The Verbal Complex in Romance: A Case Study in Grammatical Interfaces

✍ Scribed by Paola Monachesi

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the interface between syntax and the other components of the grammar, in particular phonology, morphology, and argument structure. The author proceeds through a consideration of case studies, such as clitics and complex predicates (auxiliary and modal verbs) in Romance, grounding theoretical analysis in constant exemplification. She shows that a careful analysis of their properties can lead to a better understanding of the interaction of the various components of the grammar. The syntactic properties of clitics are considered in relation to their phonological and morphological characteristic. The properties of auxiliary verbs are analysed from the perspective of the interface between argument structure and syntactic structure. Modal verbs are examined at the interface between syntax and phonology. The analyses of clitics and auxiliaries throw interesting new light on the link between Romanian and Balkan/Slavic. This is a valuable contribution to the study of grammatical interfaces and to Romance verbal typology and comparative linguistics.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
General Preface......Page 10
Dedication......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 17
1 Introduction......Page 20
1.1 Outline......Page 26
2.1 Basic assumptions......Page 28
2.2 The principles......Page 31
2.3 Phrases and constituent structure......Page 34
2.4 Lexical generalizations......Page 36
2.5 The organization of the grammar and the implications for the interfaces: A comparison with other theories......Page 39
3.1 Introduction......Page 44
3.2.1 The word–syntax approach......Page 45
3.2.2 Realizational approaches......Page 50
3.3 Romance clitics as a test case for grammatical interfaces......Page 53
3.3.1 General properties of Romance clitics......Page 55
3.3.2 The affixal status of Romance clitics......Page 61
3.3.3 Phonology......Page 84
3.3.4 Conclusions......Page 94
3.4 A lexical analysis of Romance clitics......Page 95
3.4.1 Clitic doubling......Page 100
3.4.2 Subject clitics......Page 104
3.5.1 Syntactic and morphological approaches to clitic distribution......Page 106
3.5.2 The clitic cluster......Page 108
3.5.3 The morphophonological features......Page 115
3.5.4 The spelling out of Romance pronominal clitics......Page 119
3.5.5 An alternative realizational approach......Page 126
3.6 Germanic clitics......Page 134
3.7 Slavic clitics......Page 136
3.8 A brief review......Page 140
3.9 Comparing frameworks: Distributed Morphology......Page 142
3.10 Comparing frameworks: Optimality Theory......Page 145
3.11 Conclusions......Page 148
4.1 Introduction......Page 150
4.2 Basic properties of Romanian tense auxiliaries......Page 152
4.3 The syntactic structure of tense auxiliaries......Page 158
4.3.1 The syntactic structure of French auxiliary verbs......Page 159
4.3.2 The syntactic structure of Italian auxiliary verbs......Page 163
4.3.3 The syntactic structure of Romanian tense auxiliaries......Page 165
4.4 Mesoclisis in European Portuguese......Page 171
4.5 Romanian tense auxiliaries and the distribution of pronominal clitics......Page 177
4.5.1 The position of pronominal clitics in the Romanian and Balkan clitic cluster......Page 178
4.5.2 The ordering of Romanian clitics......Page 180
4.5.3 The analysis of Romanian clitic climbing......Page 183
4.6 Romanian tense auxiliaries and monosyllabic intensifiers......Page 194
4.7 Romanian tense auxiliaries and negation......Page 200
4.8 Romanian future auxiliaries......Page 204
4.9 The perfect auxiliary fi......Page 211
4.10.1 Raising verbs......Page 216
4.10.2 The modal verb a putea......Page 224
4.11 A brief review......Page 229
4.12 Comparison with other accounts......Page 230
4.13 The role of argument structure: A comparison......Page 233
4.14 What is the role of syntactic structure?......Page 236
4.15 Conclusions......Page 238
5.1 Introduction......Page 240
5.2 The data......Page 241
5.3 The syntactic structure of Italian restructuring verbs......Page 242
5.4 Restructuring verbs and clitic climbing......Page 247
5.5 The Prosodic Representation of Restructuring Verbs......Page 253
5.5.1 Evidence against Prosodic Word status......Page 254
5.5.2 Evidence in favour of Phonological Phrase status......Page 256
5.6.1 Ghini (1993)......Page 259
5.6.2 Selkirk (1986, 1995) and Truckenbrodt (1999)......Page 265
5.6.3 Nespor and Vogel (1986)......Page 269
5.7 A templatic view on restructuring verbs: Cinque (2000)......Page 278
5.8 Conclusions......Page 284
References......Page 286
C......Page 300
D......Page 301
L......Page 302
S......Page 303
W......Page 304