Local Instability: Split Topicalization and Quantifier Float in German
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Main Author: Ott, Dennis (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin De Gruyter 2012
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten
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This monograph explores some consequences of the abandonment of phrase-structure grammar in favor of a Merge-based syntax, which dispenses with the notion of 'projection.' This reduced architecture is shown to shed new light on two long-standing problems in syntactic theory: split topicalization and quantifier float are analyzed as deriving from underlying exocentric (label-less) constituents in argument or adjunct position, which necessitate symmetry-breaking displacement. The analysis developed in this work thus constitutes an important step towards a more minimal syntax
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-171 ) and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (184 p.)
ISBN:3110290375
3110290952
9783110290370
9783110290950

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