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Title Of grammar, words, and verses : in honor of Carlos Piera / edited by Esther Torrego.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Language faculty and beyond: internal and external variation in linguistics ; 8
Language faculty and beyond ; v. 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Of Grammar, Words, and Verses; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Structure at the bottom; 1. Introduction; 2. Is there room at the bottom?; 3. Lexicalism strikes back; 4. Structural complexity within the lexicon?; 5. Towards a biolinguistic solution embracing complexity?; 6. Concluding remarks; Notes; References; Chapter 2. The absent, the silent, and the audible: Some thoughts on the morphology of silent verbs; 1. Introduction; 2. Two more cases; Notes; References.
Chapter 3. Lexical change and the architecture of the Lexicon1. Introduction; 2. Semitic roots, words and Lexicon; 3. The evidence from lexical change; 4. Change that targets roots: WALK> GO; 5. Change that targets words: GOING> TENSE[future]; 6. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 1. Introduction; 2. Strict meter; 3. Loose meter; 4. Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 5. The metrical system of William Carlos Williams; Notes; References; 1. Introduction: Merging theoretical linguistics with experimental methods; 2. Is there order when processing free word order?
3. How are subjects processed in an ergative language?4. Further investigating linearization and subject preference; 5. What does the subject-preference strategy prefer in an ergative language?; 6. Electrophysiological correlates of linearization and subject preferences; 7. Subject preference vanishes in verb medial, non-canonical sentences; 8. Concluding discussion; Aknowledgements; Notes; References; Chapter 7. On the fronting of non-contrastive topics in Germanic; 1. Background; 2. Recent accounts of fronting of non-contrastive topics in German.
3. Discourse-triggered movement without Agree4. A look at Mainland Scandinavian; 5. Concluding remarks; Notes; References; Chapter 8. Blackjack! 21 arguments that agreeing adjectives are derived nominals; 3. Adjectival pre-nominal agreement in Germanic languages; 4. Adjectival word order and null inflectional heads in English; 5. Further consequences of non-phrasal adjectival structure; 6. The economy of Latin agreement and its daughters in Romance; 7. Reducing Czech Adjectival Agreement to case on grammatical Ns; Notes; References.
Chapter 9. Connectivity and definiteness in an English equative construction1. Introduction; 2. Raising to subject from post-verbal small clauses; 3. Prospects; 4. Connectivity of selection restrictions; 5. Definiteness effects; 6. The construction is a type of equative; 7. Towards an explanation; 8. Conclusion; Notes; References; 1. Facts and background proposals; 2. A Phrasal Spell-Out proposal; 3. Summary; Notes; References; Chapter 11. Variability in the case patterns of causative formation in Romance and its implications; 1. Introduction; 2. Two types of FI causatives.
Summary This book offers new work by some major figures in the field of linguistics, addressing old debates from the perspective of current explanatory grammatical theory. These include paradigmatic relations among words, and agreeing adjectives and their grammatical source. Covering a broad range of empirical domains, the contributors of this volume examine the role of Economy in syntax and in syntactic interfaces with phonology and semantics, and their implications for processing. The evidence is taken from a great variety of languages, including Arabic dialects, Basque, Czech, Dutch, English, Frenc.
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Subject Versification.
Versification.
Linguistics.
Linguistics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Torrego, Esther.
Piera, Carlos, 1942-
Other Form: Print version: Of grammar, words, and verses. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 9789027208255 (DLC) 2012004427 (OCoLC)775420105
ISBN 9789027274564 (electronic book)
9027274568 (electronic book)
9789027208255 (electronic book)
9027208255 (electronic book)
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