Repairs : the added value of being wrong / edited by Patrick Brandt and Eric Fuss.

Grammatical structures connect systems of thought and articulation, the conditions of which hardly seem to fit each other. Repairs are productive mechanisms that solve translation problems between modules or levels by adapting derivations or representations to requirements that have to be met uncond...

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Other Authors: Brandt, Patrick, Fuss, Eric
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2013.
Series:Interface explorations ; v. 27.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Semantic competition over morphological representations. A case study from Slavic; 3 Repairs for Reasoning; 4 Generic rescue: Argument alternations and the monotonicity condition; 5 Prepare and Repair: On pre-emptive strikes and post-hoc patches; 6 Repair-driven verb movement in English locative inversion; 7 Linearisation as repair; 8 Repairing resumptive structures, or: How faulty is the Lexicon?; 9 That-trace effects and resumption
  • How Improper Movement can be repaired; 10 Passives of reflexive verbs: The repair of a Principle A violation.