Theoretical approaches to universals
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Theoretical approaches to universals
(Linguistik aktuell, v. 49)
J. Benjamins, c2002
- : Eur., hb
- : US, hb
Available at 32 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Papers from a conference on universals organized by the Research Center for General Linguistics (ZAS, Berlin), the Linguistics Depertment of University of Potsdam and the Dutch Graduate School in Linguistics (LOT) and hosted in Berln in March 1999
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The present volume has its origin in the GLOW conference on Universals hosted in Berlin in March 1999. The papers in this volume are concerned both with formal as well as with substantive universals. All the contributions attempt to identify universal properties of the language faculty, as well as the source of cross-linguistic variation. They cover a wide range of empirical phenomena across languages such as locality, deletion, verb classes, XP-split constructions, Quantifier Raising, the EPP, the Person Case Constraint etc. Some of the articles pay particular attention to the organization of the grammar, the type of operations that are effective, the role of features in determining variation, and primitive notions of phrase-structure (c-command, Agree etc.). Others show how structural differences capture semantic and morphological differences within a language and across languages, and how these are the ultimate source of linguistic variation. The book is of primary interest to researchers and students in syntactic theory, comparative syntax, and linguistic variation.
Table of Contents
- 1. List of contributors
- 2. Introduction (by Alexiadou, Artemis)
- 3. Universal features and language-particular morphemes (by Arad, Maya)
- 4. Agree or attract?: A Relativized Minimality solution to a Proper Binding Condition puzzle (by Boeckx, Cedric)
- 5. Distributed deletion (by Fanselow, Gisbert)
- 6. Roots, constituents, and c-command (by Frank, Robert)
- 7. A four-way classification of monadic verbs (by Kural, Murat)
- 8. On agreement: Locality and feature valuation (by Lopez, Luis)
- 9. A minimalist account of conflation processes: Parametric variation at the lexicon-syntax interface (by Mateu, Jaume)
- 10. Morphological constraints on syntactic derivations (by Romero, Juan)
- 11. Intermediate traces, reconstruction and locality effects (by Sabel, Joachim)
- 12. Index
by "Nielsen BookData"