Ways of Structure Building

Edited by Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria and Vidal Valmala

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Presents cutting-edge research by leading figures in the field and promising young scholars
Provides an updated view of the must-know approaches to structure building in natural languages
Brings together in one volume the most influential hypotheses on structure building developed in contemporary linguistic theory

Ways of Structure Building

Edited by Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria and Vidal Valmala

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Description

This volume addresses some of the most important approaches to the following key questions in contemporary generative syntactic theory: What are the operations available for (syntactic) structure-building in natural languages? What are the triggers behind them? and Which constraints are involved in the operations? Internationally recognised scholars and young researchers propose new answers on the basis of detailed discussions of a wide range of phenomena (Gapping, Right-Node-Raising, Comparative Deletion, Across-The-Board movement, Tough-constructions, Nominalizations, Scope interactions, Wh-movement, A-movement, Case and Agreement relations, among others). Their discussions draw on evidence from a rich variety of languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Croatian, English, German, Icelandic, Japanese, Spanish, Vata, and Vietnamese.

The proposals presented illustrate the shift in the locus of the explanation of linguistic phenomena that characterizes contemporary linguistic theory: a shift, in many cases, from a model which relies on properties of systems external to narrow syntax (such as the Lexicon or the Phonetic Form component) to one which relies on properties of the structure-building mechanisms themselves. The volume will interest researchers and students of theoretical linguistics from advanced undergraduate and above.

Ways of Structure Building

Edited by Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria and Vidal Valmala

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

1. Overview, Myriam uribe-Etxebarria and Vidal Valmala
Part I: Merge and Beyond
2. Constituent Structure Sets II, Dirk Bury and Hiroyuki Uchida
3. A Parallel Merge Solution to the Merchant/Johnson paradox, Barbara Citko
4. Evidence for Multidominance in Spanish Agentive Nominalizations, Antonio Fabregas
5. Clitic Placement and Multidominance, Martina Gracanin-Yusek
6. Sideward Movement: triggers, timing, and ouptuts, Jairo Nunes
7. Unconventional Mergers, Mark de Vries
Part II: Triggers and Constraints
8. 'Lasnik-effects' and String-vacuous ATB Movement, Jun Abe and Norbert Hornstein
9. Disharmony, Antisymmetry, and the Final-over-Final Constraint, Theresa Biberauer and Michelle Sheehan
10. Don't Feed Your Movements When you Shift Your Objects, Zeljko Boskovic
11. Structure Building That can't be, Samuel David Epstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara, and T. Daniel Seely
12. Specificity-driven Syntactic Derivation, Antje Lahne
13. Structure BUilding From Below: more on Survive and covert movement, Winfried Lechner
14. On Transparent Adjuncts in Japanese, Yoichi Miyamoto
15. Feature-splitting Internal merge: the case of Tough-Constructions, Miki Obata and Samuel David Epstein
Bibliography
Language Index
Subject Index

Ways of Structure Building

Edited by Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria and Vidal Valmala

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Author Information

Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria is Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country. Her research interest focuses on the syntax-semantics interface, with particular attention to the grammar of temporal relations, wh-questions, and focus. She is the author of Interface Licensing Conditions on Negative Polarity Items: A Theory of Polarity and Tense Interactions (UPV-EHU, 2004), and co-editor of Theoretical Issues at the Morphology-Syntax Interface (ASJU, UPV-EHU, 1997), Romance Linguistics: Theoretical Perspectives (John Benjamins, 1998), and Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque: Syntax and Semantics (John Benjamins, in press). She has published her work in various journals and edited volumes.

Vidal Valmala is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country. Among his research topics are ellipsis and the syntactic realization of topic and focus. He has published articles on floating quantification, fragments, VP-ellipsis, and Comparative Correlatives.

Contributors:

Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria, Unversity of the Basque Country
Vidal Valmala, University of the Basque Country
Jun Abe, Tohoku Gakuin University
Theresa Biberauer, University of Cambridge
Zeljko Boskovic, University of Connecticut
Dirk Bury, University College London
Barbara Citko, University of Washington in Seattle
Samuel David Epstein, University of Michigan
Antonio Fábregas, University of Tromsø
Martina Gracanin-Yuksek, Middle East Technical University
Norbert Hornstein, University of Maryland
Hisatsugu Kitahara, Keio University
Antje Lahne, University of Konstanz
Winfried Lechner, University of Athens
Yoichi Miyamoto, Osaka University
Jairo Nunes, Universidade de Sao Paulo
Miki Obata, Mie University
T. Daniel Seely, Eastern Michigan University
Michelle Sheehan, University of Cambridge
Hiroyuki Uchida, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mark de Vries, University of Groningen

Ways of Structure Building

Edited by Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria and Vidal Valmala

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Reviews and Awards

"All the contributions in this volume are high-quality papers suggesting a highly indigenous solution to a particular issue regarding structure building within the MP...I recommend this volume for all researchers and advanced graduate students in the minimalist, generative syntax enterprise."--Linguist List