Overview

The overarching theme of this volume is one of the central concerns of syntactic theory: How local is syntax, and what are the measures of syntactic locality? It is argued here that movement and anaphoric relations are governed by a unified concept of locality: the phase. On an empirical level, Beyond Coherence brings together three strands of research on German syntax: ‘coherence’, the study of (reduced) infinitive constructions; the possessor dative construction, with a dative nominal playing the dual role of possessor and affectee; and binding, the distribution of anaphors and pronominals. These apparently disparate areas of research intersect in that the locality constraints on the possessor dative construction and binding allow the two phenomena to serve as probes for infinitival clause size. Offering a Minimalist ‘possessor raising’ and phase-based binding account, this work culminates in a discussion of the phase as the key to the various opacity effects observed in the book.

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Author:   Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (Swarthmore College)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   114
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9789027233783

ISBN 10:   9027233780
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   27 September 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Introduction; 3. Part I. Reduced infinitive constructions; 4. Chapter 1: Coherence and restructuring; 5. 1.1 (Non)finite complementation and transparency; 6. 1.2 Coherence, non-coherence, and a third construction; 7. 1.3 A typology of (non-)restructuring; 8. Part II. The possessor dative construction; 9. Chapter 2: German possessor datives: Raised and affected; 10. 2.1 Introduction; 11. 2.2 Scope of the chapter; 12. 2.3 Possessor raising; 13. 2.4 Possessor datives in a framework of dynamic structure-building; 14. 2.5 Residual issues; 15. Chapter 3: Possessor raising as coherence diagnostic; 16. 3.1 Scrambling and long passive as diagnostics for infinitival clause size; 17. 3.2 Possessor datives: A more reliable probe; 18. 3.3 Possessor datives in the context of AcIs; 19. Part III. Coherence by phase; 20. Chapter 4: A phase-based binding account of (non-)complementarity in German; 21. 4.1 Introduction; 22. 4.2 Previous accounts; 23. 4.3 Binding domains and agentivity; 24. 4.4 Taking the analysis to the next phase; 25. Chapter 5: Binding, possessor datives, and phasehood; 26. 5.1 Parallels between binding and possessor datives as probes for transparency; 27. 5.2 The phase as the key to opacity effects; 28. Appendix A; 29. Appendix B; 30. Bibliography; 31. Name index; 32. Subject index

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