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On the realization of LF-Binding in some degree dependencies
Abstract
This paper analyzes degree constructions in Romanian and describes a visibility requirement based on representations at the level of Logical Form. The proposal thus follows the mechanism of LF-binding (Hulk & Verheugd 1994). We transfer this insight to the extraction and binding of degrees, by observing certain correlations between constructions for which a parameter of degree binding has been suggested (Beck, Oda & Sugisaki 2004), and the overt realization of the same key constructions in Romanian. The analysis is developed in terms of last-resort insertion of functional material within the adjectival shell which is bound over at LF.
Abstract
This paper analyzes degree constructions in Romanian and describes a visibility requirement based on representations at the level of Logical Form. The proposal thus follows the mechanism of LF-binding (Hulk & Verheugd 1994). We transfer this insight to the extraction and binding of degrees, by observing certain correlations between constructions for which a parameter of degree binding has been suggested (Beck, Oda & Sugisaki 2004), and the overt realization of the same key constructions in Romanian. The analysis is developed in terms of last-resort insertion of functional material within the adjectival shell which is bound over at LF.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- In support of a syntactic analysis of double agreement phenomena in Spanish 1
- The syntax of Spanish comparative correlatives 17
- Functional vowels in main questions in Northern Italian dialects 37
- Middle scrambling with deictic locatives in European Portuguese 59
- Morphosyntactic variation in the temporal construals of non-root modals 77
- On the realization of LF-Binding in some degree dependencies 105
- Some remarks on the evidential nature of the Romanian presumptive 125
- Toward a syntactic reinterpretation of Harris & Halle (2005) 145
- The puzzle of subjunctive tenses 171
- Nounness, gender, class and syntactic structures in Italian nouns 195
- States and temporal interpretation in Capeverdean 215
- Pluractional verbs that grammaticise number through the part-of relation 233
- Language index 249
- Word index 251
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- In support of a syntactic analysis of double agreement phenomena in Spanish 1
- The syntax of Spanish comparative correlatives 17
- Functional vowels in main questions in Northern Italian dialects 37
- Middle scrambling with deictic locatives in European Portuguese 59
- Morphosyntactic variation in the temporal construals of non-root modals 77
- On the realization of LF-Binding in some degree dependencies 105
- Some remarks on the evidential nature of the Romanian presumptive 125
- Toward a syntactic reinterpretation of Harris & Halle (2005) 145
- The puzzle of subjunctive tenses 171
- Nounness, gender, class and syntactic structures in Italian nouns 195
- States and temporal interpretation in Capeverdean 215
- Pluractional verbs that grammaticise number through the part-of relation 233
- Language index 249
- Word index 251
