Coreference, Modality, and Focus: Studies on the syntax–semantics interface: 111 (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027233756 ISBN 13: 9789027233752

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2007

Synopsis

This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVI^th Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework, mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the syntax-semantics interface. The major concerns are coreference relations, modals and modality, and focus/ellipsis. More specifically, the contributions present research findings from different languages, often adopting a comparative perspective, and include studies on sub-extraction from subjects and objects; on obviation and Control structures; on specificity and Weak Crossover effects; and on reconstruction without movement, as well as papers that address the scopal interactions between tense/aspect and modals; the syntactic and semantic properties of different types of left-periphery operators; and the role focus plays in elliptical constructions.

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Synopsis

A rigorous selection of 10 papers from an April 2006 conference on generative grammar, held in Madrid, offers insights into persistent debates in theoretical linguistics. They address current syntactic and/or interpretive issues within the generative framework, mostly dealing with co-reference, modality, and focus/ellipsis. One paper on syntactic c

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027233756
• ISBN 13: 9789027233752
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Eguren Luis, Fernández-Soriano Olga