Elements of Grammar: Handbook of Generative Syntax by Liliane Haegeman

By Liliane Haegeman

The purpose of this guide is to supply a discussion board during which a few of the generative syntacticians whose paintings has had an impression on theoretical syntax during the last two decades are invited to provide their perspectives on a number of features of present syntactic thought.
the subsequent authors have contributed to the amount: Mark Baker, Michael Brody, Jane Grimshaw, James McCloskey, Jean-Yves Pollock, and Luigi Rizzi. each one contribution makes a speciality of one particular point of the grammar. As a normal subject matter, the papers are excited by the query of the composition of the clause, i.e. what sort of parts the clause is made of, and the way those elements are positioned jointly within the clause. The creation to the amount presents the backdrop for the papers and highlights many of the advancements that have happened in theoretical syntax within the final ten years.
Elements of Grammar is destined for an viewers of linguists operating within the generative framework.

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John does not know [[which xl [x picture of himself]] Bill saw [ [which x] [x picture of himself]] e. John does not know ([which x] B ill saw [x picture of himself]] In representation (2 1 e ) himself can be bound by the embedded subject Bill. For the second reading, the complete wh-phrase is pied piped by the extraction and adjoined: (22) a. John does not know [which picture of himself [t] ] Bill saw [which pictures of himself [t] ] Operator vari able structures are created in each o f the copies: (22) b.

John John John John John John has often mentioned you is always working was always invited has 'not mentioned you is not working was not invited However, pursuing this type of procedure Pollock ( 1 989) shows that we are led to the conclusion that more than one landing site is available in the clausal structure and that the simple structure in (43) is insufficient for an adequate representation of the clause. The crucial data are given in (46): (46) a. Souvent manger du chocolat c ' est mauvais pour la often eat of chocolate it is bad for the peau.

Eng. Fr. It. Du. Ge. J ahn has bought some books. Jean a achete des livres. Gianni ha comprato libri . Jan heeft boeken gekocht. Hans hat B u cher gekauft. In all of the above examples, the AGENT theta role of the verb (buy, acheter, comprare, kopen, kaufen) is an external theta role in the sense that it is real ized by the subject and the THEME role is an internal role, realized by means of the direct object. That the AGENT is the subject in each of the sentences above is shown, for instance, by the fact that it is associ ated with nomi native case (cf.

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