Morphology-Driven Syntax
A theory of V to I raising and pro-drop
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This book argues that syntactic parameters are set in a principled fashion on the basis of overt functional morphology. The main focus of the book is on the different positions of the finite verb in the Germanic SVO languages. In addition, other syntactic phenomena (null subjects, transitive expletive constructions and object shift) and other language families (Romance, Semitic and Slavic) are discussed. A common explanation for all of the discussed phenomena is proposed: If and only if the features for “person” are distinctively marked by the agreement morphology, the agreement affixes are listed separately in the lexicon and project phrases of their own in syntax where they attract the verb to the head positions and allow the specifier positions to be filled by various phonologically (un)realized elements. Special attention is given to issues of historical development and child language acquisition.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 15] 1999. viii, 296 pp.
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments | p. vii
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I. Introduction | p. 1
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II. Verb Movement in the Germanic Languages | p. 11
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III. Agreement Morphology in the Syntax and the Lexicon | p. 93
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IV. Diachronic Germanic Syntax and the Full Paradigm | p. 155
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V. Beyond Verb Movement in the Gemranic VO Languages | p. 205
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VI. Conclusions | p. 275
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Subject Index | p. 291
“This book addresses the syntactic problem of why the verb must move to Infl in some languages whereas it must stay in situ in others. Bernard Rohrbacher presents a solution to this problem after considering an impressive amount of data from a variety of Germanic languages (English, German, Mainland Scandinavian, Faroese, Icelandic, Yiddish) and even more interestingly, extends his predictions to Romance languages (Italian, French, European and Brazilian Portuguese).
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Javier Gutierrez-Rexach in Language 77:4
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