Syntax on the Edge /

Syntax on the Edge / / Diego Gabriel Krivochen.

"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 approach...

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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).
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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.

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