Full 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.
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 Fábregas
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 Medová & Bartosz Wiland
Glossary
Index
