The emergence of order in syntax - Fortuny (John Benjamins Pub., 2008)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and indexes
The Emergence of Order in Syntax; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; TABLE OF CONTENTS; PROLOGUE; PART I. ELEMENTS OF SYNTAX; 1. ELEMENTS OF SYNTAX; PART II. PATTERNS; 2. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMPLEMENTIZERS AND INFLECTIONAL CATEGORIES; 3. DISCONTINUOUS SYNTACTIC PATTERNS; 4. ANALYTIC SYNTACTIC PATTERNS; 5. SYNCRETIC SYNTACTIC PATTERN; PART III. CONCLUSION; 6. ON THE EMERGENCE OF ORDER IN SYNTAX; REFERENCES; SUBJECT INDEX; LANGUAGE INDEX; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
The syntactic component of the faculty of language is argued to be a rewiring of a few independently motivated components: features, the conjunction of a successive operation of union-formation ('Merge') and of derivational records ('nests'), and principles of analysis. Since nests linearize terminals (Kuratowski 1921), Kayne's (1994) LCA becomes dispensable. The study of how features are ordered in discontinuous, analytic and syncretic patterns, governed by the Full Interpretation Condition and the Maximize Matching Effects Principle, provides a simple account for several syntactic phenomena