Edwin Williams

Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology presents a theory of the architecture of the human linguistic system. The theory is a descendant of the author's "Representation Theory" and so inherits its other benefits as well, including explanations for properties of reconstruction, remnant movement, improper movement, and scrambling/scope interactions, and the different embedding regimes for clauses and DPs. Syntactic islands are added to this list as special cases of improper movement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9780415887236
• ISBN-10: 0415887232
• Artikelnr.: 30880711

Autorenporträt

Edwin Williams received his PhD from MIT in 1974, and has worked at Princeton University for the last 20 years. He co-authered "Introduction to Syntactic Theory" with H. van Riemsdijk in 1986, coauthored "On the Definition of Word" with A-M. di Sciullo in 1986, wrote "Thematic Structure in Syntax in 1994, and "Representation Theory" in 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I. Morphology and Derivation 1. "Dumping Lexicalism" 2.
Derivational Prefixes are Projective, not Realizational 3. Merge and
Mirrors Part II. Functional Structure and Derivation 4. Subjects of
Different Heights 5. There Is No Alternative to Cartography 6. Scope and
Verb Meanings 7. Islands Regained