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Structure at the bottom Chapter 1. Structure at the bottom 1 A01 01 JB code 734162865 Howard Lasnik Lasnik, Howard Howard Lasnik University of Maryland 2 A01 01 JB code 895162866 Juan Uriagereka Uriagereka, Juan Juan Uriagereka University of Maryland 01 01 JB code lfab.8.05van 06 10.1075/lfab.8.05van 19 39 21 Article 5 01 04 Chapter 2. The absent, the silent, and the audible Chapter 2. The absent, the silent, and the audible 01 04 Some thoughts on the morphology of silent verbs Some thoughts on the morphology of silent verbs 1 A01 01 JB code 310162867 Henk Riemsdijk Riemsdijk, Henk Henk Riemsdijk 01 01 JB code lfab.8.06ouh 06 10.1075/lfab.8.06ouh 41 66 26 Article 6 01 04 Chapter 3. Lexical change and the architecture of the Lexicon Chapter 3. Lexical change and the architecture of the Lexicon 1 A01 01 JB code 709162868 Jamal Ouhalla Ouhalla, Jamal Jamal Ouhalla 01 01 JB code lfab.8.07fab 06 10.1075/lfab.8.07fab 67 86 20 Article 7 01 04 Chapter 4. Dylan Thomas's meters Chapter 4. Dylan Thomas’s meters 1 A01 01 JB code 157162869 Nigel Fabb Fabb, Nigel Nigel Fabb University of Strathclyde 2 A01 01 JB code 453162870 Morris Halle Halle, Morris Morris Halle MIT 01 01 JB code lfab.8.08bow 06 10.1075/lfab.8.08bow 87 114 28 Article 8 01 04 Chapter 5. The metrical system of William Carlos Williams Chapter 5. The metrical system of William Carlos Williams 1 A01 01 JB code 20162871 John Bowers Bowers, John John Bowers 01 01 JB code lfab.8.09lak 06 10.1075/lfab.8.09lak 115 142 28 Article 9 01 04 Chapter 6. Linearization preferences given "Free Word Order"; subject preferences given ergativity Chapter 6. Linearization preferences given “Free Word Order”; subject preferences given ergativity 01 04 A look at Basque A look at Basque 1 A01 01 JB code 639162872 Itziar Laka Laka, Itziar Itziar Laka University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU 2 A01 01 JB code 686162873 Kepa Erdozia Erdozia, Kepa Kepa Erdozia University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU 01 01 JB code lfab.8.10cho 06 10.1075/lfab.8.10cho 143 169 27 Article 10 01 04 Chapter 7. On the fronting of non-contrastive topics in Germanic Chapter 7. On the fronting of non-contrastive topics in Germanic 1 A01 01 JB code 358162874 Gema Chocano Chocano, Gema Gema Chocano 01 01 JB code lfab.8.11emo 06 10.1075/lfab.8.11emo 171 200 30 Article 11 01 04 Chapter 8. Blackjack! Chapter 8. Blackjack! 01 04 21 arguments that agreeing adjectives are derived nominals 21 arguments that agreeing adjectives are derived nominals 1 A01 01 JB code 831162875 Joseph E. Emonds Emonds, Joseph E. Joseph E. 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Variability in the case patterns of causative formation in Romance and its implications 1 A01 01 JB code 714162878 Esther Torrego Torrego, Esther Esther Torrego 01 01 JB code lfab.8.15ind 06 10.1075/lfab.8.15ind 269 272 4 Miscellaneous 15 01 04 Index Index 01 JB code JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 https://benjamins.com Amsterdam NL 00 John Benjamins Publishing Company Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers onix@benjamins.nl 04 01 00 20120418 C 2012 John Benjamins Publishing Company D 2012 John Benjamins Publishing Company 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027208255 WORLD 03 01 JB 17 Google 03 https://play.google.com/store/books 21 01 00 Unqualified price 00 105.00 EUR 01 00 Unqualified price 00 88.00 GBP 01 00 Unqualified price 00 158.00 USD 656010352 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code LFAB 8 Eb 15 9789027274564 06 10.1075/lfab.8 00 EA E107 10 01 JB code LFAB 02 1877-6531 02 8.00 01 02 Language Faculty and Beyond Language Faculty and Beyond 11 01 JB code jbe-all 01 02 Full EBA collection (ca. 4,200 titles) 11 01 JB code jbe-2015-all 01 02 Complete backlist (3,208 titles, 1967–2015) 05 02 Complete backlist (1967–2015) 11 01 JB code jbe-2015-linguistics 01 02 Subject collection: Linguistics (2,773 titles, 1967–2015) 05 02 Linguistics (1967–2015) 01 01 Of Grammar, Words, and Verses In honor of Carlos Piera Of Grammar, Words, and Verses: In honor of Carlos Piera 1 B01 01 JB code 672153006 Esther Torrego Torrego, Esther Esther Torrego University of Massachusetts 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/672153006 01 eng 11 284 03 03 xi 03 00 272 03 01 23 808.1 03 2012 P311 04 Versification. 04 Linguistics. 10 LAN009000 12 CFK 24 JB code LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB code LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 01 06 02 00 Offers work by some major figures in the field of linguistics, addressing debates from the perspective of explanatory grammatical theory. Covering a range of empirical domains, this title examines the role of Economy in syntax and in syntactic interfaces with phonology and semantics, and their implications for processing. 03 00 This book offers new work by some major figures in the field of linguistics, addressing old debates from the perspective of current explanatory grammatical theory. These include paradigmatic relations among words, and agreeing adjectives and their grammatical source. Covering a broad range of empirical domains, the contributors of this volume examine the role of Economy in syntax and in syntactic interfaces with phonology and semantics, and their implications for processing. The evidence is taken from a great variety of languages, including Arabic dialects, Basque, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish. 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Structure at the bottom Chapter 1. Structure at the bottom 1 A01 01 JB code 734162865 Howard Lasnik Lasnik, Howard Howard Lasnik University of Maryland 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/734162865 2 A01 01 JB code 895162866 Juan Uriagereka Uriagereka, Juan Juan Uriagereka University of Maryland 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/895162866 01 eng 03 00

Generative Semantics set out to unearth the intricacies of paradigms by applying the same computational devices that helped generative grammar account for syntagmatic dependencies. The proposal failed on empirical grounds, as paradigmatic relations lack the productivity, transparency and systematicity of syntagmatic ones, which the computational approach is ideal at capturing. That said, Ray Jackendoff observed in the late eighties how one significant fact that the demised paradigm was designed to capture continued to be puzzling: logically possible though syntactically impossible gaps in lexical paradigms. The classic instance, due to Paul Postal, emphasizes the absence of verbs in any language whose meaning is, say, “meet x and relatives”, a construction whose description in Generative Semantics terms would violate the Coordinate Structure Constraint (other such impossible verbs can be constructed on the basis of any other syntactic principle). This note discusses how Jackendoff’s puzzle has not been resolved, and speculates that an Evo-Devo treatment of the puzzle might be possible if we think of the problem in two stages: at a language acquisition phase that lasts up to roughly puberty and at a consolidation phase that ensues thereafter.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.05van 06 10.1075/lfab.8.05van 19 39 21 Article 5 01 04 Chapter 2. The absent, the silent, and the audible Chapter 2. The absent, the silent, and the audible 01 04 Some thoughts on the morphology of silent verbs Some thoughts on the morphology of silent verbs 1 A01 01 JB code 310162867 Henk Riemsdijk Riemsdijk, Henk Henk Riemsdijk 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/310162867 01 eng 03 00

This chapter pursues the issue of phonetically silent lexical items (cf. Van Riemsdijk 2002). Two more empirical domains are examined, and in both cases I tentatively conclude that a silent verb is involved. The first of these concerns the copula/auxiliary be when combined with a directional PP in Dutch and Swiss German. The second has to do with what I call silent particle verbs in Dutch. In a last section I discuss the more general issue of how widespread the phenomenon of silent lexical verbs is? And if the impression that this is a relatively rare phenomenon is correct, why do languages make such a limited use of what looks like a very economical device?

01 01 JB code lfab.8.06ouh 06 10.1075/lfab.8.06ouh 41 66 26 Article 6 01 04 Chapter 3. Lexical change and the architecture of the Lexicon Chapter 3. Lexical change and the architecture of the Lexicon 1 A01 01 JB code 709162868 Jamal Ouhalla Ouhalla, Jamal Jamal Ouhalla 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/709162868 01 eng 03 00

This chapter explores new evidence from lexical change in connection with the debate concerning the nature of the Lexicon: whether it is root-based or word-based. A principled distinction is drawn between (genuine) lexical change, which affects roots, and grammaticalization, which affects selected words in sentence contexts and involves copying the targeted words. The data is mostly drawn from various Arabic dialects with implications for other similar Semitic languages such as Hebrew, where roots are purely consonantal and where words consist of consonantal roots and vocalic melodies in a non-concatinative arrangement.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.07fab 06 10.1075/lfab.8.07fab 67 86 20 Article 7 01 04 Chapter 4. Dylan Thomas's meters Chapter 4. Dylan Thomas’s meters 1 A01 01 JB code 157162869 Nigel Fabb Fabb, Nigel Nigel Fabb University of Strathclyde 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/157162869 2 A01 01 JB code 453162870 Morris Halle Halle, Morris Morris Halle MIT 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/453162870 01 eng 03 00

This chapter applies to Dylan Thomas’s metrical poetry the theory of meter developed in collaboration with Carlos Piera in Fabb and Halle (2008). We explain the various properties of the strict and loose meters used by Thomas. We also discuss some poems which can be analyzed as simultaneously in two meters at the same time: a strict syllable-counting meter and a loose stress-based meter. These polymetrical poems may reflect the influence, possibly mediated through Gerard Manley Hopkins, of the Welsh poetic tradition.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.08bow 06 10.1075/lfab.8.08bow 87 114 28 Article 8 01 04 Chapter 5. The metrical system of William Carlos Williams Chapter 5. The metrical system of William Carlos Williams 1 A01 01 JB code 20162871 John Bowers Bowers, John John Bowers 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/20162871 01 eng 03 00

This paper attempts to explain the metrical practice and theorizing of the American poet William Carlos Williams. Observing that in many of his short poems, the total number of syllables is exactly, or nearly exactly, equal to the total number of positions in an abstract metrical representation containing a regular line and stanza structure, it is argued that Williams invented a remarkably successful new type of prosody, termed ‘syllabic-rhythmic’ verse, in which relative ‘speed’ or ‘tempo’ is computed by comparing the actual number of syllables in a line to the number of positions in the metrical schema. Williams’ later theory of the ‘variable foot’ and the ‘triadic line’ is further accounted for by incorporating the unit ‘foot’ in metrical schemata.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.09lak 06 10.1075/lfab.8.09lak 115 142 28 Article 9 01 04 Chapter 6. Linearization preferences given "Free Word Order"; subject preferences given ergativity Chapter 6. Linearization preferences given “Free Word Order”; subject preferences given ergativity 01 04 A look at Basque A look at Basque 1 A01 01 JB code 639162872 Itziar Laka Laka, Itziar Itziar Laka University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/639162872 2 A01 01 JB code 686162873 Kepa Erdozia Erdozia, Kepa Kepa Erdozia University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/686162873 01 eng 03 00

In this chapter, we discuss some recent results from studies of word order processing in Basque that show that despite the apparently unconstrained freedom the language displays in linearizing major phrasal constituents in the sentence, native speakers’ processing strategies reveal a clear advantage favoring the linearization that corresponds to minimal syntactic computation. This is reflected in the time speakers employ to read sentences, and also in the electrophysiological signals of neural processing measured by means of event related potentials (ERPs). Moreover, when confronted with chains that are syntactically ambiguous, speakers process them as if they were unambiguous, choosing the minimal syntactic computation (SOV) given their head final grammar. We also suggest that the claim that processing preferences universally favour subjects might need to be revisited under the light of ergativity. We suggest that accounts of processing mechanisms and strategies based on notions like “subject of” or “object of” as explanatory primitives are likely to fall short, and we argue that accounts that take into consideration the impact of morphological variability in processing yield a more accurate view of the interplay of variant and invariant processing mechanisms of language.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.10cho 06 10.1075/lfab.8.10cho 143 169 27 Article 10 01 04 Chapter 7. On the fronting of non-contrastive topics in Germanic Chapter 7. On the fronting of non-contrastive topics in Germanic 1 A01 01 JB code 358162874 Gema Chocano Chocano, Gema Gema Chocano 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/358162874 01 eng 03 00

The present chapter proposes a novel account of the existence of fronted non-contrastive topics in German and its absence in Dutch. The main claim is that the relevant difference between the two languages reduces to the type of scrambling they have: only Dutch scrambling is triggered by an uninterpretable phi(person)-feature on v* (M. Richards 2008). The proposal, fully compatible with Chomsky’s (2000 and subsequent work) model of cyclic Spell-Out, is extended to cover the more restrictive pattern of non-contrastive topicalization in Swedish, absent in Danish and Norwegian.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.11emo 06 10.1075/lfab.8.11emo 171 200 30 Article 11 01 04 Chapter 8. Blackjack! Chapter 8. Blackjack! 01 04 21 arguments that agreeing adjectives are derived nominals 21 arguments that agreeing adjectives are derived nominals 1 A01 01 JB code 831162875 Joseph E. Emonds Emonds, Joseph E. Joseph E. Emonds 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/831162875 01 eng 03 00

Adjectives in many Indo-European languages morphologically agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number and case (if the language’s nouns can differ in case). These agreeing items seem to undermine several otherwise broad generalizations about morphology, word order and phrasal stress. Mysteriously, agreement in Germanic languages is limited to pre-nominal attributes, while all adjectives agree in Romance and Slavic languages. This essay proposes to analyze adjectival agreement in terms of a “Derived Nominal Hypothesis,” which assigns agreeing adjectives a word-internal nominal structure whose head is the agreement suffix itself. Consequently, these “adjectives” are actually Nouns (by Lieber’s Right Hand Head Rule), and so qualify as unexceptional heads of NPs. This supports Abney’s controversial conjecture for pre-nominal attributive adjectives (that they are heads of NPs). The Derived Nominal Hypothesis additionally succeeds in making several traditional observations on the behavior of agreeing adjectives fully compatible with current explanatory grammatical theory. It also accounts for many previously puzzling morphological properties of agreement and its syntactic distribution in those languages on which the study primarily focuses, namely Dutch, German, Latin and Czech. To a lesser extent, the essay touches on English adjectival word order and on common properties of Spanish and Latin agreement.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.12hen 06 10.1075/lfab.8.12hen 201 216 16 Article 12 01 04 Chapter 9. Connectivity and definiteness in an English equative construction Chapter 9. Connectivity and definiteness in an English equative construction 1 A01 01 JB code 505162876 Randall Hendrick Hendrick, Randall Randall Hendrick 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/505162876 01 eng 03 00

This chapter describes the syntactic behavior of constructions like the prospects are for peace. The construction is argued to be a sub-case of equational (or ‘specificational’) copular constructions. It is shown that the construction exhibits a definiteness effect on the subject of the copula and an indefiniteness effect on the complement of for, not shared by similar equational sentences. An explanation is provided that derives the descriptive pattern from general properties holding at the interface of the syntactic and semantic components in conjunction with local deletion operations operating at the interface with the phonological component.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.13sae 06 10.1075/lfab.8.13sae 217 236 20 Article 13 01 04 Chapter 10. On certain distributional gaps of Spanish possessives Chapter 10. On certain distributional gaps of Spanish possessives 01 04 A "Phrasal Spell-Out" account A “Phrasal Spell-Out” account 1 A01 01 JB code 118162877 Luis Sáez Sáez, Luis Luis Sáez 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/118162877 01 eng 03 00

In this paper I focus on the odd distribution of Spanish prepositional possessives inside nominals, and offer an explanation of those facts on the basis of a “Phrasal Spell-Out” approach to lexical insertion (cf. Caha 2009; Fábregas 2007a, 2007b, 2010). The core of the proposal is that certain contrasts much emphasized in previous accounts, like the one between weak and strong pronouns, are irrelevant for the problem at issue. Instead, I derive the distributional pattern of Spanish possessives by relying on feature contrasts like Oblique/Genitive, [±participant] and [±number], which provide the right natural classes for those elements.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.14tor 06 10.1075/lfab.8.14tor 237 267 31 Article 14 01 04 Chapter 11. Variability in the case patterns of causative formation in Romance and its implications Chapter 11. Variability in the case patterns of causative formation in Romance and its implications 1 A01 01 JB code 714162878 Esther Torrego Torrego, Esther Esther Torrego 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/714162878 01 eng 03 00

Taking Folli and Harley’s (2007) analysis of Italian fare-causatives as a starting point, and focusing on Spanish, I examine variation in the distribution of the subject of the embedded infinitive in so-called faire-causatives, and I suggest that there is a robust correlation between the size of the embedded complement and the licensing of particular arguments. I reach this conclusion by investigating syntactic complexity in the domain of hacer-causatives, showing that richer structures obtain when Case factors associated with dative-case-marked arguments are considered. I further show that the specific conditions imposed by these arguments are language particular and arise in the language independently of analytical causatives.

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Generative Semantics set out to unearth the intricacies of paradigms by applying the same computational devices that helped generative grammar account for syntagmatic dependencies. The proposal failed on empirical grounds, as paradigmatic relations lack the productivity, transparency and systematicity of syntagmatic ones, which the computational approach is ideal at capturing. That said, Ray Jackendoff observed in the late eighties how one significant fact that the demised paradigm was designed to capture continued to be puzzling: logically possible though syntactically impossible gaps in lexical paradigms. The classic instance, due to Paul Postal, emphasizes the absence of verbs in any language whose meaning is, say, “meet x and relatives”, a construction whose description in Generative Semantics terms would violate the Coordinate Structure Constraint (other such impossible verbs can be constructed on the basis of any other syntactic principle). This note discusses how Jackendoff’s puzzle has not been resolved, and speculates that an Evo-Devo treatment of the puzzle might be possible if we think of the problem in two stages: at a language acquisition phase that lasts up to roughly puberty and at a consolidation phase that ensues thereafter.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.05van 06 10.1075/lfab.8.05van 19 39 21 Article 5 01 04 Chapter 2. The absent, the silent, and the audible Chapter 2. The absent, the silent, and the audible 01 04 Some thoughts on the morphology of silent verbs Some thoughts on the morphology of silent verbs 1 A01 01 JB code 310162867 Henk Riemsdijk Riemsdijk, Henk Henk Riemsdijk 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/310162867 01 eng 03 00

This chapter pursues the issue of phonetically silent lexical items (cf. Van Riemsdijk 2002). Two more empirical domains are examined, and in both cases I tentatively conclude that a silent verb is involved. The first of these concerns the copula/auxiliary be when combined with a directional PP in Dutch and Swiss German. The second has to do with what I call silent particle verbs in Dutch. In a last section I discuss the more general issue of how widespread the phenomenon of silent lexical verbs is? And if the impression that this is a relatively rare phenomenon is correct, why do languages make such a limited use of what looks like a very economical device?

01 01 JB code lfab.8.06ouh 06 10.1075/lfab.8.06ouh 41 66 26 Article 6 01 04 Chapter 3. Lexical change and the architecture of the Lexicon Chapter 3. Lexical change and the architecture of the Lexicon 1 A01 01 JB code 709162868 Jamal Ouhalla Ouhalla, Jamal Jamal Ouhalla 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/709162868 01 eng 03 00

This chapter explores new evidence from lexical change in connection with the debate concerning the nature of the Lexicon: whether it is root-based or word-based. A principled distinction is drawn between (genuine) lexical change, which affects roots, and grammaticalization, which affects selected words in sentence contexts and involves copying the targeted words. The data is mostly drawn from various Arabic dialects with implications for other similar Semitic languages such as Hebrew, where roots are purely consonantal and where words consist of consonantal roots and vocalic melodies in a non-concatinative arrangement.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.07fab 06 10.1075/lfab.8.07fab 67 86 20 Article 7 01 04 Chapter 4. Dylan Thomas's meters Chapter 4. Dylan Thomas’s meters 1 A01 01 JB code 157162869 Nigel Fabb Fabb, Nigel Nigel Fabb University of Strathclyde 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/157162869 2 A01 01 JB code 453162870 Morris Halle Halle, Morris Morris Halle MIT 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/453162870 01 eng 03 00

This chapter applies to Dylan Thomas’s metrical poetry the theory of meter developed in collaboration with Carlos Piera in Fabb and Halle (2008). We explain the various properties of the strict and loose meters used by Thomas. We also discuss some poems which can be analyzed as simultaneously in two meters at the same time: a strict syllable-counting meter and a loose stress-based meter. These polymetrical poems may reflect the influence, possibly mediated through Gerard Manley Hopkins, of the Welsh poetic tradition.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.08bow 06 10.1075/lfab.8.08bow 87 114 28 Article 8 01 04 Chapter 5. The metrical system of William Carlos Williams Chapter 5. The metrical system of William Carlos Williams 1 A01 01 JB code 20162871 John Bowers Bowers, John John Bowers 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/20162871 01 eng 03 00

This paper attempts to explain the metrical practice and theorizing of the American poet William Carlos Williams. Observing that in many of his short poems, the total number of syllables is exactly, or nearly exactly, equal to the total number of positions in an abstract metrical representation containing a regular line and stanza structure, it is argued that Williams invented a remarkably successful new type of prosody, termed ‘syllabic-rhythmic’ verse, in which relative ‘speed’ or ‘tempo’ is computed by comparing the actual number of syllables in a line to the number of positions in the metrical schema. Williams’ later theory of the ‘variable foot’ and the ‘triadic line’ is further accounted for by incorporating the unit ‘foot’ in metrical schemata.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.09lak 06 10.1075/lfab.8.09lak 115 142 28 Article 9 01 04 Chapter 6. Linearization preferences given "Free Word Order"; subject preferences given ergativity Chapter 6. Linearization preferences given “Free Word Order”; subject preferences given ergativity 01 04 A look at Basque A look at Basque 1 A01 01 JB code 639162872 Itziar Laka Laka, Itziar Itziar Laka University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/639162872 2 A01 01 JB code 686162873 Kepa Erdozia Erdozia, Kepa Kepa Erdozia University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/686162873 01 eng 03 00

In this chapter, we discuss some recent results from studies of word order processing in Basque that show that despite the apparently unconstrained freedom the language displays in linearizing major phrasal constituents in the sentence, native speakers’ processing strategies reveal a clear advantage favoring the linearization that corresponds to minimal syntactic computation. This is reflected in the time speakers employ to read sentences, and also in the electrophysiological signals of neural processing measured by means of event related potentials (ERPs). Moreover, when confronted with chains that are syntactically ambiguous, speakers process them as if they were unambiguous, choosing the minimal syntactic computation (SOV) given their head final grammar. We also suggest that the claim that processing preferences universally favour subjects might need to be revisited under the light of ergativity. We suggest that accounts of processing mechanisms and strategies based on notions like “subject of” or “object of” as explanatory primitives are likely to fall short, and we argue that accounts that take into consideration the impact of morphological variability in processing yield a more accurate view of the interplay of variant and invariant processing mechanisms of language.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.10cho 06 10.1075/lfab.8.10cho 143 169 27 Article 10 01 04 Chapter 7. On the fronting of non-contrastive topics in Germanic Chapter 7. On the fronting of non-contrastive topics in Germanic 1 A01 01 JB code 358162874 Gema Chocano Chocano, Gema Gema Chocano 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/358162874 01 eng 03 00

The present chapter proposes a novel account of the existence of fronted non-contrastive topics in German and its absence in Dutch. The main claim is that the relevant difference between the two languages reduces to the type of scrambling they have: only Dutch scrambling is triggered by an uninterpretable phi(person)-feature on v* (M. Richards 2008). The proposal, fully compatible with Chomsky’s (2000 and subsequent work) model of cyclic Spell-Out, is extended to cover the more restrictive pattern of non-contrastive topicalization in Swedish, absent in Danish and Norwegian.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.11emo 06 10.1075/lfab.8.11emo 171 200 30 Article 11 01 04 Chapter 8. Blackjack! Chapter 8. Blackjack! 01 04 21 arguments that agreeing adjectives are derived nominals 21 arguments that agreeing adjectives are derived nominals 1 A01 01 JB code 831162875 Joseph E. Emonds Emonds, Joseph E. Joseph E. Emonds 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/831162875 01 eng 03 00

Adjectives in many Indo-European languages morphologically agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number and case (if the language’s nouns can differ in case). These agreeing items seem to undermine several otherwise broad generalizations about morphology, word order and phrasal stress. Mysteriously, agreement in Germanic languages is limited to pre-nominal attributes, while all adjectives agree in Romance and Slavic languages. This essay proposes to analyze adjectival agreement in terms of a “Derived Nominal Hypothesis,” which assigns agreeing adjectives a word-internal nominal structure whose head is the agreement suffix itself. Consequently, these “adjectives” are actually Nouns (by Lieber’s Right Hand Head Rule), and so qualify as unexceptional heads of NPs. This supports Abney’s controversial conjecture for pre-nominal attributive adjectives (that they are heads of NPs). The Derived Nominal Hypothesis additionally succeeds in making several traditional observations on the behavior of agreeing adjectives fully compatible with current explanatory grammatical theory. It also accounts for many previously puzzling morphological properties of agreement and its syntactic distribution in those languages on which the study primarily focuses, namely Dutch, German, Latin and Czech. To a lesser extent, the essay touches on English adjectival word order and on common properties of Spanish and Latin agreement.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.12hen 06 10.1075/lfab.8.12hen 201 216 16 Article 12 01 04 Chapter 9. Connectivity and definiteness in an English equative construction Chapter 9. Connectivity and definiteness in an English equative construction 1 A01 01 JB code 505162876 Randall Hendrick Hendrick, Randall Randall Hendrick 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/505162876 01 eng 03 00

This chapter describes the syntactic behavior of constructions like the prospects are for peace. The construction is argued to be a sub-case of equational (or ‘specificational’) copular constructions. It is shown that the construction exhibits a definiteness effect on the subject of the copula and an indefiniteness effect on the complement of for, not shared by similar equational sentences. An explanation is provided that derives the descriptive pattern from general properties holding at the interface of the syntactic and semantic components in conjunction with local deletion operations operating at the interface with the phonological component.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.13sae 06 10.1075/lfab.8.13sae 217 236 20 Article 13 01 04 Chapter 10. On certain distributional gaps of Spanish possessives Chapter 10. On certain distributional gaps of Spanish possessives 01 04 A "Phrasal Spell-Out" account A “Phrasal Spell-Out” account 1 A01 01 JB code 118162877 Luis Sáez Sáez, Luis Luis Sáez 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/118162877 01 eng 03 00

In this paper I focus on the odd distribution of Spanish prepositional possessives inside nominals, and offer an explanation of those facts on the basis of a “Phrasal Spell-Out” approach to lexical insertion (cf. Caha 2009; Fábregas 2007a, 2007b, 2010). The core of the proposal is that certain contrasts much emphasized in previous accounts, like the one between weak and strong pronouns, are irrelevant for the problem at issue. Instead, I derive the distributional pattern of Spanish possessives by relying on feature contrasts like Oblique/Genitive, [±participant] and [±number], which provide the right natural classes for those elements.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.14tor 06 10.1075/lfab.8.14tor 237 267 31 Article 14 01 04 Chapter 11. Variability in the case patterns of causative formation in Romance and its implications Chapter 11. Variability in the case patterns of causative formation in Romance and its implications 1 A01 01 JB code 714162878 Esther Torrego Torrego, Esther Esther Torrego 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/714162878 01 eng 03 00

Taking Folli and Harley’s (2007) analysis of Italian fare-causatives as a starting point, and focusing on Spanish, I examine variation in the distribution of the subject of the embedded infinitive in so-called faire-causatives, and I suggest that there is a robust correlation between the size of the embedded complement and the licensing of particular arguments. I reach this conclusion by investigating syntactic complexity in the domain of hacer-causatives, showing that richer structures obtain when Case factors associated with dative-case-marked arguments are considered. I further show that the specific conditions imposed by these arguments are language particular and arise in the language independently of analytical causatives.

01 01 JB code lfab.8.15ind 06 10.1075/lfab.8.15ind 269 272 4 Miscellaneous 15 01 04 Index Index 01 eng
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