The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads

The essays here cover a wide range of topics: the interpretation and distribution of pronouns; ECP effects; specifiers and phrase structure; heads; the role and functioning of head movement; and the architecture of grammar.

Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as:

• interpretation and distribution of pronouns
• ECP effects
• specifiers and phrase structure
• the role and functioning of head movement

• the architecture of grammar
  Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch.

  Autorentext

  Hilda J Koopman

  Klappentext

  Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as: interpretation and distribution of pronouns ECP effects specifiers and phrase structure the role and functioning of head movement * the architecture of grammar Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch.

  Inhalt
  Acknowledgments, Introduction, PART I Pronouns and WCO, PART II ECP, PART III Specifiers and phrase structure, PART IV Heads, PART V Specifiers and Heads, Index