14.2814, Books: Syntax, Finnish: Manninen

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Subject: 14.2814, Books: Syntax, Finnish: Manninen

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Date:  Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:27:10 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Small Phrase Layers: Manninen

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Date:  Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:27:10 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Small Phrase Layers: Manninen

Title: Small Phrase Layers
Subtitle: A Study of Finnish Manner Adverbials
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 65

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_65

Author: Satu Helena Manninen, Lund University

Hardback: ISBN: 1588114430, Pages: xii, 275 pp., Price: USD 99.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027227888, Pages: xii, 275 pp., Price: EUR 99.00

Abstract:

This monograph examines the structure and properties of Finnish manner
adverbials. The central idea is that, instead of AdvPs, DPs, APs, PPs,
NumPs and InfinitivalPs, manner adverbials have the form of either kPs
or pPs, and they are licensed as unique specifiers of a manner-related
small vP. Secondly, because "obligatory" and "optional" manner
adverbials are merged as specifiers of one and the same small vP, the
computational system of language sees no difference between them. This
is why "obligatory" and "optional" manner adverbials often behave in
exactly the same way with regard to syntactic operations such as
movement. Thirdly, the author shows that, although all arguments and
VP-internal adverbials are merged as specifiers of a unique small vP,
this hierarchical structure need not always be reflected in an
unambiguous linear order: in many languages VP-internal manner, place
and time adverbials are allowed to permute freely because they have no
features which would need checking by the features of a higher
functional head, and because their original Spec,vP positions are
"invisible" to the Linear Correspondence Axiom. Although the
argumentation and analyses are mainly supported by Finnish data, the
author also shows how they can be applied to other languages. The book
also contains an extensive introduction to Finnish, to help readers
unfamiliar with the language to follow the discussion.

Table of contents

Abbreviations  ix
Acknowledgements  xi
Introduction  1-41
The minimalist framework and the structure of Finnish sentences  43-68
Adverbials and functional categories  69-101
The Structure of Finnish manner adverbials  103-155
A theory of layered VPs  157-201
The position of Finnish manner adverbials  203-250
Conclusions  251-253
References  255-269
Index  271-272

Lingfield(s):   Syntax

Subject Language(s):  Finnish (Language code: FIN)

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

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