Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure

Michelle Sheehan (ed), Laura R. Bailey (ed)

Synopsis

This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language.

 

This book is complemented by Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure

 

Chapters

  • On the softness of parameters
    An experiment on Faroese
    Höskuldur Thráinsson
    Chapter 1
  • The role of locatives in (partial) pro-drop languages
    Artemis Alexiadou, Janayna Carvalho
    Chapter 2
  • Expletives and speaker-related meaning
    Ciro Greco, Liliane Haegeman, Phan Trang
    Chapter 3
  • Places
    Tarald Taraldsen
    Chapter 4
  • Flexibility in symmetry
    An implicational relation in Bantu double object constructions
    Jenneke van der Wal
    Chapter 5
  • Defective intervention effects in two Greek varieties and their implications for φ-incorporation as Agree
    Elena Anagnostopoulou
    Chapter 6
  • On first person readings of man
    On semantic and pragmatic restrictions on an impersonal pronoun
    Verner Egerland
    Chapter 7
  • Who are we – and who is I?
    About Person and SELF
    Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson
    Chapter 8
  • New roles for Gender
    Evidence from Arabic, Semitic, Berber, and Romance
    Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
    Chapter 9
  • Puzzling parasynthetic compounds in Norwegian
    Janne Bondi Johannessen
    Chapter 10
  • A make-believe argument for abstract Case
    Jonathan Bobaljik
    Chapter 11
  • Semantic characteristics of recursive compounds
    Makiko Mukai
    Chapter 12
  • Icelandic as a partial null subject language
    Evidence from fake indexicals
    Susi Wurmbrand
    Chapter 17
  • Expletive passives in Scandinavian – with and without objects
    Elisabet Engdahl
    Chapter 13
  • Null Subjects Parameter meets Polish Impersonals
    Małgorzata Krzek
    Chapter 14
  • Verb-stranding VP ellipsis, object drop or ellipsis in Arabic yes-no replies
    Ali Algryani
    Chapter 15
  • Object Drop in Chinese
    Chi-Wai Lee
    Chapter 16

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Biographies

Michelle Sheehan

Michelle Sheehan is a Reader in Linguistics at Anglia Ruskin University. She specialises in comparative and theoretical syntax with a particular focus on Romance languages. She is co-author of Parametric Variation (2010, CUP) and The Philosophy of Universal Grammar (2013, OUP), and co-editor of Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order (2013, OUP).

Laura R. Bailey

Laura Bailey is a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Kent. She specialises in cross-linguistic and comparative syntax with a special interest in the left periphery, Latin word order, and non-standard English syntax. She also maintains a blog about language at http://linguistlaura.blogspot.co.uk.

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November 23, 2017
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Open Generative Syntax

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Sheehan, Michelle & Bailey, Laura R. (eds.). 2017. Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure. (Open Generative Syntax 2). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1115573
Copyright (c) 2017 Michelle Sheehan, Laura R. Bailey; Höskuldur Thráinsson, Artemis Alexiadou, Janayna Carvalho, Ciro Greco, Liliane Haegeman, Phan Trang, Tarald Taraldsen, Jenneke van der Wal, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Verner Egerland, Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson, Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Jonathan Bobaljik, Makiko Mukai, Elisabet Engdahl, Małgorzata Krzek, Ali Algryani, Chi-Wai Lee, Susi Wurmbrand

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