Pesetsky, David

Phrasal Movement and Its Kin (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs).

Cambridge, MA. : The MIT Press, 2000. Paperback. 144 pp.(Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 37). - This study investigates the types of movement and movement-like relations that link positions in syntactic structure. David Pesetsky argues that there are three such relations. Besides overt phasal movement, there are two distinct types of movement without phonological effect: covert phrasal movement and feature movement. Focusing on wh-questions, he shows how his classification of movement-like relations allows us to understand the story behind wh-questions in which an otherwise inviolable property of movement -- Attract Closest -- appears to be violated. By demonstrating that more movement takes place in such configurations than previously suspected, he shows that Attract Closest is actually not violated at all in these cases. This conclusion draws on recent research in both syntax and semantics, and depends crucially on Pesetsky's expanded repertoire of movement-like relations.English text. Condition : fine & unread. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780262661669.

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PESETSKY, DAVID.

Zero syntax : experiencers and cascades.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1995. Orig. cloth. With dustjacket. xviii,352 pp.: fig.; 24 cm. - "Current Studies in Linguistics ; 27" Includes bibliographical references pp. 331-341 and indexes. Text in English. (previous owner's name at top of title page) Otherwise as new. Gewicht/Weight: 840 grs.

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Pesetsky, David

Zero Syntax: Experiencers and Cascades.

Cambridge, MA. : The MIT Press, 1995. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 376 pp.(Current Studies in Linguistics, 27). - The analysis and theory developed in Zero Syntax is an important contribution to the understanding of Universal Grammar. The overriding theme is the notion that the availability and syntactic positioning of arguments is not a matter of chance but arises from laws governing the structure of lexical entries and from laws governing syntactic structures themselves. Along the way, Zero Syntax also examines issues of broad significance to current theoretical linguistic research in syntax and lexical semantics.Zero Syntax develops two main topics: a simple view of syntactic linking regularities that it defends in the domain of Experiencer predicates (predicates such as annoy), and a theory of syntactic constituency that involves two parallel modes of structural organization (one of which is the Cascade syntax). The theme that ties these issues together is the supposition that phonologically null (zero) morphology is present in structure, detectable through its syntactic and morphological consequences.The arguments in Zero Syntax will be relevant to debates about such issues as empty elements in syntax and morphology, whether syntactic structures should be binary branching, the structure of double-object constructions, and whether verbs have multiple meanings related by lexical rules or abstract/general meanings that are ambiguated in particular constructions.English text. Condition : fine & unread. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780262161459.

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