Research Catalog

Title

The Blackwell companion to syntax / edited by Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk ; with editorial assistance from Rob Goedemans and Bart Hollebrandse.

Publication

Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Everaert, Martin
• Riemsdijk, Henk C. van

Description

5 v. : ill.; 26 cm. in 27 cm. slipcase. +

Summary

"This long-awaited reference work marks the culmination of numerous years of research and international collaboration by the world's leading syntacticians. There exists no other comparable collection of research that documents the development of syntax in this way. Under the editorial direction of Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk, this 5 volume set comprises 70 case studies commissioned specifically for this volume. The 80 contributors are drawn from an international group of prestigious linguists, including Joe Emonds, Sandra Chung, Susan Rothstein, Adriana Belletti, Jim Huang, Howard Lasnik, and Marcel den Dikken, among many others."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics ; [19]

Uniform Title

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics [19].

Subject

Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax

Genre/Form

CD-ROMs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanyingf CD-ROM: PC or Macintosh ; web browser ; CD-ROM drive.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

v. 1. The accusative plus infinitive construction in English / Jeffrey T. Runner. Adjectival passives / Joseph Emonds. Adjectives : order within DP and attributive APs / Daniel Valois. Adverb classes and adverb placement / Denis Delfitto. Affectedness / Mona Anderson. Analytic causatives / Maria Teresa Guasti. A-not-a questions / Paul Hagstrom. Bare plurals / Denis Delfitto. Binding theory : terms and concepts / Eric Reuland. Bridge phenomena / Naomi Erteschik-Schir. Case (with special reference to Japanese) / Kazuko Inoue. Chinese Ba / Yen-Hui Audrey Li. Clitic climbing / Reineke Bok-Bennema. Clitic doubling / Elena Anagnostopoulou. Comparative deletion and subdeletion / Norbert Corver. Conditionals / Rajesh Bhatt and Roumyana Pancheva. Contraction / Grant Goodall -- v. 2. Copular sentences / Andrea Moro. Derived nominals / Bożena Rozwadowska. Double nominatives in Japanese / Koichi Tateishi. Double object constructions / Joseph Emonds and Rosemarie Whitney. Ellipsis in DP / Anne Lobeck. Embedded root phenomena / Caroline Heycock. Existential sentences and expletive There / Andrea Moro. Extraposition / Mark Baltin. Focus movement (with special reference to Hungarian) / Kriszta Szendrői. Free relatives / Henk van Riemsdijk. Freezing effects / Norbert Corver. Gapping / Khyle Johnson. Gerundive nominalizations / Gary Milsark. Grammatical verbs (with special references to light verbs) / Tara Monahan. Honorifics / Nobuko Hasegawa. Icelandic logophoric anaphora / Eric Reuland. Implicit arguments / Rajesh Bhatt and Roumyana Pancheva. Inalienable possession / Jacqueline Guéron. Inverse linking / Robert May and Alan Bale. Left dislocation (including CLLD) / Artemis Alexiadou -- v. 3. Logophoricity / Eric Reuland. Long-distance binding in Asian languages / Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon, and C.-T. James Huang. Long-distance binding in Germanic languages / Eric Reuland. Long NP-movement / Howard Lasnik and Cedric Boeckx. Middles / Peter Ackema and Maaike Schoorlemmer. Mittelfeld phenomena : (scrambling in Germanic) / Hubert Haider. Multiple-wh-questions / Veneeta Dayal. N-words and negative concord / Anastasia Giannakidou. Object shift / Sten Vikner. Partial wh-movement / Gisbert Fanselow. (Past) participle agreement / Adriana Belletti. Phrasal stress and syntax / María Luisa Zubizarreta and Jean-Roger Vergnaud. Pied-piping / Julia Horvath. Preposition stranding / Paul Law. Properties of VOS languages / Sandra Chung -- v. 4. Quantifier scope ambiguities / Katalin É. Kiss. Reconstruction, binding, and scope / Dominique Sportiche. Resumption / James McCloskey. The SE-anaphor and its role in argument realization / Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin. Secondary predicates in Australian languages / Eva Schultze-Berndt. Secondary predication / Susan Rothstein. Serial verbs / Pieter Muysken and Tonjes Veenstra. Sluicing / Jacon Merchant. Specificational copular sentences and pseudoclefts / Marcel den Dikken. Split topicalization / Hanneka van Hoof. The spray-load alternation / Maya Arad. Strong vs. weak islands / Anna Szabolcsi. Stylistic fronting / Anders Holmberg. Subextraction / Norbert Corver. Subject clitics and complex inversion / Jean-Yves Pollock. Subjunctives / Joseph Quer. Syntactic haplology / Ad Neeleman and Hans van de Koot -- v. 5. The syntax of modal auxiliaries / Sjef Barbiers. The syntax of quantified pharases and quantitative clitics / Anna Cardinaletti and Giuliana Giusti. Temporal reference / Fabio Pianesi. Topicalization in Asian languages / Liejiong Xu. Unexpected wide-scope phenomena / E.G. Ruys. Verb clusters, verb raising, and restructuring / Susi Wurmbrand. Verb particle constructions / Martin Haiden. Wh-in-situ / Josef Bayer.

ISBN

• 1405114851 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781405114851

LCCN

^^2005026831

OCLC

61529829

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library