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About this book
The essays in this volume, dating from 1991 onwards, focus on highly characteristic constructions of English, Romance languages, and German.
Among clause-internal structures, the most puzzling are English double objects, particle constructions, and non-finite complementation (infinitives, participles and gerunds). Separate chapters in Part I offer relatively complete analyses of each. These analyses are integrated into the framework of Emonds (2000), wherein a simplified subcategorization theory fully expresses complement selection. Principal results of that framework constitute the initial essay of Part I. areas.
The self-contained essays can all be read separately. They are rich in empirical documentation, and yet in all of them, solutions are constructed around a coherent, relatively simple theoretical core.
In Romance languages, classic generative debates have singled out clitic and causative constructions as the most challenging. Separate essays in Part II lay out the often complex paradigms and propose detailed syntactic solutions, simple in their overall architecture yet rich in detailed predictions.
Concerning movements to clausal edges, especially controversial topics include passives, English parasitic gaps, and the nature of verb-second systems exemplified by German.. The essays in Part III each use rather surprising but still theoretically constrained structural accounts to solve thorny problems in all three.
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Table of contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue to Discovering Syntax
- Chapter 1. Types of syntactic categories and features
- Chapter 2. The restricted complement space of lexical frames
- Chapter 3. The autonomy of the (syntactic) lexicon and syntax: Insertion conditions for derivational and inflectional morphemes
- Chapter 4. Secondary predication, stationary particles, and silent prepositions
- Chapter 5. Projecting indirect objects
- Chapter 6. The flat structure economy of semi-lexical heads
- Chapter 7. How clitics license null phrases: A theory of the lexical interface
- Chapter 8. English indirect passives
- Chapter 9. A theory of phrase structure based on Extended Projections
- Chapter 10. The lower operator position with parasitic gaps
- Chapter 11. Unspecified categories as the key to root constructions
- Backmatter