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Beyond Principles and Parameters

Essays in Memory of Osvaldo Jaeggli

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  • © 1999

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  1. Kyle Johnson

    1. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

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  2. Ian Roberts

    1. University of Stuttgart, Germany

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Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 45)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    • Kyle Johnson, Ian Roberts
    Pages 1-11

  3. Clitic-Doubled Arguments

    • Joseph Aoun
    Pages 13-42

  4. Deconstructing the Construct

    • Hagit Borer
    Pages 43-89

  5. The Internal and External Distribution of Pronominal DPs

    • Hilda Koopman
    Pages 91-132

  6. Spanish Passivized Datives: The Relevance of Misanalysis

    • Mario Montalbetti
    Pages 133-144

  7. The Selection Properties of Aspectual Verbs

    • Anne Rochette
    Pages 145-165

  8. Subject Predication within IP and DP

    • Mamoru Saito, Keiko Murasugi
    Pages 167-188

  9. Subject Clitics in French and Romance Complex Inversion and Clitic Doubling

    • Dominique Sportiche
    Pages 189-221

  10. Word Order in Spanish and the Nature of Nominative Case

    • Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
    Pages 223-250

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 251-257
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Kyle Johnson University of Massachusetts at Amherst Ian Roberts University of Stuttgart An important chapter in the history of syntactic theory opened as the 70's reached their close. The revolution that Chomsky had brought to linguistics had to this point engendered theories which remained within the grip of the philologists' construction-based vision. Their image of language as a catalogue of independent constructions served as the backdrop against which much of transformational grammar's detailed exploration evolved. In a sense, the highly successful pursuit of th phonology and morphology in the 19 century as compared to the absence of similar results in syntax (beyond observations such as Wackemagel's Law, etc. ) attests to this: just noting that, for example, French relative clauses allow subject-postposing but not preposition-stranding while English relatives do not allow the former but do allow the latter does not take us far beyond a simple record of the facts. Prior to this point, th syntactic theory had not progressed beyond the 19 century situation. But as the 80's approached, this image began to give way to a different one: grammar as a puzzle of interlocking "modules," each made up of syntactic principles which cross-cut the philologist's constructions. More and more, "constructions" decomposed into the epiphenomenal interplay of encapsulated mini-theories: X Theory, Binding Theory, Bounding Theory, Case Theory, Theta Theory, and so on. Syntactic analyses became reoriented toward the twin goals of identifying the content of these modules and deconstructing into them the descriptive results of early transformational grammar.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

    Kyle Johnson

  • University of Stuttgart, Germany

    Ian Roberts

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Beyond Principles and Parameters

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Memory of Osvaldo Jaeggli

  • Editors: Kyle Johnson, Ian Roberts

  • Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4822-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5498-7Published: 31 December 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5501-4Published: 31 December 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4822-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4670

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 257

  • Topics: Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax, Comparative Linguistics

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