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There’s that: unifying existential and list readings

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Organizing Grammar
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Chapters in this book

  1. i-vi i
  2. Table of Contents vii
  3. List of contributors xiii
  4. Hi Morris, this is Henk! xvii
  5. An intersubjective note on the notion of ‘subjectification’ 1
  6. A note on non-canonical passives: the case of the get-passive 13
  7. Displaced and misplaced genitives 22
  8. Preposition stranding and locative adverbs in German 31
  9. Moving verbal complexes in Spanish 43
  10. Unbearably light verbs versus finite auxiliary drop 53
  11. Extraction from subjects: some remarks on Chomsky’s On phases 59
  12. A Chinese relative 69
  13. Approximative of zo as a diagnostic tool 77
  14. A note on interpretable features and idiosyncratic categorial selection 87
  15. Transparent, free... and polarised: the (poli)tics of polarity in transparent free relatives 97
  16. The inverse agreement constraint in Hungarian: a relic of a Uralic-Siberian Sprachbund? 108
  17. Syntactic conditions on phonetically empty morphemes 116
  18. Long-distance reciprocals 127
  19. The notion of topic and the problem of quantification in Hungarian 137
  20. Questions of complexity 146
  21. Functional heads, lexical heads and hybrid categories 152
  22. Concatenation and interpretation 162
  23. As time goes by: a digressive discourse 171
  24. There’s that: unifying existential and list readings 186
  25. Extended projections - extended analogues: a note on Hungarian PPs 197
  26. Against the sonority scale: evidence from Frankish tones 206
  27. Classifiers, agreement and honorifics in Japanese 222
  28. What stranded adjectives reveal about Split-NP Topicalization 230
  29. Past tense interpretations in Dutch 241
  30. Why phonology is the same 252
  31. Recursively linked Case-Agreement: from accidents to principles and beyond 263
  32. Enfoldment as Economy 275
  33. “GP, I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground” 283
  34. On parameters and on principles of pronunciation 289
  35. What to do with those fools of a crew? 300
  36. Why indefinite pronouns are different 310
  37. Seeing the forest despite the tree 319
  38. When to pied-pipe and when to strand in San Dionicio Octotepec Zapotec 331
  39. Free relatives as light-headed relatives in Turkish 340
  40. Is linguistics a natural science? 350
  41. Two asymmetries between Clitic Left and Clitic Right Dislocation in Bulgarian 359
  42. On dative subjects in Russian 365
  43. On the nature of case in Basque: structural or inherent? 374
  44. Examining the scope of Principles-and-Parameters Theory 383
  45. Clitics and adjacency in Greek PPs 390
  46. A minimalist program for parametric linguistics? 407
  47. A syntactic approach to negated focus questions in Bulgarian 415
  48. The case of midpositions 424
  49. Quechua P-soup 434
  50. Semantic compositionality of the way-construction 439
  51. Soft mutation at the interface 447
  52. Abracadabra, the relation between stress and rhythm 458
  53. What do we learn when we acquire a language? 466
  54. A prosodic contrast between Northern and Southern Dutch: a result of a Flemish-French sprachbund 474
  55. The object of verbs like help and an apparent violation of UTAH 483
  56. A note on relative pronouns in Standard German 495
  57. Agreeing to bind 505
  58. Positive polarity and evaluation 514
  59. Phase theory and the privilege of the root 529
  60. On the role of parameters in Universal Grammar: a reply to Newmeyer 538
  61. Welsh VP-ellipsis and the representation of aspect 554
  62. A new perspective on event participants in psychological states and events 563
  63. A glimpse of doubly-filled COMPS in Swiss German 572
  64. Missing prepositions in Dutch free relatives 582
  65. Final sonorant devoicing in early Yokuts field-records 592
  66. Cyclic NP structure and trace interpretation 599
  67. Appositive and parenthetical relative clauses 608
  68. Overt infinitival subjects (if that's what they are) 618
  69. Wanna and the prepositional complementizers of English 625
  70. A note on asymmetric coordination and subject gaps 633
  71. The representation of focus and its implications: towards an alternative account of some 'intervention effects' 641
  72. Circumstantial evidence for Dative Shift 661
  73. Why should diminutives count? 669
  74. Adjacency, PF, and extraposition 679
  75. A note on functional adpositions 689
  76. Bibliography of Henk C. van Riemsdijk 696
  77. Index 707
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892994.186

Chapters in this book

  1. i-vi i
  2. Table of Contents vii
  3. List of contributors xiii
  4. Hi Morris, this is Henk! xvii
  5. An intersubjective note on the notion of ‘subjectification’ 1
  6. A note on non-canonical passives: the case of the get-passive 13
  7. Displaced and misplaced genitives 22
  8. Preposition stranding and locative adverbs in German 31
  9. Moving verbal complexes in Spanish 43
  10. Unbearably light verbs versus finite auxiliary drop 53
  11. Extraction from subjects: some remarks on Chomsky’s On phases 59
  12. A Chinese relative 69
  13. Approximative of zo as a diagnostic tool 77
  14. A note on interpretable features and idiosyncratic categorial selection 87
  15. Transparent, free... and polarised: the (poli)tics of polarity in transparent free relatives 97
  16. The inverse agreement constraint in Hungarian: a relic of a Uralic-Siberian Sprachbund? 108
  17. Syntactic conditions on phonetically empty morphemes 116
  18. Long-distance reciprocals 127
  19. The notion of topic and the problem of quantification in Hungarian 137
  20. Questions of complexity 146
  21. Functional heads, lexical heads and hybrid categories 152
  22. Concatenation and interpretation 162
  23. As time goes by: a digressive discourse 171
  24. There’s that: unifying existential and list readings 186
  25. Extended projections - extended analogues: a note on Hungarian PPs 197
  26. Against the sonority scale: evidence from Frankish tones 206
  27. Classifiers, agreement and honorifics in Japanese 222
  28. What stranded adjectives reveal about Split-NP Topicalization 230
  29. Past tense interpretations in Dutch 241
  30. Why phonology is the same 252
  31. Recursively linked Case-Agreement: from accidents to principles and beyond 263
  32. Enfoldment as Economy 275
  33. “GP, I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground” 283
  34. On parameters and on principles of pronunciation 289
  35. What to do with those fools of a crew? 300
  36. Why indefinite pronouns are different 310
  37. Seeing the forest despite the tree 319
  38. When to pied-pipe and when to strand in San Dionicio Octotepec Zapotec 331
  39. Free relatives as light-headed relatives in Turkish 340
  40. Is linguistics a natural science? 350
  41. Two asymmetries between Clitic Left and Clitic Right Dislocation in Bulgarian 359
  42. On dative subjects in Russian 365
  43. On the nature of case in Basque: structural or inherent? 374
  44. Examining the scope of Principles-and-Parameters Theory 383
  45. Clitics and adjacency in Greek PPs 390
  46. A minimalist program for parametric linguistics? 407
  47. A syntactic approach to negated focus questions in Bulgarian 415
  48. The case of midpositions 424
  49. Quechua P-soup 434
  50. Semantic compositionality of the way-construction 439
  51. Soft mutation at the interface 447
  52. Abracadabra, the relation between stress and rhythm 458
  53. What do we learn when we acquire a language? 466
  54. A prosodic contrast between Northern and Southern Dutch: a result of a Flemish-French sprachbund 474
  55. The object of verbs like help and an apparent violation of UTAH 483
  56. A note on relative pronouns in Standard German 495
  57. Agreeing to bind 505
  58. Positive polarity and evaluation 514
  59. Phase theory and the privilege of the root 529
  60. On the role of parameters in Universal Grammar: a reply to Newmeyer 538
  61. Welsh VP-ellipsis and the representation of aspect 554
  62. A new perspective on event participants in psychological states and events 563
  63. A glimpse of doubly-filled COMPS in Swiss German 572
  64. Missing prepositions in Dutch free relatives 582
  65. Final sonorant devoicing in early Yokuts field-records 592
  66. Cyclic NP structure and trace interpretation 599
  67. Appositive and parenthetical relative clauses 608
  68. Overt infinitival subjects (if that's what they are) 618
  69. Wanna and the prepositional complementizers of English 625
  70. A note on asymmetric coordination and subject gaps 633
  71. The representation of focus and its implications: towards an alternative account of some 'intervention effects' 641
  72. Circumstantial evidence for Dative Shift 661
  73. Why should diminutives count? 669
  74. Adjacency, PF, and extraposition 679
  75. A note on functional adpositions 689
  76. Bibliography of Henk C. van Riemsdijk 696
  77. Index 707
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