18.3452, Books: Syntax/Linguistic Theories: Putnam

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Subject: Scrambling and the Survive Principle: Putnam

 

	
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Title: Scrambling and the Survive Principle 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 115  

Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA%20115 


Author: Michael T. Putnam

Hardback: ISBN:  9789027233790 Pages: 231 Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027233790 Pages: 231 Price: U.S. $ 142.00


Abstract:

Languages with free word orders pose daunting challenges to linguistic
theory because they raise questions about the nature of grammatical
strings. Ross, who coined the term <i>Scrambling</i> to refer to the
relatively 'free' word orders found in Germanic languages (among others)
notes that "... the problems involved in specifying exactly the subset of the
strings which will be generated ... are far too complicated for me to even
mention here, let alone come to grips with" (1967:52). This book offers a
radical re-analysis of middle field <i>Scrambling</i>. It argues that
<i>Scrambling</i> is a concatenation effect, as described in Stroik's
(1999, 2000, 2007) <i>Survive</i> analysis of minimalist syntax, driven by
an interpretable referentiality feature [Ref] to the middle field, where
syntactically encoded features for temporality and other world indices are
checked. The purpose of this book is to investigate the syntactic
properties of middle field <i>Scrambling</i> in synchronic West Germanic
languages, and to explore, to what possible extent we can classify
<i>Scrambling</i> as a 'syntactic phenomenon' within
<i>Survive</i>-minimalist desiderata. 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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