24.596, Books: A Syntax of Substance: Adger

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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:30:35
From: David Weininger [dgw at mit.edu]
Subject: A Syntax of Substance: Adger

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Title: A Syntax of Substance 
Series Title: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Book URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262518307 

Author: David Adger

Hardback: ISBN:  9780262018616 Pages: 224 Price: U.S. $ 60.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780262518307 Pages: 224 Price: U.S. $ 30.00

Abstract:

In A Syntax of Substance, David Adger proposes a new approach to phrase
structure that eschews functional heads and labels structures exocentrically.
His proposal simultaneously simplifies the syntactic system and restricts the
range of possible structures, ruling out the ubiquitous (remnant) roll-up
derivations and forcing a separation of arguments from their apparent heads.
This new system has a number of empirical consequences, which Adger explores
in the domain of relational nominals across different language families,
including Germanic, Romance, Celtic, Polynesian, and Semitic. He shows that
the relationality of such nouns as hand, edge, or mother—which seem to have as
part of their meaning a relation between substances—is actually part of the
syntactic representation in which they are used rather than an inherent part
of their meaning. This empirical outcome follows directly from the new
syntactic system, as does a novel analysis of PP complements to nouns and
possessors. Given this, he argues that nouns can, in general, be thought of as
simply specifications of substance, differentiating them from true predicates.

A Syntax of Substance offers an innovative contribution to debates in
theoretical syntax about the nature of syntactic representations and how they
connect to semantic interpretation and linear order.

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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