Structures and beyond /

Adriana Belletti here collects work presented by top scholars at a workshop at the University of Siena in connection with a visit by Noam Chomsky. These eight articles go beyond strictly mapping syntactic properties, touching on broader theoretical questions related to Chomsky's Minimalist Prog...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Certosa di Pontignano (Pontignano, Italy)
Other Authors: Belletti, Adriana
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Series:Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
Cartography of syntactic structures ; v. 3.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=146915
Table of Contents:
  • Language categories in the brain : evidence from aphasia / Alfonso Caramazza and Kevin Shapiro
  • Scalar implicatures, polarity phenomena, and the syntax/pragmatics interface / Gennaro Chierchia
  • Beyond explanatory adequacy / Noam Chomsky
  • "Restructuring" and functional structure / Guglielmo Cinque
  • Prepositions as probes / Richard S. Kayne
  • Linguistic rhythm and the acquisition of language / Jacques Mehler and Marina Nespor
  • Locality and left periphery / Luigi Rizzi
  • On the inexistence of specifiers and the nature of heads / Michal Starke.