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Symmetry, Shared Labels and Movement in Syntax / Andreas Blümel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studia grammatica ; 81Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (IX, 171 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110520125
  • 9783110520187
  • 9783110522518
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415 23
LOC classification:
  • P291
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Preface -- 2. Introduction -- 3. Minimalist Reflections -- 4. Propagating Symmetry -- 5. Shared Labels and Criterial Freezing -- 6. In Defense of Forked chains -- 7. Summary and Outlook -- Bibliography -- Index
Dissertation note: Dissertation University of Frankfurt 2014. Summary: What is the trigger for displacement phenomena in natural language syntax? And how can constraints on syntactic movement be derived from interface conditions and so-called Third Factor principles? Within the Minimalist Program a standard answer to the first question is that it is driven by morphosyntactic features. This monograph challenges that view and suggests that the role of features in driving syntactic computation has been overestimated. Instead it proposes that "labeling" -- the detection of a prominent element in sets formed by Merge -- plays a role in driving transformations, and labeling itself is understood to derive from an interplay of efficient computation and the need for a label at the Conceptual-Intentional systems. It explores this idea in four empirical domains: Long-distance dependencies, Criterial Freezing-phenomena, nested dependencies and ATB-movement. The languages considered include English, German and Hebrew.

Dissertation University of Frankfurt 2014.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Preface -- 2. Introduction -- 3. Minimalist Reflections -- 4. Propagating Symmetry -- 5. Shared Labels and Criterial Freezing -- 6. In Defense of Forked chains -- 7. Summary and Outlook -- Bibliography -- Index

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What is the trigger for displacement phenomena in natural language syntax? And how can constraints on syntactic movement be derived from interface conditions and so-called Third Factor principles? Within the Minimalist Program a standard answer to the first question is that it is driven by morphosyntactic features. This monograph challenges that view and suggests that the role of features in driving syntactic computation has been overestimated. Instead it proposes that "labeling" -- the detection of a prominent element in sets formed by Merge -- plays a role in driving transformations, and labeling itself is understood to derive from an interplay of efficient computation and the need for a label at the Conceptual-Intentional systems. It explores this idea in four empirical domains: Long-distance dependencies, Criterial Freezing-phenomena, nested dependencies and ATB-movement. The languages considered include English, German and Hebrew.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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