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This monograph offers an in depth investigation of nominalization processes across languages e.g. Greek, Germanic, Romance, Hebrew, Slavic. Adopting and extending the view that category formation does not involve any lexical operation (recently put forth within the framework of Distributed Morphology), it shows how the behavior of nominals as opposed to that of verbs follows from general processes operating in specific syntactic structures, and is linked with the presence or absence of functional layers (T, D, Aspect, v). It further defines criteria on the basis of which the organization of nominal functional structure can be determined. Moreover, it demonstrates how nominals split into several types, across languages and within a language, depending on the number and the type of functional projections they include. Furthermore, it substantiates the hypothesis that aspects of the syntax of DPs of nominative-accusative languages are strikingly similar to aspects of the syntax of ergative languages and discusses aspects of the syntax of the perfect. The book targets researchers in theoretical linguistics, comparative syntax, morphology and typology. It can also be used as a foundation book on the morpho-syntax of nominals, argument structure and word formation.

801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Grammar --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Linguistics / General --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Linguistics --- Structural linguistics --- Derivational morphology --- Word formation --- Ergative (Linguistics) --- Nominals (Grammar) --- Noun-equivalents (Grammar) --- Substantives (Grammar) --- Nominals --- Ergative constructions --- Derivation --- Morphology --- Ergative case --- Case --- Syntax --- Noun phrase --- Philology --- Nominals. --- Ergative constructions. --- Word formation.

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This monograph investigates a number of central issues in the Syntax of Adverbs with special reference to Greek in the light of Kayne's (1994) Antisymmetry Hypothesis. It examines the conditions on the placement of the various adverb types, their licensing requirements, and their relation to adjectives. The author advances an analysis according to which adverbs are licensed as Specifiers of functional projections in the clausal domain. As such, they enter a matching relation with the relevant features of the respective functional head. Adverbs are either directly merged at the relevant functio

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Greek language, Modern --- Romaic language --- Generative grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Adverb. --- Syntax. --- Word order. --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Syntax

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The volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative work on Modern Greek morpho-syntax. The book is divided into three parts. Part I of the book deals with argument alternations, part II with clitics and part III with the syntax and semantics of free relatives. The book will be interesting for scholars working on Greek but also in theoretical linguistics, as it exemplifies how the study of Greek feeds the development of generative theory. The issues discussed in the book are curre...

Greek language --- Greek language, Modern --- Romaic language --- Classical languages --- Indo-European languages --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Morphosyntax. --- Syntax.

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The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 21st and 22nd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Stuttgart. The contributions provide insightful discussions of several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of contemporary and historical Germanic languages. The theoretical issues explored include: the left periphery, with a number of contributions touching on the pros and contras of cartographic accounts; different aspects of word order and how it arises from movement and clause structure; the interplay of thematic relations and case theory with the realization of DPs; and the treatment of finiteness and modal structures. This book is of interest to syntacticians working in a comparative perspective and to advanced undergraduates.

Germanic languages --- Grammar, Comparative. --- Syntax. --- 801.56 --- 803 --- 803 Germaanse taalkunde --- Germaanse taalkunde --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Grammaire comparée --- Langues germaniques --- Syntaxe

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This volume presents a cross-section of current research on the internal syntax of 'Determiner Phrases` (DPs), with special emphasis on the analysis of DPs modified by genitival, adjectival and other non-finite attributes. Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the DP illustrates clearly the ongoing debate over older and more recent approaches to the syntax of DPs in particular in the wake of the minimalist program (Chomsky 1995) and Kayne's antisymmetry hypothesis (Kayne 1994). The relative theoretical coherence among the contributions permits detailed comparison of specific syntactic

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- -Grammar, Comparative and general --- -Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Possessives --- Verb phrase --- Determiners --- Grammar, Comparative --- Possessives. --- Verb phrase. --- Determiners. --- -Linguistics --- -Possessives