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Over the last two decades, functional heads have been one of the privileged objects of research in generative linguistics. However, within this line of inquiry, two alternative approaches have developed: while the cartographic project considers crosslinguistic evidence as crucial for a complete mapping of functional heads in universal grammar, minimalist accounts tend to consider structural economy as literally involving a reduction in the number of available heads. In this volume, some of the most influential linguists who have participated in this long-lasting debate offer their recent work in short, self-contained case studies. The contributions cover all the main layers of recently studied syntactic structure, including such major areas of empirical research as grammaticalization and language change, standard and non-standard varieties, interface issues, and morphosyntax. Functional Heads attempts to map aspects of syntactic structure according to the cartographic approach, and in doing so demonstrates that the differences between cartography and minimalism are perhaps more superficial than substantial.

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Author:   Laura Brugé (Researcher, Researcher, University of Venice) ,  Anna Cardinaletti (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Venice) ,  Giuliana Giusti (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Venice) ,  Nicola Munaro (Researcher, Researcher, University of Venice)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.870kg
ISBN:  

9780199746736

ISBN 10:   0199746737
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   28 June 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction, The editors Section 1: On the cartography of functional structure From modal particle to interrogative marker: A study of German denn, Josef Bayer Lexical complementizers and headless relatives, Paola Benincà The theory of syntax and the representation of indexicality, Alessandra Giorgi Wh-Movement as topic movement, Günther Grewendorf 'Je est un autre.' Subject positions, point of view and the neuter pronoun tet in West Flemish, Jacqueline Guéron and Liliane Haegeman Number within the DP: A view from Oceanic, Elisabeth Pearce Mirative and focusing uses of the Catalan particle pla, Gemma Rigau On the nature of the V2 system in Medieval Romance, Giampaolo Salvi A note on the Spanish Left Periphery, María Luisa Zubizarreta Section 2: On movements and constraints Moving verbal chunks in the low functional field, Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi Articles as partitives, Ignacio Bosque and M. Carme Picallo Toward an analysis of French Hyper-Complex Inversion, Richard S. Kayne and Jean-Yves Pollock Samoan ergativity as double passives, Hilda Koopman Rivisiting ""Suspended Affixation"" and other coordinate mysteries, Jaklin Kornfilt Backward Binding and the C-T phase: A case of Syntactic Haplology, Christer Platzack On the feature composition of participial light verbs in French, Andrew Radford and Michèle Vincent A note on dative incompatibility suppression, Henk van Riemsdijk Hallmarks on Portuguese syntax, Alain Rouveret Notes on wh in situ in French, Ur Shlonsky Re re again. What French re shows about VP structures, have and be raising, and the syntax/phonology interface, Dominique Sportiche The structural object position of verbs and nouns, Knut Tarald Taraldsen Section 3: On the nature of functional heads On the double definiteness, aspect, and word order in Old and Modern Scandinavian, Werner Abraham The order of verbal affixes and functional structure in Imbabura Quichua, Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon Number as a Feature, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin Which is the extended projection above N?, Joseph Emonds On the lexical-functional divide: The case of negation, M. Rita Manzini and Leonardo M. Savoia Diachrony and cartography: Paths of grammaticalisation and the clausal hierarchy, Ian Roberts Silent Heads, Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson and Joan Maling Postnominal adjectives in Greek indefinite noun phrases, Melita Stavrou Afterword, Giulio Lepschy and Lorenzo Renzi"

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Laura Brugé is a Researcher at the University of Venice. Anna Cardinaletti is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Venice. Giuliana Giusti is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Venice. Nicola Munaro is a Researcher at the University of Venice. Cecilia Poletto is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Frankfurt.

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