Theoretical approaches to universals

Author(s)

• Alexiadou, Artemis

Bibliographic Information

Theoretical approaches to universals

edited by Artemis Alexiadou

（Linguistik aktuell, v. 49）

J. Benjamins, c2002

• : Eur., hb
• : US, hb

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

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Details

• NCID: BA58610656
• ISBN:
  • 9027227705
  • 1588111911
• LCCN: 2002021464
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 316 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P204
  • DC21 : 415/.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Universals (Linguistics) -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00524923