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Local Instability: Split Topicalization and Quantifier Float in German: 544 Bilingual Edition
Author(s): Ott (Author)
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication Date: 26 Oct. 2017
- Edition: Bilingual
- Language: English
- Print length: 184 pages
- ISBN-10: 3110290375
- ISBN-13: 9783110290370
Book Description
This monograph explores some consequences of the abandonment of phrase-structure grammar in favor of a Merge-based syntax, which dispenses with the notion of ‘projection.’ This reduced architecture is shown to shed new light on two long-standing problems in syntactic theory: split topicalization and quantifier float are analyzed as deriving from underlying exocentric (label-less) constituents in argument or adjunct position, which necessitate symmetry-breaking displacement. The analysis developed in this work thus constitutes an important step towards a more minimal syntax.
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About the Author
Dennis Ott, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
