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The authors provide a compelling argument for a radically modular view of the human language faculty. The authors argue that complex words are generated by a dedicated rule system which interacts with the syntax on the one hand and the phonology on the other.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Morphology. --- Phonology. --- Syntax. --- Word formation. --- Grammar --- Derivational morphology --- Word formation --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Phonology --- Morphology (Linguistics) --- Morphology --- Derivation --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Morphology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology

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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Case. --- Syntax.

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A proposal that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a "person space" at the heart of every pronominal expression.This book offers a significant reconceptualization of the person system in natural language. The authors, leading scholars in syntax and its interfaces, propose that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a "person space" at the heart of every pronominal expression. They map the journey of person features in grammar, from semantics through syntax to the system of morphological realization. Such an in-depth cross-modular study allows the development of a theory in which assumptions made about the behavior of a given feature in one module bear on possible assumptions about its behavior in other modules. The authors'new theory of person, built on a sparse set of two privative person features, delivers a typologically adequate inventory of persons; captures the semantics of personal pronouns, impersonal pronouns, and R-expressions; accounts for aspects of their syntactic behavior; and explains patterns of person-related syncretism in the realization of pronouns and inflectional endings. The authors discuss numerous observations from the literature, defend a number of theoretical choices that are either new or not generally accepted, and present novel empirical findings regarding phenomena as different as honorifics, number marking, and unagreement.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Generative grammar --- Person --- Pronoun --- Pronomials --- Morphosyntax

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In the 1980's generative grammar recognized that functional material is able to project syntactic structure in conformity with the X-bar-format. This insight soon led to a considerable increase in the inventory of functional projections. The basic idea behind this line of theorizing, which goes by the name of cartography, is that sentence structure can be represented as a template of linearly ordered positions, each with their own syntactic and semantic import. In recent years, however, a number of problems have been raised for this approach. For example, certain combinations of syntactic elements cannot be linearly ordered. In light of such problems a number of alternative accounts have been explored. Some of them propose a new (often interface-related) trigger for movement, while others seek alternative means of accounting for various word order patterns. These alternatives to cartography do not form a homogeneous group, nor has there thus far been a forum where these ideas could be compared and confronted with one another. This volume fills that gap. It offers a varied and in-depth view on the position taken by a substantial number of researchers in the field today on what is presumably one of the most hotly debated and controversial issues in present-day generative grammar.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Generative grammar. --- Phrase structure grammar. --- Constituent structure grammar --- Grammar, Phrase structure --- Generative grammar --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Word order --- Order (Grammar) --- Word order. --- Derivation --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Syntax. --- cartography.

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