34.1601, Books: The Grammar of Multiple Head-Movement: Branigan

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Date: 12-May-2023
From: Rachel Havard [rachel.havard at oup.com]
Subject: The Grammar of Multiple Head-Movement: Branigan


Title: The Grammar of Multiple Head-Movement
Subtitle: A Comparative Study
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author: Phil Branigan
Hardback: ISBN: 9780197677032 Pages: 376 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
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Abstract:

Head-movement has played a central role in morpho-syntactic theory,
but its nature has remained unclear. While it is widely accepted that
the main grammatical constraint controlling head-movement is the Head
Movement Constraint (HMC), this constraint is flouted in many of the
linguistic structures examined in this book. More specifically, the
strictures of the HMC turn out to be sometimes inactive for specific
grammars allowing multiple head-movement to take place in particular
syntactic contexts.

In 'The Grammar of Multiple Head-Movement', Phil Branigan shows that
multiple head-movement is far from rare, forming a part of the grammar
in Finnish, in English, in Perenakan Javanese, in northern Norwegian
and Swedish dialects, and generally in the Slavic and Algonquian
language families. Basing his analysis on a new model of the
grammatical parameters which control word formation in the human
brain, Branigan shows how careful attention to the contexts in which
multiple head-movement takes place allows new generalizations to be
identified. And these, in turn, allow a new model to be formulated of
how head-movement fits into the overall architecture of grammatical
computation. Through careful comparative study, Branigan not only
provides a better understanding of head-movement, but also provides
new opportunities to address larger questions concerning the
architecture of the grammatical system and the theory of linguistic
parameters.

A new account of how complex words are formed in languages as
different as Russian or Innu-aimun, as well as in English, this study
deepens our understanding of how languages vary and of the mental
computational system of human grammars.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Written In: English (eng)

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