A unified theory of verbal and nominal projections

A unified theory of verbal and nominal projections / Yoshiki Ogawa.

Syntactically speaking, it has long been known that noun phrases are parallel to clauses in many respects. While most syntactic theories incorporate this principle, nouns have generally been regarded as inferior to verbs in terms of their licensing abilities, and nominal projections have been regard...

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Main Author: Ogawa, Yoshiki
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Series:Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Generative grammar.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general
Generative Syntax
Kontrastive Linguistik
Generatieve grammatica.
Grammaticale functie.
Zinnen.
Woordgroepen.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter One: Introduction and Theoretical Assumptions
  • 1.1 The Issues
  • 1.2 The Minimalist Framework
  • 1.2.1 The Computational Component
  • 1.2.2 Phrase Structure Theory
  • 1.2.3 k -theory
  • 1.2.4 Movement and Checking Theory
  • 1.2.5 Word Order and the LCA
  • 1.3 Outline of the Book
  • 1.4 The Limits of Unification
  • Chapter Two: Verb Raising and Null Complementizers
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Null Complementizers as Null Affixes
  • 2.2.1 A Condition on Null Affixes
  • 2.2.2 Null Complementizers as Null Affixes
  • 2.2.3 Some Notes on Overt Complementizers.
  • 2.3 Null Complementizers in Finite Clausal Complements
  • 2.3.1 Overt Verb Raising and Null Complementizers
  • 2.3.2 Tell-class Verbs and Suggest-class Verbs
  • 2.4 Further Cross-linguistic Data
  • 2.4.1 Chinese
  • 2.4.2 Romance Languages
  • 2.4.3 Germanic Languages
  • 2.4.4 Japanese
  • 2.4.5 Celtic Languages
  • 2.4.6 Arabic Languages
  • 2.4.7 Modern Greek: A Balkan Language
  • 2.4.8 Hungarian: A Finno-Ugric Language
  • 2.4.9 Edo: A Nigerian Language
  • 2.4.10 A Summary
  • 2.5 Null Cs in the Complement of Derived Nominals: A Sketch
  • 2.6 Null Cs in ECM and Control Complements.
  • 2.7 Wh-Movement and Null Cs
  • 2.7.1 Null Cs in Interrogative Clauses
  • 2.7.2 Null Cs in the Complement of Tough Adjectives
  • 2.7.3 Wh-Movement through [Spec, C] and Null Cs
  • 2.7.4 Interrogative Clauses in Complement Positions
  • 2.7.5 Deriving Cheng's (1991) Generalization
  • 2.7.6 Null Cs in the Root Clauses
  • 2.7.7 Null Cs in Relative Clauses
  • 2.7.8 A Summary
  • 2.8 Null Complementizers in Raising Complements
  • 2.8.1 The CP-Status of Raising Complements
  • 2.8.2 NP-movement through [Spec, C]
  • 2.8.3 The Complement of Allege-class Verbs
  • 2.9 Some Loose Ends.
  • 2.9.1 Placement of Modifiers
  • 2.9.2 No Null Cs in Factive Complements
  • 2.9.3 Null Cs in Subjunctive Complements
  • 2.9.4 Some Comments on the ""IP Hypothesis"" of That-less Clauses
  • 2.10 Conclusion
  • Chapter Three: Derived Nominals and Their Satellites
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Null Cs in the Complement of Nominals
  • 3.2.1 Null Cs in the Complement of Derived Nominals
  • 3.2.2 CPs in Apposition to Nonderived Nominals and Their LF Movement
  • 3.3 N Is a Structural Case Marker
  • 3.4 Syntactic Nominalization: Evidence from Various Causative Constructions.
  • 3.4.1 Backward Binding in Clauses and Lack of Causative Nominals
  • 3.4.2 The Double Object Construction and Lack of Ditransitive Nominals
  • 3.4.3 Causative/Inchoative Alternation
  • 3.4.4 Speech Act Verbs
  • 3.4.5 A Summary
  • 3.5 Nz Is the Nominal Counterpart of the Light Verb
  • 3.5.1 Be and Have Cannot Be Nominalized
  • 3.5.2 Neither the Light Verb nor the Nominalizer Can Select PP
  • 3.5.3 Morphological Realizations of Verbalizers and Nominalizers
  • 3.6 Verbs, Derived Nominals, and Nonderived Nominals
  • 3.6.1 Diagnostics for Distinguishing Three Types of Derived Nominals.

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