Eintrag

Titel

Discovering Syntax: Clause Structures of English, German and Romance

Personen

Joseph E. Emonds

Jahr

2008

Typ

Monographie

Verlag

de Gruyter

Ort

Berlin

Reihe

Studies in generative grammar

Band

93

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Englisch
Romanisch

Schlagwörter

Satzstruktur
Syntax

Abstract

The essays in this volume, dating from 1991 onwards, focus on highly characteristic constructions of English, Romance languages, and German. Among clause-internal structures, the most puzzling are English double objects, particle constructions, and non-finite complementation (infinitives, participles and gerunds). Separate chapters in Part I offer relatively complete analyses of each. These analyses are integrated into the framework of Emonds (2000), wherein a simplified subcategorization theory fully expresses complement selection. Principal results of that framework constitute the initial essay of Part I. areas.In Romance languages, classic generative debates have singled out clitic and causative constructions as the most challenging. Separate essays in Part II lay out the often complex paradigms and propose detailed syntactic solutions, simple in their overall architecture yet rich in detailed predictions. Concerning movements to clausal edges, especially controversial topics include passives, English parasitic gaps, and the nature of verb-second systems exemplified by German. The essays in Part III each use rather surprising but still theoretically constrained structural accounts to solve thorny problems in all three.

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