Minimality Effects in Syntax

Arthur Stepanov (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 311017961X / ISBN 13: 9783110179613

Editore: De Gruyter Mouton, 2004

Minimality Effects in Syntax | Arthur Stepanov (u. a.) | Buch | IV | Englisch | 2004 | De Gruyter Mouton | EAN 9783110179613 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin, productsafety[at]degruyterbrill[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Codice articolo 105926487

Riassunto:

The volume is a collection of 12 papers which focus on empirical and theoretical issues associated with syntactic phenomena falling under the rubric of Relativized Minimality (Rizzi 1990) or, in more recent terms, Minimal Link Condition (MLC, Chomsky 1995). The bulk of the papers are based on the ideas presented at the Workshop "Minimal Link Effects in Minimalist and Optimality Theoretic Syntax" which took place at the University of Potsdam on March 21-22, 2002.

All contributors are prominent specialists in the topic of syntactic Minimality. The empirical phenomena brought to bear on Minimality/MLC in the present volume include, but not limited to:

• Superiority effects in multiple wh-questions, including those with 'D-linked' wh-phrase(s) (Müller, Haida, Haider)
• Stylistic Fronting in Germanic and Romance (Fisher, Poole)
• Transitive sentences in Hindi-type ergative languages (Stepanov)
• Word order 'freezing' effects in double-nominative constructions in Korean (Lee)
• Double object constructions in Greek (Anagnostoupoulou)
• Remnant constituent displacement in German and Japanese (Hale and Legendre)

Nine of the proposed accounts are couched in the Minimalist framework (Chomsky 1995, 2000, 2001), three in the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). Thematically, the contributions divide into three groups addressing the following major questions:

How can apparent violations of syntactic Minimality/MLC be accounted for? (Haida, Stepanov, Poole, Fisher, Anagnostopoulou)

What is the status of MLC? Is it a primitive or a theorem in the grammar? (Müller, Fanselow, Lechner, Vogel, Lee, Haider)

Can Minimality phenomena shed decisive evidence in favor of a derivational (Minimalist type) or a representational (Optimality theory like) framework? (Hale and Legendre, Haider)

Informazioni sull?autore:

Arthur Stepanov is Researcher at the Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany.

Gisbert Fanselow is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Ralf Vogel is Researcher at the Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany.

Artur Stepanov ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Potsdam.

Gisbert Fanselow ist Professor am Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Potsdam.

Ralf Vogel ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Potsdam.

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Titolo: Minimality Effects in Syntax
Casa editrice: De Gruyter Mouton
Data di pubblicazione: 2004
Legatura: Buch
Condizione: Neu