Logical Form From GB to Minimalism

by Hornstein, Norbert

• ISBN13: 9780631189428
• ISBN10: 0631189424
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-10-30
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book critically reviews grammatical research into logical form over the past 20 years and reconsiders some of its major themes in the light of recent theoretical innovations. In the late 1970s generative grammarians proposed the existence of an abstract syntactic level of grammatical representation derived from surface structure which was phonetically invisible. This level, dubbed logical form, has been thought of as the information that the grammar contributes to semantic interpretation. The first part of the book reviews the standard arguments for the existence of LF and its format.

Author Biography

Norbert Hornstein is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. viii
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
An Introduction	p. 1
The Grammatical Locus of Semantic Interpretation	p. 1
Two Ways of Identifying LF	p. 3
Studying LF	p. 5
Motivating LF	p. 10
Interpreting LF	p. 11
The Empty Category Principle at LF	p. 13
Cross Over Effects at LF	p. 21
Bound Pronouns	p. 23
Conclusion	p. 28
Appendix Subjacency	p. 28
More on LF	p. 35
Relative Quantifier Scope	p. 35
Aoun and Li (1989)	p. 35
Aoun and Li (1993a)	p. 40
The Relative Scope of WHs and Quantifiers	p. 44
The Problem	p. 44
Generalized Binding and Variable Types	p. 46
MBR and WH/Q Structures	p. 47
Antecedent-contained Deletion (ACD)	p. 53
Conclusion	p. 58
Some Minimalist Background	p. 59
Where We Are	p. 59
Where We Are Going: Outlines of a Minimalist Theory	p. 62
LF and PF as the Sole Grammatical Levels	p. 63
Basic Grammatical Relations are X'-theoretic	p. 67
Elements Move to Satisfy Morphological Requirements	p. 69
Conclusion	p. 71
Antecedent-Contained Deletion	p. 72
Baltin (1987) on ACD	p. 73
Larson and May's Reply	p. 74
ACDs and Minimalism	p. 78
A Minimalist Theory of ACDs	p. 79
Adjunct ACDs	p. 84
Further Implications	p. 87
ACDs and LF V-raising: Some Cross-linguistic Considerations	p. 91
Conclusion	p. 96
Nominative Objects	p. 97
Just Where is LF?	p. 98
Linking, Binding, and Weak Cross Over	p. 99
Introduction	p. 99
Linked Pronouns	p. 100
Stating the Weak Cross Over Principle	p. 106
The WCOP and Minimalism	p. 110
A Further Consequence: Linking and Quantifier/WH Interactions	p. 111
A Loose End: Reanalyzing "almost c-command"	p. 118
Conclusion	p. 122
Superiority Effects	p. 123
Introduction	p. 123
Superiority and Functional WHs	p. 125
Further Facts: Multiple Which Questions	p. 130
Some Comparative Superiority Data	p. 135
Languages with Multiply Fronted WHs	p. 135
Subject Postposing and Superiority	p. 141
Superiority in Clauses with Three WHs	p. 143
Anti-superiority Effects in Japanese	p. 144
Multiple Interrogatives with "Why"	p. 147
Yes/No Questions	p. 150
Concluding Remarks	p. 151
Conclusion	p. 152
Quantifier Scope	p. 153
Introduction: Basic Assumptions	p. 153
Subject and Object Quantified NPs	p. 155
Scope Restrictions	p. 158
Chinese Quantifiers	p. 164
Weak Cross Over, Superiority, and Polarity	p. 165
Some Further Benefits of Eliminating QR	p. 171
Two Residual Cases	p. 175
Prepositional Objects	p. 175
Double Object Constructions (DOCs)	p. 177
Conclusion	p. 180
Revisiting the Minimalist Program	p. 183
The Status of LF	p. 183
Chains and their Properties	p. 186
Derivational Constraints on Chains	p. 192
PF Chains	p. 195
"Pure" Subject/Object Asymmetries	p. 197
Conclusion	p. 201
Notes	p. 203
Bibliography	p. 253
Index	p. 259
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