Research Catalog

Title

Symmetry, shared labels and movement in syntax / Andreas Blümel.

Author

Blümel, Andreas

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]
• ©2017

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Description

viii, 166 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

What is the trigger for displacement phenomena in natural language syntax? And how can constraints on syntactic movement be derived from interface conditions and so-called Third Factor principles? Within the Minimalist Program a standard answer to the first question is that it is driven by morphosyntactic features. This monograph challenges that view and suggests that the role of features in driving syntactic computation has been overestimated. Instead it proposes that "labeling"--the detection of a prominent element in sets formed by Merge--plays a role in driving transformations, and labeling itself is understood to derive from an interplay of efficient computation and the need for a label at the Conceptual-Intentional systems. It explores this idea in four empirical domains: Long-distance dependencies, Criterial Freezing-phenomena, nested dependencies and ATB-movement. The languages considered include English, German and Hebrew.

Series Statement

Studia grammatica ; 81

Uniform Title

Studia grammatica ; 81.

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
• Generative grammar
• Asymmetry (Linguistics)
• Parallelism (Linguistics)

Note

• Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Frankfurt am Main, 2014.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Minimalist reflections -- Propagating symmetry -- Shared labels and criterial freezing -- In defense of forked chains -- Summary and outlook.

ISBN

• 9783110520125
• 9783110522518 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783110520187 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 973400494
• SCSB-11520685

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Harvard Library