Syntax and its Limits
Raffaella Folli, Christina Sevdali, and Robert Truswell
Abstract
This book explores the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which both syntactic and nonsyntactic analyses initially appear plausible. Exploring the nature of such phenomena permits a deeper understanding of the nature of syntax and of neighbouring modules and their interaction. The book contributes to both traditional work in generative syntax and to the recent emphasis placed on questions related to the interfaces. The major topics covered include areas of current intensive research within the Minimalist Program and syntactic theory more generally, ... More
This book explores the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which both syntactic and nonsyntactic analyses initially appear plausible. Exploring the nature of such phenomena permits a deeper understanding of the nature of syntax and of neighbouring modules and their interaction. The book contributes to both traditional work in generative syntax and to the recent emphasis placed on questions related to the interfaces. The major topics covered include areas of current intensive research within the Minimalist Program and syntactic theory more generally, such as constraints on scope and binding relations, information-structural effects on syntactic structure, the structure of words and idioms, argument- and event-structural alternations, and the nature of the relations between syntactic, semantic, and phonological representations. Following the Introduction, the volume is organized into four thematic sections which cover the following: architectures; syntax and information structure; syntax and the lexicon; and lexical items at the interfaces.
Keywords:
architecture of grammar,
syntax-LF interface,
lexicon,
interfaces,
information structure,
generative syntax,
scope and binding relations,
event structure
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199683239 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2014 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199683239.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Raffaella Folli, editor
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Ulster
Christina Sevdali, editor
Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Ulster
Robert Truswell, editor
Assistant Professor of Syntax, University of Ottawa
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