Grant Goodall

Theory and Experiment in Syntax (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book reflects on key questions of enduring interest on the nature of syntax, bringing together Grant Goodall's previous publications to explore how syntactic representations are structured and the affordances of experimental techniques in studying them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000516456
• Artikelnr.: 63023618

Autorenporträt

Grant Goodall is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Linguistics Language Program and the Experimental Syntax Lab at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction: Five themes in the study of syntax
Part 1: Three-dimensional syntax
1 Coordination
2 Case, clitics, and lexical NP's in Romance causatives
3 Wanna-contraction as restructuring
Part 2: Syntax and argument structure
4 Evidence for an asymmetry in argument structure
5 X'-internal word order in Mandarin Chinese and universal grammar
6 On case and the passive morpheme
7 ¿-alignment and the by-phrase
8 Accusative case in passives
9 Passives and arbitrary plural subjects in Spanish
Part 3: The syntax of subjects and wh-dependencies
10 On the status of SPEC of IP
11 The EPP in Spanish
12 Inversion in wh-questions in child Romance and child English
13 Experimenting with wh-movement in Spanish
14 Syntactic satiation and the inversion effect in English and Spanish wh
-questions
Part 4: Constraints on wh-dependencies
15 Age-related effects on constraints on wh-movement
16 Is magnitude estimation worth the trouble?
17 The D-linking effect on extraction from islands and non-islands
18 Referentiality and resumption in wh-dependencies
19 D-linking, non-finiteness, and cross-linguistic variation in island
phenomena