17.3049, Books: Socioling/Syntax: Progovac, Paesani, Casielles, Barton (Eds)

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Date: 17-Oct-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: The Syntax of Nonsententials: Progovac, Paesani, Casielles,
Barton (Eds) 

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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:58:13
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: The Syntax of Nonsententials: Progovac, Paesani, Casielles, Barton (Eds) 

Title: The Syntax of Nonsententials 
Subtitle: Multidisciplinary perspectives 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 93  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA%2093 

Editor: Ljiljana Progovac, Wayne State University
Editor: Kate Paesani, Wayne State University
Editor: Eugenia Casielles, Wayne State University
Editor: Ellen Barton, Wayne State University

Hardback: ISBN: 9027233578 Pages: 372 Price: U.S. $ 150.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027233578 Pages: 372 Price: Europe EURO 125.00

Abstract:

This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed
as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing
together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of
language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the
volume makes a multidisciplinary case for the existence of nonsententials,
which are analyzed in various chapters as root phrases and small clauses
(Me; Me First!; Him worry?!; Class in session), and whose distinguishing
property is the absence of Tense, and, with it, any syntactic phenomena
that rely on Tense, including structural Nominative Case. Arguably, the
lack of Tense specification is also responsible for the dearth of
indicative interpretations among nonsententials, as well as for their heavy
reliance on pragmatic context. So pervasive is nonsentential speech across
all groups, including normal adult speech, that a case can be made that
continuity of grammar lies in nonsentential, rather than sentential speech. 

Table of contents

Preface  ix  
Introduction 
Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles and Ellen Barton 1-9  
1. Toward a nonsentential analysis in generative grammar 
Ellen Barton 11-31  
2. The syntax of nonsententials: Small clauses and phrases at the root 
Ljiljana Progovac 33-71  
3. "Small structures": A sententialist perspective 
Jason Merchant 73-91  
4. Neither fragments nor ellipsis 
Robert J. Stainton 93-116  
5. Big questions, small answers 
Eugenia Casielles 117-145  
6. Extending the nonsentential analysis: The case of special registers 
Kate Paesani 147-182  
7. The narrowing acquisition path: From expressive small clauses to
declaratives 
Christopher Potts and Thomas Roeper 183-201  
8. Nonsententials in second language acquisition 
Nicola Work 203-227  
9. How language adapts to the brain: An analysis of agrammatic aphasia 
Herman Kolk 229-258  
10. Nonsententials and agrammatism 
Patricia Siple 259-281  
11. Reduced syntax in (prototypical) pidgins 
Donald Winford 283-307  
12. Copula variation in Guyanese Creole and AAVE: Implications for
nonsentential grammar 
Walter F. Edwards 309-322  
Epilogue: Wherefrom and whereto? 
Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles and Ellen Barton 323-353  
Index  355-372  

"Altogether this is a fascinating volume, especially given the breathtaking
range of data and subfields that it brings together in order to explore the
syntactic structures and cognitive processes that may underlie the
production and comprehension of 'fragments'. There is so much to learn from
the individual chapters and from the volume as a whole. A momentous and
provocative piece of work."
Michel DeGraff, MIT 

"According to Richard Montague, the task of syntax is to give a recursive
definition of the set of well-formed expressions of every category of a
given language; for compositional semantics that is a very natural
perspective, since it is not only sentences that have meanings. But few
linguists made much of this aspect of Montague's approach. I was happy when
I first encountered Ellen Barton's work on non-sentential constituents
around 1989. I had long believed that there are non-trivial speech acts
involving non-elliptical non-sentential constituents, but the topic never
got to the top of my agenda, so I am immensely grateful that such an
excellent team of linguists has put together such a strong collection of
papers invoking such a breadth of perspectives. I hope this book unleashes
a flood of new work on this important topic."
Barbara H. Partee, University of Massachusetts-Amherst 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Generative Linguistics
                     Pidgins & Creoles
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Guyanese Creole English (gyn)

Written In: English  (eng)

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