This book develops ideas of Minimalist syntax to derive functional categories from the partially-ordered features expressed by functional elements, thereby dispensing with functional categories as primitives of the theory. It generalizes attempts to do this in the literature, while drawing significant empirical consequences from general constraints formulated to block overgeneration. The resulting theory of the construction of functional categories is applied to various problems in syntactic analysis and comparative and historical syntax, including variation across Germanic languages in patterns of verb-second and in the occurrence of expletive subjects in existential constructions, verb positions in Old and Middle English, problems regarding the placement of clitic pronouns in Romance languages and Modern Greek, and some previously unexamined structures of reduced clause coordination in colloquial English. Facts from early stages of the acquisition of syntax are shown to follow from the mechanisms for the projection of functional features as functional categories, exercised before all of the features for a language, along with their ordering and feature co-occurrence restrictions, have been acquired. It is observed that child acquisition of functional elements exhibits successive developmental stages, each characterized by the number of clausal functional elements which can be represented together within a clause. This, and facts regarding the lag in development of functional categories by children with specific language impairment, are shown to be not entirely reducible to limitations in working memory or processing capacity, but to depend in part on the growth of representational resources for the projection of functional categories.
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Michael Hegarty is Assistant Professor at the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA.
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adult functional categories, phrase structure complexity, clausal functional categories, functional category acquisition, phrasal complexity, functional category stage, adult functional category, multiple functional categories, clausal phrase structure, full nominal subject, functional phrase structure, more stringent count, functional category system, basic representational resources, suppletive imperatives, tree restructuring operation, linear order defining, structure building accounts, minimal suite, restructuring infinitive, single functional head, clausal feature, complementizer features, representational pressure, clitic climbing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Economy of Projection of Infl-Categories, Mainland Scandinavian, Economy of Feature Projection, Swiss German, Middle English, Agro Mario, Catholic Homilies, Economy of Derivation, First Series, Modern Greek, Subj Neg, Tree Adjoining Grammar, Mario Mario, Modem Italian New!
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Different approaches to a generative syntactic theory pursue different goals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
adult functional categories, phrase structure complexity, clausal functional categories, functional category acquisition, phrasal complexity, functional category stage, adult functional category, multiple functional categories, clausal phrase structure, full nominal subject, functional phrase structure, more stringent count, functional category system, basic representational resources, suppletive imperatives, tree restructuring operation, linear order defining, structure building accounts, minimal suite, restructuring infinitive, single functional head, clausal feature, complementizer features, representational pressure, clitic climbing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Economy of Projection of Infl-Categories, Mainland Scandinavian, Economy of Feature Projection, Swiss German, Middle English, Agro Mario, Catholic Homilies, Economy of Derivation, First Series, Modern Greek, Subj Neg, Tree Adjoining Grammar, Mario Mario, Modem Italian New!
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- Verb Second Phenomena in Germanic Languages by H. Haider in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Verb Movement by David Lightfoot in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Children with Specific Language Impairment (Language, Speech, and Communication) by Laurence B. Leonard on page 280, and Back Matter
- The Proceedings of the Fourteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes) by Jose Camacho in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Step by Step: Essays on Minimalist Syntax in Honor of Howard Lasnik by Roger Martin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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