The Syntax of Meaning and the Meaning of Syntax

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Preface
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Third Factor “Relevance” between Semantics, Pragmatics, and Syntax
• 1.1 The Two Types of Meaning
• 1.1.1 Proposition, Truth Values, and “Meaning”
• 1.1.2 Russel’s Definite Descriptions
• 1.2 Alternative Analyses
• 1.2.1 Generalized Quantifier Analysis
• 1.2.2 Fregean Analysis
• 1.2.3 Mathematical Logic
• 1.3 About “Meaning” and Illocution
• 1.4 How Do Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics Interact?
• 1.5 The Acquisition of Meaning
• 1.6 Ambiguity and the Quantum Mind
• 1.7 Conclusion
• 2 The Language of Thought Hypothesis, Classes, and Relations
• 2.1 General Remarks
• 2.2 Crash-Proof Grammars and Crash-Proof Syntax Theory
• 2.3 On Thought and Language
• 2.3.1 Philosophers on Universals: Realists
• 2.3.2 Reference and Meaning in Standard Philosophy
• 2.4 William of Ockham and Ockham’s Razor
• 2.5 Classes and Relations Are Determined by Biological Needs and Endowment: Eric Lenneberg on Language and Arithmetics
• 2.5.1 Small Number of Basic Lexical Categories
• 2.5.2 Categorization and the Function of Labels at the Interfaces as Interpretative Tools for Narrow Syntax
• 2.6 Division of Labor: I-grammars and a Theory of Meaning (Mental Lexicon)
• 2.6.1 Small Number of Axioms of the Model of I-Grammar
• 2.6.2 The Architecture of Mental Grammar: The Computing Mind
• 2.6.2.1 The Puzzle: Derivation and Time
• 2.6.2.2 Economy and Derivation
• 2.6.2.4 Raising, Lowering vs. Merge and Late Insertion: Don’t Move!
• 2.7 Some Further Evidence: Interfaces Driven Syntax and/or Late Insertion
• 2.7.1 Shortness of Evidence and Earliness Principle
• 2.7.2 Small Amount of Logical Constants: Feature Inheritance vs. Feature Sharing
• 3 Gender and Animacy between Displacement and Agreement
• 3.1 Words, Phrases, and Sentences
• 3.2 Crash-Proof and Crash-Rife Grammars
• 3.3 Phase Impenetrability and Phase Interpretability
• 3.3.1 Gender and Animacy Declension and Agreement Classes
• 3.3.2 The Structure of Noun Phrase or Determiner Phrase in Slavic
• 3.3.3 Pronominalization
• 3.3.4 Numerals and Animacy
• 3.4 Mixed Gender Agreement in Russian DPs
• 3.4.1 Gender
• 3.4.2 Gender Assignment Systems
• 3.4.3 Gender Agreement
• 3.5 Theoretical Background on DP-Internal Agreement
• 3.5.1 DP Structure
• 3.5.2 Location of Gender in the Nominal Phrase
• 3.5.3 Interpretability of Gender
• 3.5.4 Agree and Feature Sharing
• 3.6 Mixed Agreement
• 3.6.1 Hybrid Nouns
• 3.6.2 Proposals That Distinguish Concord and Predicate Agreement
• 3.6.3 Concord vs. Index Agreement (Wechsler and Zlatić 2000, 2003)
• 3.6.4 Multiple Levels of φ-Feature Interpretation (Sauerland 2004)
• 3.6.5 Assignment Strategies between Semantics, Morphology and Syntax in Slavic
• 3.7 Further Perspectives of Research and Exploration of Gender and Animacy
• 4 Adjectival and Argumental Small Clauses vs. Free Adverbial Adjuncts – A Phase-Based Approach within the Radical Minimalism with Special Criticism of the Agree, Case and Valuation Notions
• 4.1 On Definition of Secondary Predicates and Small Clauses: The Puzzle
• 4.2 The Framework: Radical Minimalism
• 4.2.1 The Architecture of the System
• 4.2.2 Nom Agree Case and Instr Case in Russian Secondary Predicates
• 4.2.3 Argument-Small Clauses: Subjects of Causatives (on SC and pro, PRO)
• 4.2.4 PredP (Bowers 1993, Bailyn and Citko 1999)
• 4.2.5 Against a Valuation Feature–Based and in Favor of a PHASE-Based Approach
• 4.2.6 Expletive pro in Small Clauses: An Incorporationist Perspective
• 4.3 Further Perspectives of Research on Predicative Instrumental vs. Nominative
• 5 Case and Agree in Slavic Numerals – Valuation of Features at the Interfaces within a Phase-Based Model
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.1.1 A Short Overview of the Puzzle
• 5.1.2 Higher Numerals in Russian
• 5.2 Three Types of Cardinal Numerals in Polish
• 5.2.1 The Classification of Pawel Rutkowski
• 5.2.2 The Accusative Hypothesis for Higher Numerals 5< by Miechowicz-Mathiassen
• 5.3 Agree and Valuation in Russian in a Phase-Based Model
• 5.3.1 Interim Conclusion
• 5.3.2 Animacy and Maculine Personal Gender (Hence Virile V) in Numerals
• 5.3.3 Classification of Numerals in Polish (PL) and SCB and Animacy (V vs. NV)
• 5.3.4 Lower Numerals in Russian (Paucals)
• 5.4 Summary
• 6 On Phases, Escaping Islands, and Theory of Movement (Displacement)
• 6.1 Wh-Movement
• 6.2 Freezing Effects and Generalizations
• 6.3 Improper Movement Revisited
• 6.4 Object Shift
• 6.5 Clitic Doubling in Bulgarian and English Resumptive Pronouns
• 6.6 Scrambling and Clitic Left-Cleft Dislocation in Czech DP? The Case of ten, ta, to a DET-CL-Hypothesis
• 6.6.1 Scrambling and Islands: In Czech and Elsewhere
• 6.6.2 Scrambling in Complex NPs and Escaping Islands
• 6.7 Summary
• 7 On the Causative/anti-Causative Alternation as Principle of Affix Ordering in the Light of the Mirror Principle, the Lexical Integrity Principle and the Distributed Morphology
• 7.1 Mirror Principle and Functional Hierarchies
• 7.1.1 Preliminary Observations and Comments
• 7.1.2 Affix Ordering in Morpho-Syntax and Semantic Classes
• 7.1.3 Higher Subjects: Benefactive or Experience Dative Subjects in Impersonals vs. Anti-causatives
• 7.2 On Merge, Mirrors and, Syntactic Derivation of Causatives and Anti-causatives
• 7.2.1 Recent Approaches on Derivation of Grammatical Categories: Theta Hierarchy and Argument Structure Hierarchy
• 7.2.2 Nominals and Passives
• 7.2.3 The Derivation of Adjectival Passives
• 7.2.4 Three Levels of Representation: a-Structure, Thematic Structure, and Event Semantics
• 7.2.5 Putting the Pieces Together
• 7.3 Conclusion
• 8 Radical Minimalist Hypothesis and Early Grammars
• 8.1 Basic Notions and Assumptions on Phase-Theory And Minimalism
• 8.2 Some Further Important Notions on Phase Theory
• 8.3 Merge and Features
• 8.4 Proposal: Radical Minimalist Hypothesis and Early Grammars
• 8.4.1 The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition and RMH
• 8.4.2 Word Order in Children’s Language
• 8.5 Adult Grammar Derivations
• Bibliography
• Index
• Series index