Parameters and functional heads : essays in comparative syntax

Author(s)

• Belletti, Adriana
• Rizzi, Luigi

Bibliographic Information

Parameters and functional heads : essays in comparative syntax

edited by Adriana Belletti, Luigi Rizzi

（Oxford studies in comparative syntax / Richard Kayne, general editor）

Oxford University Press, 1996

• : pbk

Note

Papers prepared at a program Certificat de spécialisation en théorie syntaxique et syntaxe comparative which was given during 1989-1990 at the University of Geneva

Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

• The verb always leaves IP in V-2 clauses / Bonnie Schwartz, Sten Vikner
• Residual verb second and the Wh criterion / Luigi Rizzi
• Complex inversion in French / Luigi Rizzi, Ian Roberts
• Negative concord in West Flemish / Liliane Haegeman, Raffaella Zanuttini
• On the relevance of tense for sentential negation / Raffaella Zanuttini
• A cross-linguistic study of Romance and Arbëresh causatives / Maria Teresa Guasti
• Hebrew noun phrases : generalized noun raising / Tal Siloni
• Three kinds of subject clitics in Basso Polesano and the theory of "pro" / Cecilia Poletto

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780195087932

Description

This is a collection of (mostly) previously unpublished papers that examine function heads using the Principles and Parameters approach. The main theoretical focus is on the general theory of head movement, the properties of derived structures, and their parametrization.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780195087949

Description

The essays collected in this volume, most previously unpublished, address a number of closely interconnected issues raised by the comparative syntax of functional heads within the Principles and Parameters approach. The general theory of head movement, the properties of derived structures created by incorporation, and the parameterization involved are the main theoretical foci. One major empirical area which is addressed concerns head movement in configurations involving certain kinds of operator-like elements, for example, the different manifestations of Verb Second phenomena in Wh and other constructions and the syntax of negative heads and specifiers. In addition, properties of functional heads and head movement in nominal and clausal structures and the causative construction are investigated.

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Details

• NCID: BA27765170
• ISBN:
  • 0195087933
  • 0195087941
• LCCN: 93037260
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: 300 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P291
  • DC20 : 415
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
  • LCSH : Principles and parameters (Linguistics)
  • LCSH : Lexical-functional grammar
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA18658271