Parameters and Universals (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)

✍ Scribed by Richard S. Kayne

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 384
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne. The papers cover issues of comparative syntax as they are applied to French, Italian, and other Romance languages and dialects, together forming a strongly cohesive set that will be valuable to both scholars and students.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Contents......Page 12
I. Romance......Page 16
1. Microparametric Syntax: Some Introductory Remarks......Page 18
2. Past Participle Agreement in French and Italian......Page 25
3. Facets of Romance Past Participle Agreement......Page 40
4. Null Subjects and Clitic Climbing......Page 55
5. Romance Clitics, Verb Movement, and PRO......Page 75
6. Italian Negative Infinitival Imperatives and Clitic Climbing......Page 113
7. Toward a Modular Theory of Auxiliary Selection......Page 122
8. Person Morphemes and Reflexives in Italian, French, and Related Languages......Page 146
9. A Not on Clitic Doubling in French......Page 178
II. English......Page 200
10. Notes on English Agreement......Page 202
11. Agreement and Verb Morphology in Three Varieties of English......Page 221
12. The English Complementizer of......Page 227
III. Universals......Page 236
13. Overt versus Covert Movement......Page 238
14. Prepositional Complementizers as Attractors......Page 297
15. A Note on Prepositions, Complementizers, and Word Order Universals......Page 329
References......Page 342
Index......Page 372

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