<p>The volume contains articles that focus on the interface between linguistic and conceptual knowledge. The issues addressed in the volume include the preconditions of every level of the language system that are required for the transformation of linguistic information into conceptual representatio
Projections and Interface Conditions: Essays on Modularity
β Scribed by Anna-Maria Di Sciullo
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 270
- Edition
- First
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This collection of previously unpublished papers explores the implications of Chomsky's "Minimalist" framework for the modularity of grammar, which simplifies the "modular" approach he took in his Government and Binding theory of grammar. According to this theory autonomous grammatical components (phonological, syntactic, morphological, and semantic) coexist and interact like building blocks, using a given set of principles at given levels of representation. Chomsky's assertions have sparked a great deal of theoretical debate, especially with regard to the nature and interaction of each of the building blocks. The contributors to this volume join the debate in a series of case studies that compare modularity in English, French, and Italian, among other languages. In the process they address such issues as the autonomy and applications of modules and their distribution in theory, as well as the role of functional projects in their derivations. Projections and Interface Conditions will interest researchers in any of the above mentioned languages, as well as the large number of linguists working in the Chomskyan tradition.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents......Page 12
ONE: On Word-structure and Conditions......Page 16
TWO: On Some Syntactic Properties of Word-structure and Modular Grammars......Page 41
THREE: Prefixed-verbs and Adjunct Identification......Page 65
FOUR: Prepositions and Variation......Page 87
FIVE: On the Modularity of Case Theory: A Case against the Visibility Hypothesis......Page 122
SIX: Argument Projection, Thematic Configurationality, and Case Theory......Page 143
SEVEN: Modularity in a Configurational Theta Theory......Page 168
EIGHT: On Passive as Partitive Quantification......Page 214
NINE: On the Syntax and Semantics of Local Anaphors in French and English......Page 248
A......Page 264
C......Page 265
H......Page 266
M......Page 267
P......Page 268
S......Page 269
Z......Page 270
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