Principles and parameters of syntactic saturation /
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First Statement of Responsibility
Gert Webelhuth
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New York :
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Oxford University Press,
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1992
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xviii, 231 pages ;
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22 cm
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Oxford studies in comparative syntax
GENERAL NOTES
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1989
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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1: A Restrictive Theory of the Concept "Possible Parameter of Natural Language" 1.1: The Tension between Descriptive and Explanatory Adequacy. 1.2: A Model of Explanation: X-bar Theory. 1.3: The Bounds of Analytic Power. 1.3.1: Motivation for a Theory of Possible Parameters. 1.3.2: The Lower Bound of Analytic Power (Observational and Descriptive Adequacy). 1.3.3: The Upper Bound of Analytic Power (Explanatory Adequacy). 1.4: Locality Constraints on Lexical Information: The Variation Theorem. 1.5: A Theory of Possible Parameters: The Identical Projection Function Model. 1.6: The Atomization Problem. 1.7: A General Theory of Structure Building: Morphology within the IPF-Model. 1.8: Summary -- 2: Basic Word Order. 2.1: Introduction. 2.2: Documenting Directionality in Modern Germanic. 2.3: Summary -- 3: The Distribution of Finite Argument Clauses. 3.1: Introduction. 3.2: Clauses with and without Overt Complementizers. 3.3: Empirical Consequences of the Sentence Trace Universal. 3.3.1: Raising, Unaccusative, and Passive Verbs. 3.3.2: Other Constructions Where DP Is Not C-Selected. 3.3.3: Platzack on Swedish. 3.3.4: Preposition Stranding. 3.3.5: ECM Constructions. 3.3.6: Resumptive Pronouns. 3.3.7: Case Agreement. 3.3.8: Scrambling. 3.4: Conclusion -- 4: Pied Piping. 4.1: The Theoretical Relevance of the Pied Piping Phenomenon. 4.2: Pied Piping Possibilities in Germanic. 4.3: Relative Clauses in English. 4.4: The Pied Piping Generalizations. 4.4.1: Introduction. 4.4.2: Specifiers. 4.4.3: Complements. 4.4.4: Summary of the Generalizations. 4.5: Deriving the Generalizations. 4.5.1: Modifiers. 4.5.2: [theta]-Marked Phrases. 4.5.3: Specifiers of C'. 4.6: Summary and Discussion -- 5: The Syntax of Arguments and Sentence-Internal Chain Formation in Germanic. 5.1: Introduction. 5.2: Free Word Order Structures in German and Constraints on Movement. 5.2.1: Extraction from PP and the Left Branch Condition. 5.2.2: The Specificity Constraint on Extraction from DP. 5.2.3: The Coordinate Structure Constraint. 5.2.4: The Subject Condition. 5.2.5: Anti-Crossover Effects. 5.2.6: Parasitic Gaps. 5.2.7: Summary of Sections 5.2.1-5.2.6. 5.2.8: Evidence from Language Acquisition. 5.2.9: Consequences of the Syntactic and Acquisitional Properties of the Free Word Order Structures. 5.3: The Properties of Sentence-Internal Chains. 5.3.1: DP Can Undergo the Movement Process. 5.3.2: PP Can Undergo the Movement Process. 5.3.3: The Moved Element Is in a Non-Case Marked Position. 5.3.4: The Movement Licenses Parasitic Gaps. 5.3.5: The Mover Can Strand a Preposition. 5.3.6: More Than One Element Can Undergo the Movement. 5.3.7: The Moved Element Can Pied-Pipe Its Mother Constituent. 5.4: Deriving the Chain Type Difference. 5.4.1: Operator and Argument Features. 5.4.2: Characterization of Heavy-NP Shift. 5.4.3: Characterization of Scrambling. 5.5: Other Free Word Order Languages. 5.5.1: Dutch. 5.5.2: Czech/Russian (Slavic). 5.5.3: Hungarian (Finno-Ugric). 5.5.4: Tagalog (Austronesian). 5.5.5: Warlpiri (Australian). 5.5.6: Japanese (Altaic). 5.5.7: Haya (Niger-Kordofanian). 5.5.8: Quechua (Andean-Equatorial). 5.5.9: Hindi. 5.6: Scrambling and Binding Theory