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The Syntax of Tenselessness - Tense/Mood/Aspect-agreeing Infinitivals

Inglese · Copertina rigida

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Tense/Mood/Aspect-agreeing Infinitivals is an in-depth investigation of the syntax of verb-verb agreement phenomena in Swedish, including pseudocoordinations of the form John started and wrote 'John started writing' and double participles of the form John had been-able written 'John had been able to write'. Providing evidence from facts concerning extraction, locality, selection, and interpretation, the book argues that the relevant construction types all involve surface variants of "infinitives in disguise"; infinitivals that agree with the matrix clause in tense/mood/aspect. Arguments are presented in favour of taking the dependencies underlying the agreement to be instances of Agree between functional heads of the same label, a configuration that yields restructuring/clause-union. The main theoretical contributions of the book are two:
(i) Agreement is proportional to functional structure:
The possibility of "copying" a particular morphosyntactic form is contingent on the presence of the corresponding functional projection in the agreeing XP.
(ii) Size constancy between restructuring/non-restructuring infinitivals:
The category selected by a verb may remain constant between restructuring and non-restructuring configurations.
It is suggested that an important aspect of restructuring may be alternation between unmarked (negatively specified) features and unvalued varieties of the same features, capturing properties such as "tenselessness", "finitelessness", etc. of restructuring infinitivals. The book is an important contribution to the syntax of infinitival clauses, the syntax of clause-union/restructuring, and more generally to the syntax of agreement phenomena in natural language. In addition, it provides a general reference source for anyone interested in the syntax of Swedish and other Scandinavian languages.

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Anna-Lena Wiklund, University of Tromsø, Norway.

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"The book is an invaluable resource for syntacticians, especially those interested in working on Swedish, Scandinavian languages, and Germanic syntax in general. The breakdown of the data is very clear, making the book convenient to navigate through."Cynthia L. Zocca in: http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-1070.html

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Autori Anna-Lena Wiklund
Editore De Gruyter
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 01.01.2007
 
EAN 9783110190434
ISBN 978-3-11-019043-4
Pagine 238
Dimensioni 155 mm x 20 mm x 230 mm
Peso 478 g
Illustrazioni 15 b/w tbl.
Serie Studies in Generative Grammar
Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
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Categoria Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altra linguistica germanica / letteratura

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