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Date:  Wed, 07 May 2003 16:22:12 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Asymmetry in Grammar: Di Sciullo (ed)

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Date:  Wed, 07 May 2003 16:22:12 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Asymmetry in Grammar: Di Sciullo (ed)

Title: Asymmetry in Grammar
Subtitle: Volume 1: Syntax and semantics
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA_57

Editor: Anna Maria  Di Sciullo, University of Quebec at Montreal

Hardback: ISBN: 9027227780, Pages: vi, 405 pp., Price: EUR 120.00
Hardback: ISBN: 158811306X, Pages: vi, 405 pp., Price: USD 120.00

Abstract:

Asymmetry in Grammar: Syntax and Semantics brings to fore the
centrality of asymmetry in DP, VP and CP. A finer grained articulation
of the DP is proposed, and further functional projections for
restrictive relatives, as well as a refined analyses of case
identification and presumptive pronouns. The papers on VP discuss
further asymmetries among arguments, and between arguments and
adjuncts. Double-object constructions, specificational copula
sentences, secondary predicates, and the scope properties of adjuncts
are discussed in this perspective. The papers on CP propose a further
articulation of the phrasal projection, justifications for Remnant IP
movement, and an analysis of variation in clause structure
asymmetries. The papers in semantics support the hypothesis that
interpretation is a function of configurational asymmetry. The
type/token information difference is further argued to correspond to
the partition between the upper and lower level of the phrase. It is
also proposed that Point of View Roles are not primitives of the
pragmatic component, but are head-dependent categories.
Configurationality is further argued to be required to distinguish
contrastive from non-contrastive Topic. Compositionality is proposed
to explain cross-linguistic variations in the selectional behavior of
typologically different languages.

The papers in syntax include contributions from Antonia
Androutsopoulou and Manuel Español-Echevarría, Dana Isac, Edit Jakab,
Cedric Boeckx, Julie Anne Legate, Maria Cristina Cuervo, Jacqueline
Guéron, Niina Zhang, Thomas Ernst, Manuela Ambar, Jean-Yves Pollock,
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Ilena Paul and Stanca Somesfalean.  The papers
on semantics include contributions of Greg Carlson,Peggy Speas and
Carol Tenny, Chungmin Lee, and James Pustejovsky.

Table of contents

Asymmetry in grammar: Syntax and semantics
     Anna Maria Di Sciullo  1-10
French definite determiners in indefinite contexts
and asymmetric agreement
     Antonia Androutsopoulou and Manuel Espanol-Echevarria  11-26
Restrictive relative clauses vs. restrictive Adjectives: An asymmetry
within the class of modifiers
     Dana Isac  27-49
Asymmetry in case: Finnish and Old Russian nominative objects
     Edit N. Jakab  51-84
Resumption and asymmetric derivation
     Cedric Boeckx  85-98
Recontructing nonconfigurationality
     Julie Anne Legate  99-116
Structural asymmetries but same word order: The dative alternation in
Spanish
     Maria Cristina Cuervo  117-144
On the asymmetry of the specificational copula sentence
     Jacqueline Guéron  145-163
The asymmetry between depictives and resultatives in Chinese
     Niina Zhang  165-185
Adjuncts and word order asymmetries
     Thomas Ernst  187-207
Wh-asymmetries
     Manuela Ambar  209-249
Three arguments for remnant IP movement in Romance
     Jean-Yves Pollock  251-277
The clause structure of extraction asymmetries
     Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Ileana Paul and Stanca Somesfalean 279-299
Interpretive asymmetries in major phrases
     Greg Carlson  301-313
Configurational properties of point of view roles
     Peggy Speas and Carol L. Tenny  315-344
Contrastive Topic and proposition structure
     Chungmin Lee  345-371
Categories, types, and qualia selection
     James Pustejovsky  373-393
Index  395-402

Lingfield(s):   Generative Linguistics (Syntax)
		Semantics
		Syntax

Subject Language(s):    French (Language Code: FRN)
			Finnish (Language Code: FIN)
			Old Russian (Language Code: XORU)
			Spanish (Language Code: SPN)
			Chinese (Language Code: CHN)

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

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