Lexicon and Grammar

The English Syntacticon

Joseph E. Emonds

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783110166897
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110872996
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Author’s academic biography
• Chapter 1. Categories and feature inventories of Universal Grammar
• 1.1 A theory and practice of well-formed lexical entries
• 1.2 Types of syntactic categories and features
• 1.3 A theory of phrase structure as Extended Projections
• 1.4 The interplay among derivations, the Lexicon, and Economy Principles
• 1.5 An excursus into IP reference and economy at the LF Interface
• Chapter 2. Subcategorization: Syntax as the material basis of semantics
• 2.1 Advantages of classical subcategorization
• 2.2 Extending and restricting subcategorization to syntactic features
• 2.3 Syntactic vs. semantic selection: sisterhood is powerful
• 2.4 Determining Theta Roles by interpretive principles
• 2.5 Indeterminacy of object roles: the LOCATION feature on V
• 2.6 Indeterminacy of subject roles: variation in principal role
• 2.7 A Gedanken Experiment for learning lexical entries
• Chapter 3. Subcategorization inside words: Morphology as grammatical compounding
• 3.1 Marked and unmarked headedness: English vs. Japanese
• 3.2 The independence of head directionality and domain size: French word order
• 3.3 Combining word-internal and phrasal trees
• 3.4 Conflating syntactic and morphological subcategorization
• 3.5 Where it’s at: Morphology as a special case of compounding
• 3.6 Relating morphological typology to free form properties
• 3.7 Dictionary and Syntacticon: a new slant on lexical research
• Chapter 4. Multi-level lexical insertion: Explaining Inflection and Derivation
• 4.1 The bifurcated lexical model: Dictionary and Syntacticon
• 4.2 Levels of lexical insertion
• 4.3 Defining and dividing morphology
• 4.4 Inflectional morphology as late insertion
• 4.5 Alternative Realization on free morphemes
• 4.6 Derivational morphology: the arguments of lexically derived forms
• 4.7 English nominalizations: confirming the Syntacticon model
• 4.8 Expanded list of differences between the Dictionary and the Syntacticon
• Chapter 5. Passive syntactic structures
• 5.1 The common syntax of Verbal and Adjectival passives
• 5.2 Differences between Verbal and Adjectival passives
• 5.3 Two insertion levels in syntax: two types of passive Adjectives
• 5.4 The Verbal (inflectional) passive
• 5.5 Cross-linguistic variation in impersonal passives
• 5.6 The strange Case of perfect participles
• Chapter 6. The genesis of flat structures: Linking verbs, “light” verbs and “restructuring”
• 6.1 Surprising consequences of higher empty heads
• 6.2 Flatter lexical projections for predicate adjectives and participles
• 6.3 Flatter lexical projections induced by “light” verbs
• 6.4 Theoretical limits on possible flat structures
• 6.5 Differing lexical projections induced by restructuring verbs
• 6.6 The excess content of integrating syntax and morphology
• Appendix to chapter 6. Causative and perception verb “clause union”
• A.1 Burzio’s parallels between causatives and restructuring
• A.2 Kayne’s three patterns of Romance causatives
• A.3 Implications of a generalized definition of subject
• A.4 The syntax of internal arguments which are LF Subjects
• A.5 Revising the SSC and Principle A: Local Binding in LF
• Chapter 7. Subcategorization across syntactic empty heads
• 7.1 A review of Revised Classical Subcategorization
• 7.2 The source of intermediate empty heads
• 7.3 The Deep Case Filter: a basis for articulated structure and recursion
• 7.4 The range and genesis of adjunct constructions
• 7.5 Empty inflectional heads and economy of non-finite clauses
• 7.6 Present participles and the Revised Theta Criterion
• Chapter 8. The restricted complement space of lexical frames
• 8.1 The range of single phrase complements
• 8.2 Limitations on multiple complements
• 8.3 The Case of predicate attributes
• 8.4 The restrictive Syntactic Lexicon confronts open-ended Conceptual Space
• Chapter 9. Licensing and identification of null complements
• 9.1 Syntactic identification and subcategorization
• 9.2 Three hypotheses for understood complements
• 9.3 Discourse identification: Grimshaw’s null complement anaphora
• 9.4 Rizzi’s generic null objects
• 9.5 The impotence of the lexical item
• Chapter 10. Understood subjects: Generalizing Pro
• 10.1 Subcategorization and obligatory control
• 10.2 Pragmatic control
• 10.3 Imperatives, direct and embedded
• 10.4 Understood agents in passive clauses
• 10.5 Nature’s bottleneck
• Summary of principles
• Sample Lexicon
• References
• Subject Index