Morphosyntax Of Verb Movement
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Morphosyntax of Verb Movement
Author | : J.-W. Zwart |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789401158800 |
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Morphosyntax of Verb Movement discusses the phenomenon of Dutch, present in many Germanic languages, that the finite verb is fronted in main clauses but not in embedded clauses. The theoretical framework adopted is the so-called Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995), the latest developmental stage of generative grammar. Taking issue with previous analyses, the author argues that phrase structure in Dutch is uniformly head initial, and that the finite verb moves to different positions in subject initial main clauses and in inversion constructions. The book contains lucid and detailed discussion of many theoretical issues in connection with the Minimalist Program, such as the relation between syntax and morphology, the nature of syntactic licensing, and the structure of the functional domain. At the same time, it offers a survey of the properties of Dutch syntax, a discussion of previous analyses of Dutch syntax and a wealth of material from dialects of Dutch and other Germanic languages.
Morphosyntax of Verb Movement
Author | : C. Jan-Wouter Zwart |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0792342631 |
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Morphosyntax of Verb Movement discusses the phenomenon of Dutch, present in many Germanic languages, that the finite verb is fronted in main clauses but not in embedded clauses. The theoretical framework adopted is the so-called Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995), the latest developmental stage of generative grammar. Taking issue with previous analyses, the author argues that phrase structure in Dutch is uniformly head initial, and that the finite verb moves to different positions in subject initial main clauses and in inversion constructions. The book contains lucid and detailed discussion of many theoretical issues in connection with the Minimalist Program, such as the relation between syntax and morphology, the nature of syntactic licensing, and the structure of the functional domain. At the same time, it offers a survey of the properties of Dutch syntax, a discussion of previous analyses of Dutch syntax and a wealth of material from dialects of Dutch and other Germanic languages.
Morphology Driven Syntax
Author | : Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1999-06-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027299291 |
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This book argues that syntactic parameters are set in a principled fashion on the basis of overt functional morphology. The main focus of the book is on the different positions of the finite verb in the Germanic SVO languages. In addition, other syntactic phenomena (null subjects, transitive expletive constructions and object shift) and other language families (Romance, Semitic and Slavic) are discussed. A common explanation for all of the discussed phenomena is proposed: If and only if the features for “person” are distinctively marked by the agreement morphology, the agreement affixes are listed separately in the lexicon and project phrases of their own in syntax where they attract the verb to the head positions and allow the specifier positions to be filled by various phonologically (un)realized elements. Special attention is given to issues of historical development and child language acquisition.
Verb Movement
Author | : David Lightfoot,Norbert Hornstein |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1994-03-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521456614 |
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Work on the movement of phrase categories, mostly Noun Phrases, has been a central element of syntactic theorizing almost since the earliest work on generative grammar. Work on the movement of lexical elements, heads, has been much less central until recent years. Verb movement is now, however, the center of current research in syntax. Parallel to the theoretical interest has been the attention focused on the description of verb-second languages and on the movement operations that place the verb in its "second" position. This volume represents the latest work from many of the leading researchers in an important field, and draws on analyses from a wide range of languages. It will have a significant impact on its field.
Morphosyntactic Change
Author | : Bettelou Los |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2012-05-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781107012639 |
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Particle verbs (combinations of two words but lexical units) are a notorious problem in linguistics. Is a particle verb like look up one word or two? It has its own entry in dictionaries, as if it is one word, but look and up can be split up in a sentence: we can say He looked the information up and He looked up the information. But why can't we say He looked up it? In English look and up can only be separated by a direct object, but in Dutch the two parts can be separated over a much longer distance. How did such hybrid verbs arise and how do they function? How can we make sense of them in modern theories of language structure? This book sets out to answer these and other questions, explaining how these verbs fit into the grammatical systems of English and Dutch.
Generalized Verb Movement
Author | : Adriana Belletti |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105008912789 |
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Morphology Morphology its relation to syntax
Author | : Francis Katamba |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0415270820 |
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This six-volume collection draws together the most significant contributions to morphological theory and analysis which all serious students of morphology should be aware of. By comparing the stances taken by the different schools about the important issues, the reader will be able to judge the merits of each, with the benefit of evidence rather than prejudice.
Tense and Aspect
Author | : Alessandra Giorgi,Fabio Pianesi |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1997-12-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780195357882 |
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The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, and suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework. They compare tense and aspect systems in Romance languages with Germanic ones.