Authors: Ayesha Kidwai
ISBN-13: 9780195132519, ISBN-10: 0195132513
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: May 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
One of the most hotly debated phenomena in natural language is that of leftward argument scrambling. This book investigates the properties of Hindi-Urdu scrambling to show that it must be analyzed as uniformly a focality-driven XP-adjunction operation. It proposes a novel theory of binding and coreference that not only derives the coreference effects in scrambled constructions, but has important consequences for the proper formulation of binding, crossover, reconstruction, and representational economy in the minimalist program. The book will be of interest not only to specialists in Hindi-Urdu syntax and/or scrambling, but to all students of generative syntax.
1 | Issues in the Study of Scrambling | 3 |
1.1 | Empirical Issues | 3 |
1.2 | Some Minimalist Background | 9 |
1.3 | Theoretical Issues | 16 |
1.4 | Organization | 19 |
2 | Scrambling: Syntactic Properties | 22 |
2.1 | Scrambling Is Not NP-movement | 24 |
2.2 | Scrambling Is Not WH-movement | 34 |
2.3 | Scrambling Is Not Topicalization | 39 |
2.4 | Scrambling Is Not QR | 50 |
2.5 | Scrambling Is XP-Adjunction | 53 |
3 | The Structure of the UG Clause | 60 |
3.1 | Locating the AGR-oP Projection | 60 |
3.2 | Ditransitives in the Minimalist Program | 67 |
4 | Binding and Coreference in UG | 82 |
4.1 | Principle A and Reflexive Binding | 83 |
4.2 | Principle B and Pronominal Binding | 91 |
4.3 | Binding and Conference in Minimalism | 96 |
5 | Scrambling, Focus, and Specificity | 114 |
5.1 | Scrambling and Positional Focus | 114 |
5.2 | Coreference with Adjoined Positions | 124 |
5.3 | Scrambling and Specificity | 130 |
6 | XP-Adjunction in UG | 138 |
6.1 | XP-Adjunction and Global Economy | 138 |
6.2 | The Economy of Representation | 142 |
6.3 | The Economy of Derivation | 146 |
6.4 | The L-/L-Bar Distinction | 149 |
Notes | 153 | |
Bibliography | 169 | |
Index | 176 |