tree diagrams. Building on formal and empirical insights from a wide variety of approaches spanning more than 70 years (including Transformational Grammar, Relational Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, and Tree Adjoining Grammar), this monograph develops a new, mathematically grounded, framework in which objects known as graphs, and the constraints that follow from them, are argued to provide the best characterisation of the system of expressions and relations that make up natural language grammars. This new approach is motivated and exemplified via detailed and formally explicit analyses of major syntactic phenomena in English and Spanish"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Editorial Foreword -- ‎Preface -- ‎Acknowledgments -- ‎Figures -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Chapter 1. Introduction: Setting the Scene -- ‎1.1. Methodological and Historical Context -- ‎1.2. Transformations and the Preservation of Relations -- ‎1.3. Declarative vs. Procedural Syntax -- ‎1.4. On Graphs and Phrase Markers: First- and Second-Order Conditions on Structural Representations -- ‎1.5. Structural Uniformity (and Two Ways to Fix It) -- ‎1.6. You Only Have One Mother -- ‎Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Graph-Theoretic Syntax -- ‎2.1. Defining (L-)Graphs -- ‎2.2. Syntactic Composition and Semantic Interpretation -- ‎2.3. Adjacency Matrices and Arcs: More on Allowed Relations -- ‎Chapter 3. A Proof of Concept: Discontinuous Constituents -- ‎Chapter 4. Some Inter-Theoretical Comparisons -- ‎4.1. Multiple-Gap Relative Constructions -- ‎4.2. Dependencies and Rootedness -- ‎4.3. Crossing Dependencies -- ‎Chapter 5. Ordered Relations and Grammatical Functions -- ‎5.1. A Categorial Excursus on Unaccusatives and Expletives -- ‎Chapter 6. Towards an Analysis of English Predicate Complement Constructions -- ‎6.1. Raising to Subject -- ‎6.2. Raising to Object -- ‎6.3. Object-Controlled Equi -- ‎6.4. Subject-Controlled Equi -- ‎6.5. A Note on Raising and Polarity: 'Opacity' Revisited -- ‎Chapter 7. More on Cross-Arboreal Relations: Parentheticals and Clitic Climbing in Spanish -- ‎7.1. Discontinuity and Clitic Climbing in Spanish Auxiliary Chains -- ‎Chapter 8. On Unexpected Binding Effects: a Graph-Theoretic Approach to Binding Theory -- ‎8.1. Grafts and Graphs -- ‎Chapter 9. Complementation within the NP -- ‎Chapter 10. Wh-Interrogatives: Aspects of Syntax and Semantics -- ‎10.1. Simple Wh-Questions -- ‎Chapter 11. MIGs and Prizes -- ‎Chapter 12. The Structural Heterogeneity of Coordinations.

‎Chapter 13. A Small Collection of Transformations -- ‎13.1. Passivisation -- ‎13.2. Dative Shift -- ‎13.3. Transformations vs. Alternations -- ‎Chapter 14. Some Open Problems and Questions -- ‎14.1. A Note on Leftward and Rightward Extractions -- ‎14.2. Deletion without Deletion -- ‎14.3. Long Distance Dependencies and Resumptive Pronouns -- ‎14.4. Identity Issues in Local Reflexive Anaphora -- ‎14.5. Ghost in the Graph -- ‎14.6. A Derivational Alternative? -- ‎14.7. Future Prospects -- ‎Chapter 15. Concluding Remarks -- ‎Appendix. Some Notes on (Other) Graph-Based Approaches -- ‎References -- ‎General Index.