Functional Heads, Volume 7 The Cartography of Syntactic Structures

by Brugé, Laura; Cardinaletti, Anna; Giusti, Giuliana; Munaro, Nicola; Poletto, Cecilia

• ISBN13: 9780199746736
• ISBN10: 0199746737
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Ever since Chomsky's Barriers, functional heads have been the privileged object of research in generative linguistics. But over the last two decades, two rival approaches have developed. The cartographic project, as represented by the collections in this Oxford series, considers evidence for a functional head in one language as evidence for it in universal grammar. On the other hand, minimalist accounts tend to consider structural economy as literally involving as few heads as possible. In the present volume, some of the most influential linguists who have participated in this long-lasting debate offer their recent work in short, self contained case studies. The contributions cover all the main layers of recently studied syntactic structure, including such major areas of empirical research such as grammaticalization and language change, standard and non-standard varieties, interface issues, and morphosyntax. Functional Heads attempts to map aspects of syntactic structure following the cartographic approach, and in doing so demonstrate that the differences between the cartographic approach and the minimalist approach are more apparent than substantial.

Author Biography

Laura Brugé is a Researcher at the University of Venice.

Anna Cardinaletti is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Venice.

Giuliana Giusti is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Venice.

Nicola Munaro is a Researcher at the University of Venice.

Cecilia Poletto is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Frankfurt.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Functional Heads: State of the Art and Further Developments: The Editors	p. 3
On the Cartography of Functional Structure
From Modal Particle to Interrogative Marker: A Study of German denn	p. 13
Lexical Complementizers and Headless Relatives	p. 29
The Theory of Syntax and the Representation of Indexicality	p. 42
Wh-Movement as Topic Movement	p. 55
Subject Positions, Point of View and the Neuter Pronoun tet in West Flemish	p. 69
Number within the DP: A View from Oceanic	p. 81
Mirative and Focusing Uses of the Catalan Particle pla	p. 92
On the Nature of the V2 System of Medieval Romance	p. 103
A Note on the Spanish Left Periphery	p. 112
On Movements and Constraints
Moving Verbal Chunks in the Low Functional Field	p. 129
Articles as Partitives	p. 138
Toward an Analysis of French Hyper-Complex Inversion	p. 150
Samoan Ergativity as Double Passivization	p. 168
Revisiting "Suspended Affixation" and Other Coordinate Mysteries	p. 181
Backward Binding and the C-T Phase: A Case of Syntactic Haplology	p. 197
On the Feature Composition of Participial Light Verbs in French	p. 208
A Note on Dative compatibility Suppression	p. 220
Hallmarks of Portuguese Syntax	p. 232
Notes on Wh In Situ in French	p. 242
Re Re Again: What French re Shows about VP Structures, have and he Raising, and the Syntax/Phonology Interface	p. 253
The Structural Object Position of Verbs and Nouns	p. 263
On the Nature of Functional Heads
On the Double Definiteness Marker, Aspect, and Word Order in Old and Modern Scandinavian	p. 277
The Order of Verbal Affixes and Functional Structure in Imbabura Quichua	p. 288
Number As a Feature	p. 304
Which Is the Extended Projection Above N?	p. 325
On the Lexical/Functional Divide: The Case of Negation	p. 338
Diachrony and Cartography: Paths of Grammaticalization and the Clausal Hierarchy	p. 351
Silent Heads	p. 368
Postnominal Adjectives in Greek Indefinite Noun Phrases	p. 379
Afterword	p. 395
Index	p. 399
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