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Wallenberg, Joel C.

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Antisymmetry and the conservation of C-Command: Scrambling and phrase structure in synchronic and diachronic perspective.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Antisymmetry and the conservation of C-Command: Scrambling and phrase structure in synchronic and diachronic perspective./
作者:	Wallenberg, Joel C.
面頁冊數:	319 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-04, Section: A, page: 1285.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-04A.
標題:	Linguistics. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3405419
ISBN:	9781109710595

Antisymmetry and the conservation of C-Command: Scrambling and phrase structure in synchronic and diachronic perspective.
Wallenberg, Joel C.

Antisymmetry and the conservation of C-Command: Scrambling and phrase structure in synchronic and diachronic perspective. - 319 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-04, Section: A, page: 1285.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2009.

Holmberg's Generalization (Holmberg 1986) was originally stated to describe the "object shift" phenomena found in the modern Scandinavian languages. This dissertation argues that object shift is merely a subcase of scrambling, a type of adjunction, and that Holmberg's Generalization is a subcase of a universal constraint, the "Generalized Holmberg Constraint" (GHC), which prohibits leftward scrambling across c-commanding functional heads. The existence of such a constraint turns out to have ramifications far beyond the analysis of scrambling itself, and the predictions it makes ultimately form an extended argument in favor of a universal antisymmetric approach to phrase structure (Kayne 1994).

ISBN: 9781109710595Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

Antisymmetry and the conservation of C-Command: Scrambling and phrase structure in synchronic and diachronic perspective.
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520 $a The most important evidence for the GHC comes from diachronic data. The study presents quantitative data from the history of Yiddish and English to show that, in cases where a language undergoes major changes in its clause structure, the GHC remains an active and stable constraint in the language, indicating its status as a universal. Once a phrase structure change begins, the resulting variation within a single speech community, and even within individuals, immediately shows the effect of the GHC on scrambling.
520 $a The latter portion of the study argues that the GHC is not merely a constraint on scrambling, but rather a much more general constraint on the way syntactic computations progress, the "Conservation of C-Command." The Conservation of C-Command finds a natural cross-linguistic formulation only if we adopt an antisymmetric approach to languages with head-final phrase structures. This approach turns out to have consequences for a variety of other problems of syntactic analysis, including the West Germanic Verb (Projection) Raising construction and Heavy NP Shift.
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