61 The origin of linguistic variation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Foreword XV
5. I Questions about nonfiniteness
6. 1 Finiteness, tense, person agreement 1
7. 2 How nonfinite domains differ from finite ones 11
8. 3 Crossing the verb/noun border 18
9. 4 A program 21
10. II Key concepts and emerging issues in recent syntactic theorizing
11. Introduction 25
12. 5 Categories and their labels 27
13. 6 Categories and their features: Inheritance and the C-T connection 32
14. 7 The licensing of overt and controlled subjects 39
15. 8 The semantics of nonfinite tense 55
16. III The morphosyntax of English gerund forms
17. Introduction 69
18. 9 The syntax/morphology interface 71
19. 10 Transcategorial items, mixed projections 79
20. 11 A preliminary classification of gerund phrases 81
21. 12 Lexical approaches to trancategoriality 83
22. 13 Syntactic accounts of transcategoriality 87
23. 14 Conclusion 100
24. IV The syntax of English gerund clauses
25. Introduction 103
26. 15 Some semantic properties of gerund domains 105
27. 16 How gerund constructions differ from one another 112
28. 17 A labeling analysis of Acc-ing constructions 123
29. 18 A category-switching analysis of Poss-ing constructions 129
30. 19 A note on nominal gerund constructions 133
31. 21 Summary 141
32. V The morphosyntax of verbo-nominal heads in contemporary Welsh
33. Introduction 145
34. 22 The two uses of the verb-noun 147
35. 23 The internal structure of VNP projections 154
36. 24 Aspectual properties of Welsh verb-nouns 167
37. 25 Conclusion 169
38. VI The syntax of Welsh verbo-nominal clauses
39. Introduction 173
40. 26 i-initial verbo-nominal clauses 175
41. 27 Bod-initial constructions 196
42. 28 Labeling Welsh VN-clauses 210
43. 29 The tense of VN-clauses 213
44. 30 Conclusion 218
45. VII Verbo-nominal root clauses in Middle Welsh
46. Introduction 221
47. 31 Some remarkable data 223
48. 32 A short excursus on unergative VNs 227
49. 33 Against the nominal analysis 229
50. 34 The ergativity of verbo-nominal root and embedded clauses 234
51. 35 Making the ergative analysis explicit 238
52. 36 Coexistence of ergative-absolutive and nominative-accusative patterns 244
53. 37 The interpretation of tense 249
54. 38 Conclusion 251
55. 39 Appendix: Proposals for the analysis of ergative structures 252
56. VIII The syntax of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese
57. 40 Introduction 259
58. 41 Three asymmetries 265
59. 42 The non-existence of an auxiliary/main verb asymmetry 269
60. 43 The case licensing of IIC subjects 283
61. 44 The eventive/stative divide 286
62. 45 The factive/nonfactive asymmetry and the categorial identity of IICs 294
63. 46 Labeling IICs 301
64. 47 Inflected/uninflected infinitive clauses with a null subject 307
65. 48 Conclusion 313
66. 49 Appendix: Verb classes in European Portuguese 314
67. IX Extraposition phenomena
68. Introduction 319
69. 50 The extraposition of embedded finite clauses 323
70. 51 Why Welsh VN-clauses obligatorily extrapose, why Welsh VN-phrases cannot 331
71. 52 A principled approach to extraposition 343
72. 53 Why gerund clauses don’t extrapose 346
73. 54 Why Portuguese inflected infinitive structures sometimes extrapose, sometimes don’t 351
74. 55 Conclusion 356
75. X The Latin ab urbe condita construction
76. Introduction 361
77. 56 Domain of study 363
78. 57 Basic syntactic and semantic properties of the DPC 368
79. 58 The analysis of passive past participles: A few landmarks 374
80. 59 DPCs as mixed projections 383
81. 60 Agreement and case in DPCs 392
82. 61 The origin of linguistic variation 401
83. 62 Conclusion 404
84. XI Facts and events, attitudinal objects and states of affairs
85. Introduction 409
86. 63 Do gerund clauses name facts? 411
87. 64 Verbo-nominal clauses 417
88. 65 On attitudinal objects 421
89. 66 Inflected infinitive constructions 424
90. 67 Taking stock 426
91. XII Conclusion: The many faces of defectiveness
92. Introduction 431
93. 68 Semantics 433
94. 69 Morphosyntax 435
95. 70 Syntax 437
96. 71 On defectiveness 442
97. References 445
98. Index 463