- 172 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Locality in Grammar: From Narrow Syntax to Interfaces investigates the operation of locality conditions in syntax and semantics from a cross-linguistic perspective.
It is claimed that there are two different types of locality conditions. One is the Generalized Minimality Condition (GMC), and the other is the Phase Impenetrability Condition (PIC). This book demonstrates that these locality conditions play different roles in different computational components of human language, and, therefore, cannot be unified as one constraint as proposed in the literature.
The main idea of the book is that the two different locality conditions are sensitive to the difference between syntactic derivation and semantic interpretation and that of overt and covert syntactic derivations. Further investigation shows a more fine-grained distinction must be made between syntactic computations. It is true that GMC does not constrain overt syntactic derivations and PIC does not play a role in semantic interpretations; however, they both regulate covert syntactic computations.
This book will inform postgraduate students and scholars in the field of linguistics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theoretical Foundations: Two Concepts of Locality
- 3 Locality in Incorporation: Evidence from Cliticization in French
- 4 Locality in Phrasal Movement: Evidence from Passivization in Chinese
- 5 Locality at Covert Syntax: Evidence from Quantifier Raising
- 6 Locality in the Semantic Component: Evidence from the Respectively-Interpretation
- 7 Conclusions
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index