商品簡介
This volume collects ten papers from the June 2007 second Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics addressing alternatives to cartography, which in the field of generative grammar refers to the idea that sentence structure can be represented as a template of fixed positions, each which can be filled by a limited set of syntactico-semantic elements, that are seen as universal totally ordered sets of functional projections, the specifiers of which serve as merger sites or as landing sites for XP-movement. Topics addressed by the papers include a syntactic typology of topic, focus, and contrast; a compositional view of focus, topic, and word order; left-to-right merge, scrambling, and binary structure in European Portuguese; auxiliary inversion in German verb clusters; adjective placement and linearization; and implications of improper movement for cartography. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, University College Brussels, Belgium.
