Coordination in Syntax

ISBN-13: 9780521767552 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 273 str.

Niina Ning Zhang

Opis

Addresses the syntactic issues raised by coordinate pairings, with particularly emphasis on their properties in English and Chinese.

Spis treści

Acknowledgement; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part I. No Special Syntactic Configuration: 2. The complementation structure of coordinate complexes; Part II. No Special Syntactic Category: 3. The categorial makeup of coordinate complexes; Part III. No Special Syntactic Constraint: 4. The Conjunct Constraint and the morphological properties of coordinators; 5. The Element Constraint and the semantic relatedness of conjuncts; 6. Three puzzles solved by rejecting the CSC; 7. Relativized parallelism in syntactic complexes; Part IV. No Special Syntactic Operation: 8. The derivation of coordinate clauses with identity adjectives; 9. Deriving across-the-board constructions without forking movement; 10. Conclusions; References.