A feature-based syntax of functional categories : the structure, acquisition, and specific impairment of functional systems / by Michael Hegarty.

A feature-based syntax of functional categories : the structure, acquisition, and specific impairment of functional systems /

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterio...

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Main Author: Hegarty, Michael, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2005.
Series:Studies in generative grammar ; 79.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammatical categories.
Functionalism (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
English language > Grammar, Historical.
Language acquisition.
Language disorders.
Language Development
Language Disorders
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1. Aims and approach
  • 2. Elements of Minimalist syntax
  • 3. Feature-based projection of functional categories
  • Chapter 2: A feature-based derivation of functional heads
  • 1. The syntactic utility of functional heads
  • 2. Derived functional heads
  • 2.1. Derived functional heads in the literature
  • 2.2. Feature matrices and constraints
  • 2.3. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3: Germanic verb-second and expletive subjects
  • 1. Patterns of Germanic verb-second
  • 2. Expletive subjects
  • 3. Verb-second and the Top domain in Old English and Middle English3.1. Early English verb-second
  • 3.2. A feature-based account of Old and Middle English verb-second
  • 3.3. Middle English dialects and language change
  • 3.4. Streamlining accounts of Old English word order below the TOPIC domain
  • Notes
  • Chapter 4: Aspects of clitic placement and clitic climbing
  • 1. Head movement accounts of clitic placement
  • 2. Verb and clitic movement
  • 2.1. Mechanics of clitic placement in Italian and Spanish
  • 2.2. Clitic placement in French
  • 2.3. Imperatives
  • 2.4. The orders of multiple object clitics in Modern Greek3. Problems with clitic climbing in a feature-based syntax
  • 4. A feature-based approach to clitic climbing
  • 4.1. Restructuring
  • 4.2. Mechanics of clitic climbing with feature-derived functional categories
  • 4.3. Some properties of clitic climbing
  • 4.4. Other accounts of clitic climbing
  • 4.5. Clitic climbing out of finite clauses in Salentino
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5: Tenseless clauses and coordination
  • 1. Accusative subject conjuncts
  • 1.1. Properties of the accusative subject conjunct construction1.2. The structure of coordination in the ASC construction
  • 1.3. The internal structure of the ASC clause
  • 2. Small clause complements of perception verbs
  • 2.1. The ASC-like structure of “Bare Infinitiveâ€? complements
  • 2.2. Higginbothamâ€?s (1983) account
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6: The acquisition of functional features
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Preliminaries
  • 2.1. Feature projection versus functional category adjunction
  • 2.2. The present study
  • 3. Results
  • 3.1. Peter
  • 3.2. Nina
  • 3.3. Naomi4. Discussion and conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 7: The acquisition of adult functional categories
  • 1. Theories and predictions
  • 1.1. Strong continuity accounts
  • 1.2. Radfordâ€?s maturational theory
  • 1.3. Induction
  • 1.4. Bottom-up structure building accounts
  • 1.5. Feature-based theory of functional categories
  • 1.6. Processing capacity, working memory, and phrase structure complexity
  • 2. Procedures
  • 2.1. Counting functional categories
  • 2.2. Size normalization and nominative subject filtering

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