Date: 20-Feb-2008 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: The Emergence of Order in Syntax: Fortuny E-mail this message to a friend
Title: The Emergence of Order in Syntax
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 119
Published: 2008
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Author: Jordi Fortuny
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255020 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255020 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 142.00
Abstract:
The syntactic component of the faculty of language is argued to be a rewiring of a few independently motivated components: features, the conjunction of a successive operation of union-formation (Merge) and of derivational records (nests), and principles of analysis. Since nests linearize terminals (Kuratowski 1921), Kaynes (1994) LCA becomes dispensable. The study of how features are ordered in discontinuous, analytic and syncretic patterns, governed by the Full Interpretation Condition and the Maximize Matching Effects Principle, provides a simple account for several syntactic phenomena, like the C-Infl connection, certain cartographic observations due to Cinque (1999), the A-status of preverbal subjects in Null Subject Languages (Sol 1992), the alleviation of wh-island effects in English when the embedded wh-phrase is a subject (Chomsky 1986) and the dynamic V2 patterns in double agreement dialects observed by Zwart (1993). The possibility that Comp-trace effects derive from the contraction of the C-Infl discontinuity is explored and subject islands and wh-islands are derived from the Relativized Opacity Principle, an alternative to Chomskys PIC.
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