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Author:   Rajesh Bhatt
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter Mouton
Volume:   8
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9783110179521

ISBN 10:   3110179520
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   18 December 2006
Recommended Age:   College Graduate Student
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Contents Acknowledgements iv 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Dissertation Outline and Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2.1 Chapter 2: The Syntax of Infinitival Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2.2 Chapter 3: Non-Modal Infinitival Relative Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2.3 Chapter 4: The Distribution and Interpretation of Infinitival Questions 6 1.2.4 Chapter 5: Ability Modals and their Actuality Entailments . . . . . . 8 2 The syntax of Infinitival Relatives 9 2.1 Subject infinitival relatives as Reduced Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2 Non-subject Infinitival Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.3 The Modality of Infinitival Relatives and Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.3.1 Proposal for Object Infinitival Relatives and Infinitival Questions . . 15 2.3.2 Proposal for Subject Infinitival Relatives and Infinitival Questions . . 16 2.4 Structures for Reduced Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.4.1 Kayne (1994)’s proposal for Reduced Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.4.1.1 Kayne (1994)’s general proposal for Relative Clauses . . . . 17 2.4.1.2 Kayne (1994)’s proposal for Reduced Relatives . . . . . . . 18 2.5 Arguments for a Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.5.1 The Candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.5.2 The Argument from ‘Idioms’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 x 2.5.2.1 A related argument from Subcategorization . . . . . . . . . 23 2.5.3 The argument from Binding Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 2.5.4 Amount Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2.5.5 Scope Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 2.5.6 Lower Readings of Adjectival Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 2.6 My proposal for Reduced Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 2.6.1 Version 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 2.6.2 On the nature of Direct Predication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 2.6.3 Version 2: Accommodating Reconstruction into Reduced and Finite Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 2.6.3.1 A comparison with Sauerland (1998) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 2.6.4 Reduced Relatives and Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 2.6.5 Interpreting the New Proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 2.7 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3 Non-Modal Subject Infinitival Relatives 42 3.1 Properties of Non-modal Infinitival Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3.1.1 Non-Modal Infinitival Relatives allow for Modal Readings too . . . . 46 3.2 A Raising Relative Clause analysis of Non-modal Infinitival Relatives . . . . 47 3.2.1 Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 3.2.2 Interpreting the Raising Analysis (for Reduced Relatives) . . . . . . . 49 3.2.3 Raising Analysis applied to Non-modal Infinitival Relatives . . . . . 50 3.3 Motivations for the Movement of Superlative est/Ordinals/only . . . . . . . 51 3.3.1 A semantics for Superlatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.3.2 Ordinals and Nominal only: Focus Sensitivity and Analysis . . . . . 56 3.4 More on the Raising Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 3.4.1 Structural Characterization of Superlatives, Ordinals, and only . . . . 59 3.4.2 Licensing from inside the infinitival clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 3.5 A prediction: Loss of Association with Focus with Non-modal Infinitival Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 3.5.1 Loss of Focus-sensitivity of Superlatives, only, ordinals . . . . . . . . 64 xi 3.5.2 A Further Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 3.6 Lower Readings: Further evidence for the Raising Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 69 3.6.1 Evidence for Reconstruction from NPI licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 3.6.2 Evidence for Reconstruction from the behavior of Numeral Modifiers 72 3.6.3 Low Readings and Negative Island Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 3.6.4 Parentheticals: a potential alternative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 3.7 Interpretation of the non-modal infinitival clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 3.7.1 A first semantics for first . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 3.7.1.1 first with possessive NPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 3.7.1.2 Digression: Larson & Cho (1998)’s Analysis of former . . . . 77 3.7.1.3 Back from the Digression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 3.7.2 first with Non-modal Infinitival Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 3.7.3 Simultaneity between ‘head’ NP and Relative Clause . . . . . . . . . 80 3.7.3.1 Simultaneity effects with Finite Relative Clauses and first . 82 3.7.3.2 On why there is Reconstruction with first . . . . . . . . . . . 84 3.7.4 A Prediction: Locus of Change of State is Undetermined . . . . . . . 87 3.7.5 Temporal Properties of the Infinitival Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 3.7.5.1 When is first(P) evaluated? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 3.7.5.2 Aspectual Characterization of the Infinitival Clause . . . . 91 3.7.5.3 A covert Perfect? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 3.7.5.4 A problem with assuming a Covert Perfect and a solution . 93 3.7.5.5 A Difference between the Covert and the Overt Perfect . . 96 3.7.5.6 Perfective Aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 3.7.5.7 A Minimal Crosslinguistic Variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 3.7.6 Future interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 3.8 Appendix A: A semantics for Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses . . . . . 102 3.9 Appendix B: Semantics of only and first . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 3.9.1 only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 3.9.2 Ordinals (‘first’, ‘second’, : : :, ‘last’) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 3.10 Appendix C: An in situ licensor analysis of Non-modal Infinitival Relatives 110 3.11 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 xii 4 The Distribution and Interpretation of Wh-infinitivals 114 4.1 Infinitival Question Complements: Distribution and Subcategorization . . . 115 4.1.1 The Distribution of Infinitival Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 4.1.1.1 A Classification of Predicates that take Finite Interrogative Complements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 4.1.1.2 Infinitival Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 4.1.2 Infinitival Questions and Subcategorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 4.1.2.1 Non-interrogative Infinitival Complements of Predicates that take Infinitival Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 4.1.2.2 Some Subcategorizational Generalizations . . . . . . . . . . 121 4.1.2.3 One Predicate or Many . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 4.2 Modality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 4.2.1 Nature of Infinitival Modality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 4.2.2 Force of Infinitival Modality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 4.2.2.1 The effect of the wh-word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 4.2.2.2 The effect of the embedding predicate . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 4.2.2.3 The effect of the infinitival question predicate . . . . . . . . 135 4.2.2.4 The effect of the context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 4.3 The Modality in Infinitival Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 4.3.1 Could Readings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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