Full Description
This book contributes to the ongoing empirical, conceptual, and meta-theoretical debates regarding the merits and drawbacks of the cartographic program in linguistic theory. Although cartography has its roots in the study of the left periphery, its empirical scope has expanded significantly over the years and now covers a wide range of domains such as argument structure, modification, and constituent order. The chapters in this volume offer a critical examination of the cartographic assumption that there is a rich array of functional projections whose hierarchical order is fixed and determined by Universal Grammar. They discuss the nature of these cartographic hierarchies and their relation to the central theoretical goal of explanatory adequacy: are functional hierarchies an irreducible property of Universal Grammar (hence constituting part of the "residue" beyond the scope of principled explanation), or are they emergent, deriving from independent principles that do not require a further enrichment of Universal Grammar?
Contents
1: Ángel J. Gallego and Dennis Ott: Introduction
2: Julia Bacskai-Atkari: Complementizers, word order, and a non-cartographic approach to the CP domain
3: Ignacio Bosque: A quasi-cartographic approach to Spanish auxiliaries
4: Guglielmo Cinque: Externalization and meaningless movement
5: Thomas Ernst: Semantic principles of adverbial distribution
6: Ricardo Etxepare: Wh-distributives in Basque
7: Aritz Irurtzun: The syntactic nature of focus
8: Manuel Leonetti and Victoria Escandell-Vidal: Focus structure and assertion in relative clauses: Evidence from Spanish
9: Luigi Rizzi: On the status of criterial markers in the left periphery of the clause
10: Vieri Samek-Lodovici: Focalization in-situ vs focus projection: Focused topics, focused questions, focused heads, and other challenges
11: Volker Struckmeier: Cartographic 'explanations' need explanations themselves: Relations to the rescue
