The syntax of specifiers and heads : collected essays of Hilda J. Koopman.

The essays here cover a wide range of topics: the interpretation and distribution of pronouns; ECP effects; specifiers and phrase structure; heads; the role and functioning of head movement; and the architecture of grammar.

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Main Author: Koopman, Hilda Judith
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Series:Routledge leading linguists.
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Variables and the Bijection Principle with Dominique Sportiche; Pronouns, logical variables, and logophoricity in Abe with Dominique Sportiche; The internal and external distribution of pronominal DPs; ECP effects in main clauses; Control from COMP and comparative syntax; A note on long extraction in Vata and the ECP with Dominique Sportiche; On the absence of case chains in Bambara; Prepositions, postpositions, circumpositions, and particles: the structure of Dutch PPs; Licensing heads; On Verbs that fail to undergo V-second.
  • The Spec head configurationUnifying predicate cleft constructions; Index.