Directionality and Logical Form: On the Scope of Focusing Particles and Wh-In-Situ: 34 - Rilegato

Libro 48 di 60: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Bayer, Josef

 
9780792337522: Directionality and Logical Form: On the Scope of Focusing Particles and Wh-In-Situ: 34

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Directionality and Logical Form provides a detailed treatment of the syntax of focusing particles, such as only and even in a cross-linguistic perspective. The derivation of logical forms is shown to be under the control, not only of the ECP and subjacency, but also of directionality of government and the particular word-order parameter that holds in a given language: head-final languages systematically disallow certain derivations or readings that are available in head-initial languages. The reason is that heads that deviate in their selection properties from canonical head-finality project a directionality barrier. Various strategies are explored by which this barrier can be circumvented. Although the theory is developed mainly on the basis of the head position in German, it can be directly used to explain constraints on the scope of Wh-in-situ in Bengali and closely related languages.
Audience: Syntacticians and semanticists interested in parametric variation, as well as linguists working on Germanic and/or Indo-Aryan languages.

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Preface. Abbreviations used in glosses. Introduction. Notes. 1. Selected earlier work on the syntax and semantics of focusing particles. 2. Movement to a scope position: quantificational and scalar interpretation. 3. Focusing particles and quantifiers in pre- and postpositional phrases. 4. Focusing particles and quantifiers in determiner and noun phrases. 5. Focusing particles and quantifiers in adjectival phrases. 6. The verb phrase, clausal complements and extraposition. 7. Complementation and the scope of Wh in Bengali.

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9789048146239: Directionality and Logical Form: On the Scope of Focusing Particles and Wh-in-situ: 34

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ISBN 10:  9048146232 ISBN 13:  9789048146239
Casa editrice: Springer, 2010
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