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Variation in P is an essential follow-up to the seminal proposals of the generative tradition regarding prepositional syntax. Recent research shows that prepositional phrases have a complex internal structure, and that the grammatical encoding of locative meaning has its own place in universal grammar. The papers collected in the first part of this volume not only test these proposals against new comparative data, but also shed light on the relation between spatial expressions and other semantic relations like possession. The second part of the volume explores the role of prepositions in non-spatial environments as well as in more general phenomena like verbal affixation, ellipsis, and complementation.
By drawing on evidence from less studied languages, and by considering prepositional syntax in interaction with clausal syntax as well as within prepositional phrases,
Variation in P refines and develops theories introduced by previous generative studies.
Table des matières
- Variation in P: An Introduction
- Jacopo Garzonio and Silvia Rossi
- Part I: (Micro)variation in PPs: Refining the fine structure of PPs
- Chapter 1: Locatives in Shonda and Luganda
- Pavel Caha and Marina Pantcheva
- Chapter 2: Case Variation in Eastern Polynesian Spatial PPs
- David Medeiros
- Chapter 3: AxParts and Case in Complex PPs: Microvariation in Italian dialects
- Jacopo Garzonio and Silvia Rossi
- Chapter 4: At the doctor's: prepositional 'where' in Southern Italian dialects
- Nicola Munaro and Cecilia Poletto
- Part II: Ps beyond PPs: Variation in P-related phenomena
- Chapter 5: P and the Emergence of the Infinitival Left Periphery
- Joachim Sabel
- Chapter 6: Mutation in Spatial Deixis (Dx): "PPs" in Blackfoot and Plains Cree*
- Tomio Hirose, Rose-Marie Déchaine, and Heather Bliss
- Chapter 7: Cross-linguistic variations in the layered structure of PP: Evidence from PP internal NP-ellipsis
- Hisako Takahashi
- Chapter 8: Comitative P
- Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Marco Nicolis and Stanca Somesfalean
A propos de l'auteur
Jacopo Garzonio is Assistant Professor at the University of Padova.
Silvia Rossi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Résumé
Variation in P collects papers from generative syntacticians working on aspects of prepositional grammar, studying prepositional syntax not only within prepositional phrases but also in interaction with clausal syntax. The papers provide new comparative data by considering a wide range of languages.
