Full Description
Although in the early days of generative linguistics Slovenian was rarely called on in the development of theoretical models, the attention it gets has subsequently grown, so that by now it has contributed to generative linguistics a fair share of theoretically important data. With 13 chapters that all build on Slovenian data, this book sets a new milestone. The topics discussed in the volume range from Slovenian clitics, which are called on to shed new light on the intriguing Person-Case Constraint and to provide part of the evidence for a new generalization relating the presence of the definite article and Wackernagel clitics, to functional elements such as the future auxiliary and possibility modals, the latter of which are discussed also from the perspective of language change. Even within the relatively well-researched topics like wh-movement, new findings are presented, both in relation to the structure of the left periphery and to the syntax of relative clauses.
Contents
1. Introduction with a state of the art in generative Slovenian syntax (by Marusic, Franc Lanko); 2. On second position clitics crosslinguistically (by Boskovic, Zeljko); 3. Participles come back to Slovenian (by Browne, Wayles); 4. Restructuring restructuring (by Dobnik, Simon); 5. Clitics are/become Minimal(ist) (by Franks, Steven L.); 6. The left periphery of Slovenian relative clauses (by Hladnik, Marko); 7. Unaccusatives in Slovenian from a cross-linguistic perspective (by Ilc, Gasper); 8. The modal cycle vs. negation in Slovenian (by Marusic, Franc Lanko); 9. The left periphery of multiple wh-questions in Slovenian (by Mismas, Petra); 10. A relative syntax and semantics for Slovenian (by Mitrovic, Moreno); 11. The Slovenian future auxiliary biti as a tenseless gradable evidential modal: Inferential and concessive readings (by Rivero, Maria Luisa); 12. Not two sides of one coin: Clitic person restrictions and Icelandic quirky agreement (by Stegovec, Adrian); 13. Quo vadis, Slovenian bipartite pronouns? (by Zivanovic, Saso); 14. Language index; 15. Subject index
