Coreference, Modality, and Focus
Studies on the syntax–semantics interface
Editors
| Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
| Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework, mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the syntax-semantics interface. The major concerns are coreference relations, modals and modality, and focus/ellipsis. More specifically, the contributions present research findings from different languages, often adopting a comparative perspective, and include studies on sub-extraction from subjects and objects; on obviation and Control structures; on specificity and Weak Crossover effects; and on reconstruction without movement, as well as papers that address the scopal interactions between tense/aspect and modals; the syntactic and semantic properties of different types of left-periphery operators; and the role focus plays in elliptical constructions.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 111] 2007. xii, 239 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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PrefaceLuis Eguren and Olga Fernández-Soriano | pp. vii–xii
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Tensed modalsClaudia Borgonovo and Sarah Cummins | pp. 1–18
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Weak Crossover, specificity and LF chainsMichelangelo Falco | pp. 19–44
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Conditions on sub-extractionÁngel J. Gallego and Juan Uriagereka | pp. 45–70
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Focus, exhaustivity, and deletion in English PseudogappingKirsten Gengel | pp. 71–88
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Reconstruction and scope in exclamative sentencesRaquel González-Rodríguez | pp. 89–112
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Reconstruction without movementNicolas Guilliot and Nouman Malkawi | pp. 113–131
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From polarity to modality: Some (a)symmetries between bien and sí in SpanishM. Lluïsa Hernanz | pp. 133–169
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Beyond the Infinitive vs. Subjunctive Rivalry: Surviving changes in MoodItziar San Martin | pp. 171–190
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Romance infinitives with subjects, subjunctive obviation and Control TheoryIoanna Sitaridou | pp. 191–219
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On the syntactic features of epistemic and root modalsKaren Zagona | pp. 221–236
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Subject index | pp. 237–239
Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General