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Standard conceptions of Locality aim to establish that a dependency between two positions may not span too long a distance. This book explores the opposite conception, Anti-Locality: Don't move too close. The model of clause structure, syntactic computation, and locality concerns Kleanthes Grohmann develops makes crucial use of derivational sub-domains, Prolific Domains, each encapsulating particular context information (thematic, agreement, discourse). The Anti-Locality Hypothesis is the attempt to exclude anti-local movement from the grammar by banning movement within a Prolific Domain, a Bare Output Condition. The flexible application of the operation Spell Out, coupled with an innovative view on grammatical formatives, leads to a natural caveat: Copy Spell Out. Grohmann explores a theory of Anti-Locality relevant to all three Prolific Domains in the clausal layer as well as the nominal layer, and offers a unified account of Standard and Anti-Locality regarding clause-internal movement and operations across clause boundaries, revisiting successive cyclicity.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- -Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Syntax --- Grammar, Comparative --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics). --- Syntax. --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Grammar & Punctuation --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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This is the first volume dedicated to the study of formal features and the expression of arguments within Phase Theory, the latest model of syntactic theorizing within the Minimalist Program. The collection addresses the nature of formal features and their role in the syntactic computation as well as checking mechanisms and configurations. It also investigates theoretical issues underlying the nature of syntactic arguments and their licensing (argument structure at large) and specific grammatical operations involving arguments (abstract and morphological case, empty elements, passivization, negation, and aspect). The chapters presented in this volume provide case studies from several, typologically unrelated languages. Apart from novel analyses of new as well as well-known facts, the contributions also provide interesting aspects of and challenges for Phase Theory in general, by critically exploring a number of theoretical extensions, proposing new syntactic mechanisms, and sharpening our tools for linguistic analysis.

Grammar --- Linguistics --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Generative grammar --- Syntax. --- Derivation --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Minimalist Program.

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This work addresses the fundamental issues in the phase-based approach to the mental computation of language that have arisen from the recent developments in the Minimalist Programme. Leading linguists focus on phase theory and the interaction of syntax with the semantic and phonological interfaces.

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar

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Grammar --- Linguistics

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This volume collects research on language, cognition, and communication in multilingualism.

Multilingualism. --- Multilingualism