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Author Hunter, Tim, 1982-

Title Syntactic effects of conjunctivist semantics : unifying movement and adjunction / Tim Hunter.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today ; v. 170
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 170.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax is proposed, guided by an independently motivated hypothesis about the composition of neo-Davidsonian logical forms, in which there is no atomic movement operation and no atomic adjunction operation. The terms 'movement' and 'adjunction' serve only as convenient labels for certain combinations of other, primitive operations, and as a result the system derives non-trivial predictions about how movement and adjunction should interact; in particular, it yields natural explanatory accounts of the constituency of adjunction structures, the possibility of counter-cyclic attachment, and the prohibitions on extraction from adjoined domains (adjunct islands) and from moved domains (freezing effects). This work serves as a case study in deriving explanations for syntactic patterns from a restrictive theory of semantic composition, and in using an explicit grammatical framework to inform rigourous minimalist theorising.
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Subject Semantics.
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Conjunctions.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Conjunctions.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adjuncts.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adjuncts.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Hunter, Tim, 1982- Syntactic effects of conjunctivist semantics. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2011 9789027255532 (DLC) 2010050510 (OCoLC)689858583
ISBN 9789027287328 (electronic book)
9027287325 (electronic book)
1283174960
9781283174961
9789027255532
9027255539
Standard No. 9786613174963