By Kyle Johnson, Ian Roberts (auth.), Kyle Johnson, Ian Roberts (eds.)
Kyle Johnson college of Massachusetts at Amherst Ian Roberts collage of Stuttgart a huge bankruptcy within the heritage of syntactic conception opened because the 70's reached their shut. The revolution that Chomsky had delivered to linguistics needed to this aspect engendered theories which remained in the grip of the philologists' construction-based imaginative and prescient. Their picture of language as a list of autonomous buildings served because the backdrop opposed to which a lot of transformational grammar's distinct exploration developed. In a feeling, the hugely profitable pursuit of th phonology and morphology within the 19 century in comparison to the absence of comparable leads to syntax (beyond observations similar to Wackemagel's legislation, and so forth. ) attests to this: simply noting that, for instance, French relative clauses enable subject-postposing yet no longer preposition-stranding whereas English relations don't enable the previous yet do permit the latter doesn't take us some distance past an easy checklist of the proof. ahead of this element, th syntactic thought had now not stepped forward past the nineteen century scenario. yet because the 80's approached, this snapshot started to collapse to another one: grammar as a puzzle of interlocking "modules," each one made of syntactic rules which cross-cut the philologist's buildings. an increasing number of, "constructions" decomposed into the epiphenomenal interaction of encapsulated mini-theories: X idea, Binding concept, Bounding thought, Case thought, Theta idea, etc. Syntactic analyses turned reoriented towards the dual objectives of selecting the content material of those modules and deconstructing into them the descriptive result of early transformational grammar.
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B. mhllamt-[oll l-~alemeet 1 la-[kall walad] 1 gave. ' c. IO In (55a-c), the clitic attached to the verb may be taken to be the doubling clitic. The CFC containing this doubling clitic is the whole clause. This CFC and the doubled element are in a predication relation: the doubled element c-commands the whole complex predicate, and, as such, also c-commands the adnominal clitic contained within the complex predicate. II The fact that the doubled QP can bind the pronoun in (55a-c) but not in (53a-c) indicates that a doubled element has to be generated with the minimal CFC containing the doubling clitic.
Hornstein. A. Li, J. Ouhalla, M. Mohammad, D. Sportiche, P. -R. Vergnaud, A. -L. Zubizarreta. I wish to thank Z. El-Imad, T. Kadri, J. Kikano-Aoun, T. Attiyeh who were patient and gracious informants. Special thanks to Lina Choueiri for her help and input. ' 1ala and flkeeye to-her kariim flakee-Io K. b. kariim K. story In LA, clitics may attach to prepositions (see section 3). The fact that the pronominal elements cannot cliticize to the doubling marker la suggests that this marker is not to be analyzed as a preposition.