Exploring nanosyntax

Author(s)

• Baunaz, Lena
• De Clercq, Karen
• Haegeman, Liliane M. V.
• Lander, Eric (Linguist)

Bibliographic Information

Exploring nanosyntax

edited by Lena Baunaz ... [et al.]

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

Oxford University Press, c2018

• : pbk
• : cloth

Note

Other editors: Karen De Clercq, Liliane Haegeman, and Eric Lander

Glossary: p. [329]-330

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Exploring Nanosyntax provides the first in-depth introduction to the framework of nanosyntax, which originated in the early 2000s as a formal theory of language within Principles and Parameters framework. Deploying a radical implementation of the cartographic "one feature - one head" maxim, the framework provides a fine-grained decomposition of morphosyntactic structure, laying bare the building blocks of the universal functional sequence. This volume makes three contributions: First, it presents the framework's constitutive tools and principles, and explains how nanosyntax relates to cartography and to Distributed Morphology. Second, it illustrates how nanosyntactic tools and principles can be applied to a range of empirical domains of natural language. In doing so, the volume provides a range of detailed crosslinguistic investigations which uncover novel empirical data and which contribute to a better understanding of the functional sequence. Third, specific problems are raised and discussed and new theoretical strands internal to the nanosyntactic framework are explored. Bringing together original contributions by senior and junior researchers in the field, Exploring Nanosyntax offers the first all-encompassing view of this promising framework, making its methodology and exciting results accessible to a wide audience.

Table of Contents

Contributors Preface PART I: Background 1. Nanosyntax: The Basics, Lena Baunaz & Eric Lander 2. Notes on Insertion in Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax, Pavel Caha 3. Spanning vs. Constituent Lexicalization: The Case of Portmanteau Prefixes, Tarald Taraldsen PART II: Empirical Investigations 4. A Note on Kim's Korean Question Particles Seen as Pronouns, Michal Starke 5. Syncretism and Containment in Spatial Deixis, Eric Lander & Liliane Haegeman 6. Decomposing Complementizers : The fseq of French, Modern Greek, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian Complementizers, Lena Baunaz 7. Syncretisms and the Morphosyntax of Negation, Karen De Clercq 8. The Nanosyntax of Russian Verbal Prefixes, Inna Tolskaya PART III: Theoretical Explorations 9. Complex Left Branches, Spellout, and Prefixes, Michal Starke 10. Word Order and Nanosyntax: Preverbal Subjects and Interrogatives across Spanish Varieties, Antonio Fabregas 11. The Feature Structure of Pronouns: A Probe into Multidimensional Paradigms, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd 12. Fseq Zones and Slavic L>T>N Participles, Lucie Taraldsen Medova & Bartosz Wiland Glossary Index

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Details

• NCID: BB26192553
• ISBN:
  • 9780190876753
  • 9780190876746
• LCCN: 2017040790
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 342 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P291
  • DC23 : 415
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA18658271