Title:
Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of Language by Milan Rezac.
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory,
Studies in natural language and linguistic theory,
Author:
Rezac, Milan.
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General Notes:
Acknowledgments -- Conventions and glosses -- Preface -- 1 Modularity, phi-features, and repairs -- 2 Phi-features in realizational morphology -- 3 Person Hierarchy interactions in syntax -- 4 Person Case Constraint repairs in French -- 5 Repairs and uninterpretable features -- 6 Phi in syntax and phi interpretation -- Name and Subject index.
This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of "uninterpretable" phi-features: person, number, gender, and Case. It provides new tools and evidence for the modular architecture of the human language faculty, a foundational topic of linguistic research. At the same time it develops a new theory for one of the core issues posed by the Minimalist Program: the relationship of syntax to its interfaces and the nature of uninterpretable features. The work sets out to establish a new cross-linguistic phenomenon to study the foregoing, person-governed last-resort repairs, which provides new insights into the nature of ergative/accusative Case and of Case licensing itself. This is the first monograph that explicitly addresses the syntactic vs. morphological status of uninterpretable phi-features and their relationship to interface systems in a similar way, drawing on person-based interactions among arguments as key data-base.
Publisher:
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Place:
Dordrecht :
ISBN:
9789048196982
Subject:
Linguistics.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Linguistics.
Linguistics (general).
Syntax.
Series:
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 81
Studies in natural language and linguistic theory, 81
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Conventions and glosses -- Preface -- 1 Modularity, phi-features, and repairs -- 2 Phi-features in realizational morphology -- 3 Person Hierarchy interactions in syntax -- 4 Person Case Constraint repairs in French -- 5 Repairs and uninterpretable features -- 6 Phi in syntax and phi interpretation -- Name and Subject index.
Physical Description:
XVIII, 326 p. digital.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9698-2
Publication Date:
2011.
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