Beyond Principles and Parameters

by Johnson, Kyle; Roberts, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780792354987
• ISBN10: 0792354982
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

These papers, dedicated to Osvaldo Jaeggli by some of his friends and colleagues, canvas a variety of topics central to the current development of syntactic theory. Anne Rochette and Mario Montalbetti tackle subjects concerning the relationship between argument structure and grammatical functions. Dominique Sportiche and Joseph Aoun take up two particularly puzzling aspects of the syntax of clitics - Sportiche providing a new analysis of clitic Inversion constructions in French, and Aoun offering a novel theory of clitic doubling constructions, drawing on Arabic data. Maria Luisa Zubizarreta argues that inverted subjects in Spanish occupy a different structural position than the parallel inverted subjects of French or Italian, and relates this to other differences in the principles of word-order these languages obey. Finally, the articles by Mamoru Saito & Keiko Murasugi, Hagit Borer and Hilda Koopman all touch on the rapidly developing syntax of Determiner Phrases. Together these articles represent the on-going transition from models of syntactic variation that employ static sets of principles with open parameters in them.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(12)
Kyle Johnson
Ian Roberts
Clitic-Doubled Arguments	13	(30)
Joseph Aoun
Deconstructing the Construct	43	(48)
Hagit Borer
The Internal and External Distribution of Pronominal DPs	91	(42)
Hilda Koopman
Spanish Passivized Datives: The Relevance of Misanalysis	133	(12)
Mario Montalbetti
The Selection Properties of Aspectual Verbs	145	(22)
Anne Rochette
Subject Predication within IP and DP	167	(22)
Mamoru Saito
Keiko Murasugi
Subject Clitics in French and Romance Complex Inversion and Clitic Doubling	189	(34)
Dominique Sportiche
Word Order in Spanish and the Nature of Nominative Case	223	(28)
Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
Index	251