Deriving Syntactic Relations
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Deriving Syntactic Relations
Author: John S. Bowers
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2018-04-19
This book proposes that the fundamental building blocks of syntax are relations between words rather than constituents formed from words.
A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations
Author: Samuel David Epstein
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 1998-10-15
This book presents a Minimalist analysis of syntactic relations. The authors argue that certain fundamental relations such as c-command, dominance, and checking relations can be explained within a derivational approach to structure-building couched within a new and controversial level-free model of the syntactic component of the human language faculty.
Deriving Coordinate Symmetries
Author: John R. te Velde
language: en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date: 2006-01-18
This monograph proposes a minimalist, phase-based approach to the derivation of coordinate structures, utilizing the operations Copy and Match to account for both the symmetries and asymmetries of coordination. Data are drawn primarily from English, German and Dutch. The basic assumptions are that all coordinate structures are symmetric to some degree (in contrast to parasitic gap and many verb phrase ellipsis constructions), and these symmetries, especially with ellipsis, allow syntactic derivations to utilize Copy and Match in interface with active memory for economizing with gaps and assuring clarity of interpretation. With derivations operating at the feature level, troublesome properties of coordinate structures such as cross-categorial and non-constituent coordination, violations of the Coordinate Structure Constraint, as well as coordinate ellipsis (Gapping, RNR, Left-Edge Ellipsis) are accounted for without separate mechanisms or conditions applicable only to coordinate structures. The proposal provides support for central assumptions about the structure of West Germanic.