When grammars collide
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Michael T. Putnam
Abstract
This study provides a Survive-minimalist analysis of two issues related to DP-structures in code-switching (CS) grammars: (i) the relationship between determiners and nouns in a DP where each respective lexical item originates from a separate language and (ii) the linearization of Det(erminers)-Adj(ectives)- N(ouns) in CS-grammars where each respective language contributing a surface order contrasts with the other. Violable constraints that filter the selection possibilities (i.e., the operation Select) of determiners are posited. We contend that a formal feature, definiteness [+ Def], triggers the re-configuration of lexical items to conform to structural requires of a given CS-grammar. That same feature motivates both the det-adj-n and the det-n-adj orderings. The advantages to pursuing this analysis of DP linearity in CS-grammars are that it is: (i) consistent with the desiderata of Survive-minimalism and (ii) does not require features similar to the EPP to exist in the system.
Abstract
This study provides a Survive-minimalist analysis of two issues related to DP-structures in code-switching (CS) grammars: (i) the relationship between determiners and nouns in a DP where each respective lexical item originates from a separate language and (ii) the linearization of Det(erminers)-Adj(ectives)- N(ouns) in CS-grammars where each respective language contributing a surface order contrasts with the other. Violable constraints that filter the selection possibilities (i.e., the operation Select) of determiners are posited. We contend that a formal feature, definiteness [+ Def], triggers the re-configuration of lexical items to conform to structural requires of a given CS-grammar. That same feature motivates both the det-adj-n and the det-n-adj orderings. The advantages to pursuing this analysis of DP linearity in CS-grammars are that it is: (i) consistent with the desiderata of Survive-minimalism and (ii) does not require features similar to the EPP to exist in the system.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Preface ix
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Part I. Introduction
- Traveling without moving 3
- The numeration in Survive-minimalism 21
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Part II. Studies of movement phenomena and structure building in Survive-minimalism
- Long-distance agreement without Probe-Goal relations 41
- Musings on the left periphery in West Germanic 57
- Tense, finiteness and the survive principle 91
- When grammars collide 133
- Using the Survive principle for deriving coordinate (a)symmetries 169
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Part III. Covert and non-movement operations in Survive-minimalism
- Syntactic identity in Survive-minimalism 195
- Evidence for Survive from covert movement 231
- Language change and survive 257
- Towards a derivational syntax index 267
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Preface ix
-
Part I. Introduction
- Traveling without moving 3
- The numeration in Survive-minimalism 21
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Part II. Studies of movement phenomena and structure building in Survive-minimalism
- Long-distance agreement without Probe-Goal relations 41
- Musings on the left periphery in West Germanic 57
- Tense, finiteness and the survive principle 91
- When grammars collide 133
- Using the Survive principle for deriving coordinate (a)symmetries 169
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Part III. Covert and non-movement operations in Survive-minimalism
- Syntactic identity in Survive-minimalism 195
- Evidence for Survive from covert movement 231
- Language change and survive 257
- Towards a derivational syntax index 267
