Diachronic and Comparative Syntax

ISBN-13: 9780367586676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 558 str.

Ian Roberts

Opis

This book brings together for the first time a series of previously published papers featuring Ian Roberts’ pioneering work on diachronic and comparative syntax over the last thirty years in one comprehensive volume.

Spis treści

Part I: Diachronic Syntax

1. Agreement Parameters and the Development of English Modal Auxilaries

2. A Computational Approach to Language Learnability and Language Change (with Robin Clark)

3. Object Movement and Verb Movement in Early Modern English

4. Directionality and Word Order Change in the History of English

5. Verb Movement and Markedness

6. Theoretical Consequences (with Anna Roussou)

7. Cascading Parameter Changes: Internally-driven Change in Middle and Early Modern English (with Theresa Biberauer)

Part II: Comparative Syntax

8. Passive Arguments Raised (with Mark Baker & Kyle Johnson)

9. Complex Inversion in French (with Luigi Rizzi)

10. Excorporation and Minimality

11. Two Types of Head Movement in Romance

12. Clause Structure and X-Second (with Anna Carinaletti)

13. The Analysis of VSO Clauses

14. Introduction: Parameters in Minimalist Theory (with Anders Holmberg)

15. Macroparameters and Minimalism: A Programme for Comparative Research

O autorze

Ian Roberts is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. His most recent publications include Syntactic Variation in Minimalist Syntax, with Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg and Michelle Sheehan　(2010) and Agreement and Head Movement　(2010).