基本説明
This collection deals with central issues in the syntax of clauses and their interfaces with the conceptual-intentional system. The book targets the syntactic properties that have an impact on interpretation of discourse and temporal dependencies, functional fields including CP, pragmatic markers at the syntax-pragmatic interface, and on the possible parameterization of these properties.
Full Description
This collection deals with central issues in the syntax of clauses and their interfaces with the conceptual-intentional system. The book targets the syntactic properties that have an impact on the interpretation of discourse and temporal dependencies, functional fields including CP, pragmatic markers at the syntax-pragmatic interface, and on the possible parameterization of these properties. The papers in this volume bring to the fore the role of the edges (specifier and adjuncts), heads and projections in the grammar and at the interfaces. They address the question to what extent the relevant configurations at the level of edges, head, and projections determine the syntax/semantic, semantic/pragmatic connections. The contributions clarify the notion of edge and bring evidence that this notion is core to the analysis of various phenomena at the left periphery of clauses and phrases. This volume also discusses functional heads and their projections, particularly insofar as the properties of these heads determine the composition of the CP field, and cases where a CP may or may not be projected.
Contents
1. List of contributors; 2. Introduction (by Di Sciullo, Anna Maria); 3. Part I. Edges; 4. Why edges are needed (by Boeckx, Cedric); 5. Bare nouns with different edges (by Ihsane, Tabea); 6. Implicit agentivity without agents in the syntax: A crosslinguistic analysis of SE-verbs (by Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia); 7. On the edge-feature of particles, interjections, and short answers (by Munaro, Nicola); 8. The grammar of polarity particles in Romanian (by Farkas, Donka F.); 9. Part II. Heads and projections; 10. Evidentials as generalized functional heads (by Speas, Peggy); 11. On the pre-theoretical notion phrasal head: Ignoring the left periphery is always at your own risk (by Grosu, Alexander); 12. Predication and the nature of non-finite relatives in Romance (by Giurgea, Ion); 13. On the asymmetry of root versus embedded clauses: Evidence from Shipibo second position clitics (by Camacho, Jose); 14. The cartography of phases: Facts and inference in Meiteilon (by Kidwai, Ayesha); 15. Index
