31.3543, Books: The Syntax of Relative Clauses: Cinque

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Subject: 31.3543, Books: The Syntax of Relative Clauses: Cinque

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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 21:50:16
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Syntax of Relative Clauses: Cinque

 


Title: The Syntax of Relative Clauses 
Subtitle: A Unified Analysis 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/syntax-relative-clauses-unified-analysis?format=HB 


Author: Guglielmo Cinque

Electronic: ISBN:  9781108847698 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 28.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108479707 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 99.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108790581 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 34.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108790581 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 26.99


Abstract:

Relative clauses play a hugely important role in analysing the structure of
sentences. This book provides the first evidence that a unified analysis of
the different types of relative clauses is possible - a step forward in our
understanding. Using careful analyses of a wide range of languages, Cinque
argues that the relative clause types can all be derived from a single,
double-headed, structure. He also presents evidence that restrictive,
maximalizing, ('integrated') non-restrictive, kind-defining, infinitival and
participial RCs merge at different heights of the nominal extended projection.
This book provides an elegant generalization about the structure of all
relatives. Theoretically profound and empirically rich, it promises to
radically alter the way we think about this subject for years to come.

Introduction
1. Preliminaries
2. Deriving the cross-linguistically attested types of
restrictive/maximalizing relative clauses from a double-headed structure
3. Deriving the other types of relative clauses from a double-headed structure
4. 'Strategies' for the realization of the internal head
5. Some residual questions
Conclusion
Appendix. Possible evidence for the existence of non-'raising' derivations.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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