Local Modelling of Non-Local Dependencies in Syntax Hardback
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Tibor Kiss, Gereon Muller
Part of the Linguistische Arbeiten series
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Syntactic dependencies are often non-local: They can involve two positions in a syntactic structure whose correspondence cannot be captured by invoking concepts like minimal clause or predicate/argument structure.
Relevant phenomena include long-distance movement, long-distance reflexivization, long-distance agreement, control, non-local deletion, long-distance case assignment, consecutio temporum, extended scope of negation, and semantic binding of pronouns.
A recurring strategy pursued in many contemporary syntactic theories is to model cases of non-local dependencies in a strictly local way, by successively passing on the relevant information in small domains of syntactic structures. The present volume brings together eighteen articles that investigate non-local dependencies in movement, agreement, binding, scope, and deletion constructions from different theoretical backgrounds (among them versions of the Minimalist Program, HPSG, and Categorial Grammar), and based on evidence from a variety of typologically distinct languages.
This way, advantages and disadvantages of local treatments of non-local dependencies become evident.
Furthermore, it turns out that local analyses of non-local phenomena developed in different syntactic theories (spanning the derivational/declarative divide) often may not only share identical research questions but also rely on identical research strategies.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:532 pages
- Publisher:De Gruyter
- Publication Date:15/11/2012
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- ISBN:9783110294712
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:532 pages
- Publisher:De Gruyter
- Publication Date:15/11/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9783110294712
