The Complementizer Phase by E Phoevos Panagiotidis
This book draws together nine original investigations by leading linguists and promising young scholars on the syntax of complementisers (eg that in She said that she would) and their phrases. The chapters are divided into two parts, each of which highlights aspects of the behaviour and function of complementisers. The first part looks at how and when subjects, or parts of subjects, can and cannot move outside their canonical position in a sentence. Each chapter examines and compares the relevance of a number of syntactic factors in languages such as English, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Brazilian Portuguese and Bavarian. In the second part, the focus turns to the nature and function of complementisers themselves, with discussions drawing on evidence from Italian, Italian dialects, Hebrew, and Dutch.-
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
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Definiteness in Balkan Romance
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Nominalization
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Telicity, Change, and State
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Modals and Conditionals
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Concealed Questions
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Interfaces in Linguistics
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Control and Restructuring
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The Logic of Pronominal Resumption
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Gender and Noun Classification
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Contrast and Representations in Syntax
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The Grammar of Expressivity
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Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives
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Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization
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Lexical Plurals
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The Syntax of Sentential Stress
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The Verbal Complex in Romance
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Diagnosing Syntax
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Phonetics, Phonology, and Cognition
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External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations
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Adjectives and Adverbs
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Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
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The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence
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Optimality Theoretic Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
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Continuations and Natural Language
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The Unaccusativity Puzzle
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Strategies of Quantification
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Sentence and Discourse
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The Syntax of Silence
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Canonical Forms in Prosodic Morphology
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Genericity
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The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax
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Ways of Structure Building
The chapters in this volume, drawn from Cyprus Syntaxfest, the most important international linguistics event of 2006, provide exciting and stimulating illustrations of the current theoretical focus on syntactic edge phenomena, and why there is so much to learn from them* Richard K. Larson, Stony Brook University *
E. Phoevos Panagiotidis is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cyprus. He is the author of Pronouns, Clitics and Empty Nouns (John Benjamins 2002) and has published numerous articles on syntactic theory in Lingua, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Inquiry, and the Journal of Greek Linguistics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199584369 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199584362 |
| Title | The Complementizer Phase |
| Author | E Phoevos Panagiotidis |
| Series | Oxford Studies In Theoretical Linguistics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2010-08-05 |
| Number of pages | 306 |
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