The syntax of nonsententials : multidisciplinary perspectives
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The syntax of nonsententials : multidisciplinary perspectives
（Linguistik aktuell, v. 93）
J. Benjamins Pub., c2006
Available at / 23 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume makes a multidisciplinary case for the existence of nonsententials, which are analyzed in various chapters as root phrases and small clauses (Me; Me First!; Him worry?!; Class in session), and whose distinguishing property is the absence of Tense, and, with it, any syntactic phenomena that rely on Tense, including structural Nominative Case. Arguably, the lack of Tense specification is also responsible for the dearth of indicative interpretations among nonsententials, as well as for their heavy reliance on pragmatic context. So pervasive is nonsentential speech across all groups, including normal adult speech, that a case can be made that continuity of grammar lies in nonsentential, rather than sentential speech.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. Introduction (by Progovac, Ljiljana)
- 3. 1. Toward a nonsentential analysis in generative grammar (by Barton, Ellen)
- 4. 2. The syntax of nonsententials: Small clauses and phrases at the root (by Progovac, Ljiljana)
- 5. 3. "Small structures": A sententialist perspective (by Merchant, Jason)
- 6. 4. Neither fragments nor ellipsis (by Stainton, Robert J.)
- 7. 5. Big questions, small answers (by Casielles, Eugenia)
- 8. 6. Extending the nonsentential analysis: The case of special registers (by Paesani, Kate)
- 9. 7. The narrowing acquisition path: From expressive small clauses to declaratives (by Potts, Christopher)
- 10. 8. Nonsententials in second language acquisition (by Work, Nicola)
- 11. 9. How language adapts to the brain: An analysis of agrammatic aphasia (by Kolk, Herman)
- 12. 10. Nonsententials and agrammatism (by Siple, Patricia)
- 13. 11. Reduced syntax in (prototypical) pidgins (by Winford, Donald)
- 14. 12. Copula variation in Guyanese Creole and AAVE: Implications for nonsentential grammar (by Edwards, Walter F.)
- 15. Epilogue: Wherefrom and whereto? (by Progovac, Ljiljana)
- 16. Index
by "Nielsen BookData"