Foundational issues in linguistic theory : essays in honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud
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Foundational issues in linguistic theory : essays in honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud
（Current studies in linguistics series, 45）
MIT Press, c2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Letter to Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik on "filters and control," April 17, 1977 / Jean-Roger Vergnaud
- On the development of case theory : triumphs and challenges / Howard Lasnik
- Uninterpretable features are incompatible in morphology with other minimalist postulates / M. Rita Manzini and Leonardo M. Savoia
- Parallel nominal and verbal projections / Karine Megerdoomian
- Clause structure and the syntax of verbless sentences / Elabbas Benmamoun
- On phases / Noam Chomsky
- Phasal agreement and reconstruction / Alain Rouveret
- Superiority, reconstruction, and islands / Cedric Boeckx and Norbert Hornstein
- Identity avoidance: OCP effects in Swiss relatives / Henk van Riemsdijk
- Ellipsis and missing objects / Joseph Aoun and Yen-hui Audrey Li
- Tokenism and identity in anaphora / Edwin Williams
- Some preliminary comparative remarks on French and Italian definite articles / Richard S. Kayne
- Reduplication / Morris Halle
- The logic of contrast / B. Elan Dresher
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Description
Essays by leading theoretical linguists-including Noam Chomsky, B. Elan Dresher, Richard Kayne, Howard Lasnik, Morris Halle, Norbert Hornstein, Henk van Riemsdijk, and Edwin Williams-reflect on Jean-Roger Vergnaud's influence in the field and discuss current theoretical issues
Jean-Roger Vergnaud's work on the foundational issues in linguistics has proved influential over the past three decades. At MIT in 1974, Vergnaud (now holder of the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in Humanities at the University of Southern California) made a proposal in his Ph.D. thesis that has since become, in somewhat modified form, the standard analysis for the derivation of relative clauses. Vergnaud later integrated the proposal within a broader theory of movement and abstract case. These topics have remained central to theoretical linguistics. In this volume, essays by leading theoretical linguists attest to the importance of Jean-Roger Vergnaud's contributions to linguistics. The essays first discuss issues in syntax, documenting important breakthroughs in the development of the principles and parameters framework and including a famous letter (unpublished until recently) from Vergnaud to Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik commenting on the first draft of their 1977 paper "Filters and Controls." Vergnaud's writings on phonology (which, the editors write, "take a definite syntactic turn") have also been influential, and the volume concludes with two contributions to that field. The essays, rewarding from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, not only offer insight into Vergnaud's impact on the field but also describe current work on the issues he introduced into the scholarly debate.
Contributors
Joseph Aoun, Elabbas Benmamoun, Cedric Boeckx, Noam Chomsky, B. Elan Dresher, Robert Freidin, Morris Halle, Norbert Hornstein, Richard S. Kayne, Samuel Jay Keyser, Howard Lasnik, Yen-hui Audrey Li, M. Rita Manzini, Karine Megerdoomian, David Michaels, Henk van Riemsdijk, Alain Rouveret, Leonardo M. Savoia, Jean-Roger Vergnaud, Edwin Williams
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