Principles and Parameters of Syntactic Saturation (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)

Contents......Page 14
Selected List of Definitions, Diagrams, and Overview Tables......Page 18
Introduction......Page 22
1.1 The Tension between Descriptive and Explanatory Adequacy......Page 25
1.2 A Model of Explanation: X-bar Theory......Page 32
1.3 The Bounds of Analytic Power......Page 35
1.3.1 Motivation for a Theory of Possible Parameters......Page 37
1.3.2 The Lower Bound of Analytic Power (Observational and Descriptive Adequacy)......Page 39
1.3.3 The Upper Bound of Analytic Power (Explanatory Adequacy)......Page 44
1.4 Locality Constraints on Lexical Information: The Variation Theorem......Page 50
1.5 A Theory of Possible Parameters: The Identical Projection Function Model......Page 59
1.6 The Atomization Problem......Page 66
1.7 A General Theory of Structure Building: Morphology within the IPF-Model......Page 74
1.8 Summary......Page 83
2.2 Documenting Directionality in Modern Germanic......Page 86
2.3 Summary......Page 100
3.2 Clauses with and without Overt Complementizers......Page 102
3.3 Empirical Consequences of the Sentence Trace Universal......Page 113
3.3.1 Raising, Unaccusative, and Passive Verbs......Page 114
3.3.3 Platzack on Swedish......Page 117
3.3.4 Preposition Stranding......Page 118
3.3.6 Resumptive Pronouns......Page 120
3.3.7 Case Agreement......Page 121
3.3.8 Scrambling......Page 122
3.4 Conclusion......Page 130
4.1 The Theoretical Relevance of the Pied Piping Phenomenon......Page 134
4.2 Pied Piping Possibilities in Germanic......Page 135
4.3 Relative Clauses in English......Page 147
4.4.1 Introduction......Page 151
4.4.2 Specifiers......Page 152
4.4.3 Complements......Page 154
4.5.1 Modifiers......Page 161
4.5.2 θ-Marked Phrases......Page 165
4.5.3 Specifiers of C´......Page 170
4.6 Summary and Discussion......Page 174
5.1 Introduction......Page 178
5.2 Free Word Order Structures in German and Constraints on Movement......Page 183
5.2.1 Extraction from PP and the Left Branch Condition......Page 184
5.2.3 The Coordinate Structure Constraint......Page 189
5.2.4 The Subject Condition......Page 190
5.2.5 Anti-Crossover Effects......Page 191
5.2.6 Parasitic Gaps......Page 193
5.2.8 Evidence from Language Acquisition......Page 195
5.2.9 Consequences of the Syntactic and Acquisitional Properties of the Free Word Order Structures......Page 197
5.3 The Properties of Sentence-Internal Chains......Page 198
5.3.1 DP Can Undergo the Movement Process......Page 199
5.3.2 PP Can Undergo the Movement Process......Page 200
5.3.3 The Moved Element Is in a Non-Case Marked Position......Page 201
5.3.4 The Movement Licenses Parasitic Gaps......Page 203
5.3.5 The Mover Can Strand a Preposition......Page 204
5.3.7 The Moved Element Can Pied-Pipe Its Mother Constituent......Page 206
5.4.1 Operator and Argument Features......Page 208
5.4.2 Characterization of Heavy-NP Shift......Page 212
5.4.3 Characterization of Scrambling......Page 213
5.5 Other Free Word Order Languages......Page 220
5.5.2 Czech/Russian (Slavic)......Page 221
5.5.5 Warlpiri (Australian)......Page 222
5.5.9 Hindi......Page 223
5.6 Scrambling and Binding Theory......Page 224
Epilogue......Page 230
Bibliography......Page 234
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