Specifiers - Minimalist Approaches

Klappentext This book focuses on the most controversial area of phrase structure! the notion of specifier - a notion encompassing the traditional categories of subjects! possessors! determiners! auxiliaries! and adjuncts. It examines what place the notion has in the new theory and how the projection of specifiers is to be eliminated or extended. The contributors draw on empirical! theoretical research in cross-linguistic phenomena and first and second language acquisition. Zusammenfassung This collection of papers explores the concept of specifier, one of the fundamental concepts in the theory of phrase structure, within the latest syntactic framework: Chomsky's Minimalist Programme. A large number of languages, from English to Zuni, and from Modern Greek to Japanese and Arabic, are covered by the various contributions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Specifiers in Generative Grammar Specifiers as Secondary Heads Without Specifiers Filling and Licensing Multiple Specifiers EPP without Spec, IP Spec-Head Agreement and Case in Arabice The Specifier-Adjunct Distinction The wh effect and Multiple Wh-fronting Nominal and Verbal Projections Dependencies and Extractions Movement to Specifiers Wh and the Locality of Feature Checking Specifiers and Finiteness Spec-Head Relationships in Child Swedish Some Specs on Specs in L2 Acquistion

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• Authors: David (Queen Mary University of London) Adger, David Pintzuk Adger
• Assisted by: David Adger (Editor), Susan Pintzuk (Editor), Bernadette Plunkett (Editor), George Tsoulas (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1999
• EAN: 9780198238140
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823814-0
• No. of pages: 356
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics