27.140, Books: Nominal Syntax at the Interfaces: A Comparative Analysis of Languages With Articles: Giusti

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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 14:05:57
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Nominal Syntax at the Interfaces: A Comparative Analysis of Languages With Articles: Giusti

Title: Nominal Syntax at the Interfaces: A Comparative Analysis of
Languages With Articles 
Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/

Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/nominal-syntax-at-the-interfaces 

Author: Giuliana Giusti

Hardback: ISBN:  9781443880244 Pages: 245 Price: U.K. £ 47.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781443880244 Pages: 245 Price: U.S. $ 81.95

Abstract:

This volume offers a new perspective on the syntax of nominal expressions in
various European languages, arguing that articles do not directly and
biunivocally realise semantic definiteness. The first two chapters provide an
accessible introduction to recent developments in generative syntax, namely
the cartographic and minimalist approaches, by focusing on the “imperfect”
parallels between clauses and nominal expressions. The third chapter shows
that feature sharing is not the result of a unique syntactic process, but,
rather, the consequence of Merge, which creates syntactic structure
instantiating two types of relation: Selection and Modification. It argues for
three different ways of transferring features: Agreement allows for an
argument (an independent phase, selected by a head) to re-enter the
computation as part of the predicate of the new phase. It targets Person
features and is not involved in the feature sharing triggered by modification.
Concord copies the features of N (notably gender, number and case, where this
is present). It is the result of Modification and can coexist with Agreement.
Finally, Projection is triggered by multiple internal mergers of the head,
bundled with all its interpretable and uninterpretable features, which may be
realized in different segments. The fourth chapter focuses on the nature of
determiners such as articles, demonstratives, quantifiers, possessive
adjectives and pronouns, personal pronouns and proper names, and shows that
only articles have the properties to be attributed to “functional heads”
because they are a segment of a scattered nominal head. The rest of the volume
is devoted to the analysis of syntactic phenomena, such as double
definiteness, expletive articles, and weak and strong adjectival inflection,
by means of the proposal that (scattered) nominal or adjectival heads concord
with their modifiers. This approach reinterprets head movement in a fashion
that makes it compatible with minimalist requirements, provides an explanation
for the apparent optionality of head movement, eliminates the typology of head
movements by adjunction or substitution, and gives an original answer to the
doubts raised about the legitimacy of the very notion of “functional
category”.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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