Explorations of Phase Theory: Interpretation at the Interfaces

✍ Scribed by Grohmann, Kleanthes K., Kleanthes K. Grohmann

• Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Series: Interface Explorations
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume investigates interface interpretation within Phase Theory, the current stage of syntactic theorizing within the ´;Minimalist Program´, the generative research enterprise instigated by Noam Chomsky over 15 years ago. The collection brings together scholars who address architectural, conceptual, and interpretive issues in the grammar. In their investigations of the interpretive interfaces, Logical Form and Phonetic Form, the chapters provide novel analyses for both new and well-known facts, address theoretical issues for Phase Theory, and contribute insights from phonology and semantics.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Exploring interfaces......Page 8
Intermodular argumentation and the word-spell-out-mystery......Page 30
On bare prosodic structure and the spell-out of features......Page 74
Spell out before you merge......Page 102
On the derivation of the relation between givenness and deaccentuation: A best-case model......Page 122
Phase theory, linearization and zig-zag movement......Page 140
Surviving reconstruction......Page 168
On the interface(s) between syntax and meaning......Page 188
Dynamic economy of derivation......Page 218
The conceptual necessity of phases: Some remarks on the minimalist enterprise......Page 260
Contributors
......Page 284
Index
......Page 286