Explorations of Phase Theory: Features and Arguments

✍ Scribed by Grohmann, Kleanthes K.

• Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Series: Interface Explorations
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Phase Theory is the latest model of modern syntactic theorizing in the generative tradition, the larger research enterprise known as the 'Minimalist Program'. This volume collects current research of scholars who investigate the role of formal features in the grammar, address licensing of grammatical properties in the theoretical model, and critically inspect particular aspects of the expression of arguments within Phase Theory. The chapters provide a wealth of empirical data from typologically different languages and novel syntactic analyses drawing from all aspects of the grammar (syntax, semantics, morphology, and phonology).

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Exploring features and arguments......Page 8
Remarks on features......Page 28
Feature valuation by sideward movement......Page 60
On Incrementality, overt agreement, theta-roles and Spec,Head relations in the phase-based framework......Page 94
Structural case, locality and cyclicity......Page 114
PRO, pro and NP-trace (raising) are interpretations......Page 138
Movement of arguments and negative feature......Page 188
Inner aspect and phases......Page 214
How to become passive......Page 238
Ergativity, accusativity, and the order of Merge and Agree......Page 276
Contributors
......Page 316
Index
......Page 318