For instance, kayne 1994 proposes that the property of antisymmetry that a linear ordering has is inherited, as a result of his linear correspondence axiom, integral minimalism 7 by the hierarchical structure. The linear correspondence axiom, the centerpiece of kaynes theory. An appendix presents the essentials of a unified theory of copular sentences, which plays a central role in the argument and has several important consequences for syntax, for example, for expletives and locality. Download pdf the minimalist program free online new. Pdf microparametric syntax and minimalist syntax r. The space tapes by centric81, released 07 august 2017 1. There are some exceptions to this, including demonstrative enclitics and the socalled definitive accent churchward 1953, which appears to be a stressshift.
In this article i would like to revisit one aspect of the structure of the functional sequence of the clause in light of certain recent developments, in particular kaynes 2016 proposal that all heads are necessarily silent. Edited by two leading experts on the languages of west africa, this volume is the very first book to handle a range of topics in the syntax of kwa, a branch of the nigercongo language family spoken by approximately 20 million people in cote divoire, ghana, togo. A cartographic analysis of the syntactic structure of. Given the notions of scope put forward, it is possible to discern two conditions on the syntactic distribution of npis. Hubbard philip 1985 the syntax of the albanian verb. Pdf on jan 1, 2003, yoshiki ogawa and others published microparametric syntax and. Kayne formulates the basic statement of his theory, the. Scope is defined in a dependency grammar dg theory of syntax in terms of scope domains. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Notes on the antisymmetry of syntax abstract in what proved to be probably the most influential principlesandparameters manuscript of the last year, kayne 1993 has proposed 1 a linear correspondence axiom which together with a particular definition of asymmetric ccommand is supposed to allow only svo and ovs as underlying word orders. Kayne, professor of linguistics richard s kayne, richard s kayne. Then the commutator of both is a, b ab ba in case of ab we have a, a aa aa 0 there is no such thing as a symmetric part in an operator. Although it is both transitive and antisymmetric, the dominance relation. Kayne, richard s 1994, the antisymmetry of syntax, mit press, cambridge, massachusetts.
The antisymmetry of syntax linguistic inquiry monographs pdf. In this paper we show that an antisymmetry approach to the righthand head rule eventually is to be preferred on empirical grounds, because it. Therefore, antisymmetry means exclusive antisymmetry. Syntaxphonology mapping and the tongan dp pdf paperity. Cam bridge uni versi ty press, 345368 k oster, jan. Comment on antisymmetry of operators assume a and b being two operators. However, if we assume along with kayne 1994 and chomsky 1994, 1995 that specifierheadcomplement is the basic word order, and the projection of the light verb is the one that checks the case of the direct object, as adopted here, ob in amharic must move overtly to spec vp and has to adjoin structurally lower to the base position of su. An influential proposal at the end of the gbppt era is antisymmetry theory kayne 1994. Vowel length as evidence for a distinction between free. The remaining chapters take up construction types which would seem to.
Recent research on the syntax of arabic has produced valuable literature on the major syntactic phenomena found in the language. In the past three decades the space syntax method, developed by bill hillier and his colleagues at the university college london, have been applied to urban studies. Dec 21, 2015 apparently, the phonetic realization of two heads sharing the same complement suggests that the phrase may be ternarybranching rather than binary branching, which has been a mainstream assumption in generative grammar, particularly with reference to the antisymmetry thesis proposed by kayne 1994, 2004, 2005, 2009 18. Introduction a fact about language, both spoken and signed, is that it must interface with the articulatory. Antisymmetry is a theory of syntactic linearization presented in richard kaynes 1994 monograph the antisymmetry of syntax. Antisymmetry is a theory of syntactic linearization presented in richard kayne s 1994 monograph the antisymmetry of syntax. The antisymmetry proposal of kayne 1994 took the linear correspondence axiom lca to see subwordlevel structure as well as phrasal structure. This book is a compilation of articles on different aspects of spanish grammar in the areas of current theoretical syntax and semantics. An interdisciplinary reader in philosophy, linguistics and psychology. By introducing the eventdecomposition method proposed by ramchand 2008, it argues that the baconstruction conveys the causativity and the resultativity of the event at the same time, which can be shown from the syntactic representation. This paper analyzes the syntactic properties of the baconstruction or disposal form in mandarin chinese under new theoretical frameworks. Metrics details download to read the full article text. These constructions are then tested against current paradigms of the syntax of codeswitching and more general syntactic theories of phrase structure e. The issue brings together scholars working on some formal aspects of spanish predicative complementation e.
The antisymmetry of syntax kayne 1994 takes a close look at the x. This paper proposes a restatement of the leftness condition on quantifier binding in configurational terms in the framework of kayne s 1994 antisymmetry theory. Several articles relate issues raised in chomskys first two minimalist papers to the basic ideas in kaynes book, the antisymmetry of syntax 1994, distributed in part in manuscript form in 1993. Samoan predicate initial word order and object positions. In this book, barbara citko sets out to tackle these questions and offers a unified approach to a number of phenomena that have so far been studied only in isolation. The book is selfcontained, with a synopsis of current theories of movement and a synthetic presentation of the theory of antisymmetry.
In recent years several new majoron models were invented to avoid shortcomings of the classical models while leading to observable decay rates in double beta. Kaynes conjecture kayne 1994 that hierarchical asymmetry universally corresponds to linear temporal precedence is not straightforwardly supported by the phenomena of turkish, a wellstudied. This method consists of calculating configurative spatial relationships in built environments. Oct 10, 2017 in this article i would like to revisit one aspect of the structure of the functional sequence of the clause in light of certain recent developments, in particular kaynes 2016 proposal that all heads are necessarily silent. Recos research group, universities of cambridge and newcastle. This guide to arabic syntax provides an overview of the major syntactic constructions in arabic that have featured in recent linguistic debates, and discusses the analyses provided for them in the literature.
Kayne, richard 1994 the antisymmetry of syntax, mit press, cambridge. In urban analyses, according to hillier, space syntax is four things. This content was uploaded by our users and we assume good faith they have the permission to share this book. Antisymmetry and dynamic antisymmetry antisymmetry and dynamic antisymmetry barrie, michael 20120101 00. Minimal restrictions on basque movements springerlink. Portmanteau constructions, phrase structure, and linearization. Hubbard philip 1985 the syntax of the albanian verb complex.
Scope domains toward a dependency grammar account of the. The english literary society of japan produced and listed by. Research syntax phonology mapping and the tongan dp author. In linguistics, antisymmetry is a theory of syntactic linearization presented in richard kayne s 1994 monograph the antisymmetry of syntax. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Barrie, dynamic antisymmetry and the syntax of noun incorporation, studies in natural language and linguistic theory 84, doi 10. The antisymmetry of syntax volume 25 of linguistic inquiry monographs, issn 10497501 volume 25 of monographs, linguistic inquiry. To understand what is meant by hierarchical structure, consider the sentence, the king of. Dynamic antisymmetry and the syntax of noun incorporation. Things we expect to see arent there, and now we have to explain why. The antisymmetry of syntax proposes a restrictive theory of word for example, english and japanese phrases consisting of a verb and its complement are thought of as symmetrical to one another, differing only in linear order. Antisymmetry and japanese english linguistics, syntax has no tools that can be used to analyze linear asymmetries see. For one thing, he argues that it provides too many degrees of freedom. Kenneth hale and samuel jay keyser 53110 cambridge.
The antisymmetry of syntax proposes a restrictive theory of word order and phrase structure that denies this assumption. X close abstract tongan, a polynesian language, is almost entirely headinitial. Kayne proposed to remove observed linear order as a grammatical primitive and to treat it as dependent on configuration. Kayne new york university may, 2017 revised version 1. This paper provides a syntactic analysis of noun phrase movement in raising predicates in kimuthambi. Notes on the antisymmetry of syntax scholarlycommons. Does symmetry in syntax exist, and if it does, how do we account for it. Download pdf the minimalist program free online new books. A new account based on syntax and processing will then be forwarded, followed by a discussion of some residual issues and the conclusions. If you do not see its contents the file may be temporarily unavailable at the journal website or you do not have a pdf plugin installed and enabled in your browser. Antisymmetry in mgg, from ss onward, linear order is represented explicitly in the psrs. A cartographic analysis of the syntactic structure of mandarin ba. According to this theory, phrase structure always completely determines linear order, so that if two phrases differ in linear order, they must also differ in hierarchical structure. For vso languages, this analysis requires that the object raise out of the vp to a position below the subject before the remnant vp fronts to the higher position.
The crux of this theory is that hierarchical structure in natural language maps universally onto a particular surface linearization, namely specifierheadcomplement branching order. Dynamic antisymmetry will be presented in two steps. Current formal aspects of spanish syntax and semantics. As kayne 1994 has shown, the theory of antisymmetry of syntax also provides an explanation of a structural property of morphological complexes, the righthand head rule. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page.
This is against what kayne 1994 and bianchi 1999 note about the typology of relative clauses. The syntax and phonology of czech templatic morphology. From this argument therefore, lipps analysis is not accurate to analyze kimbeere relative clauses since kiswahili and kimbeere have a lot in. Rohrbacher, bernhard, notes on the antisymmetry of syntax 1994. This paper proposes a restatement of the leftness condition on quantifier binding in configurational terms in the framework of kaynes 1994 antisymmetry theory. I will also discuss the possibility that certain silent heads may be endowed with single features that denote complex notions taking progressive aspect as a case in. Against such a view, kayne 1994 proposes that clrd is the covert.
In the lexicon in the organization of language, ed. Jan 01, 2012 antisymmetry and dynamic antisymmetry antisymmetry and dynamic antisymmetry barrie, michael 20120101 00. Verbinitial ordering may be derived by fronting the vp or a larger constituent to a specifier position higher than the subject. He claims that this yields a derivation of the essen tials of xbar theory, in particular asymmetric ccommand. This theory recognizes that there is always a trigger movement which is the need to check features at an appropriate landing site. In fact, similar considerations concerning heads have been put forth by chomsky 1995 that will fall under the general theory of dynamic antisymmetry, if it. On the status of functional categories heads and phrases. Review of kayne 1994 the antisymmetry of syntax date. This quote also serves to highlight the particular grammatical or theoretical issue that is primarily discussed in the relevant article. Reviewed by milena slavcheva, bulgarian academy of sciences the monograph consists of ten chapters grouped in four parts.
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