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Symmetry Breaking and Symmetry Restoration
Evidence from English Syntax of Coordination
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Szymon J. Napierała
This book treats the faculty of language as part of the Universe subject to physical laws. It presents phenomena from syntax and semantics in the interdisciplinary context. The author analyses the origin of syntax and semantics as autonomous modules (asymmetry), even though they display parallelisms (symmetry). He presents linguistic phenomena in the interdisciplinary context where spontaneous symmetry breaking has a central explanatory role, as it is the case in the physical world.
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- Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2017. 168 pp.
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Symmetry and asymmetry – background
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Definitions
- 1.3 Interdisciplinary background
- 1.3.1 Symmetry in mathematics
- 1.3.2 Symmetry in physics
- 1.4 Linguistic background
- 1.4.1 The third factor of language design and symmetry considerations
- 1.4.2 Selected examples of symmetry and asymmetry in syntax
- 1.4.3 Symmetry sensu stricto and symmetry sensu largo
- 1.5 Areas of symmetry and asymmetry to be examined
- 1.5.1 In syntactic relations
- 1.5.1.1 Merge
- 1.5.1.2 Syntactic categories
- 1.5.1.3 Coordination, subordination and related phenomena
- 1.5.2 In descriptive domains
- 1.5.2.1 Syntax and other modules of grammar
- 1.5.2.2 NS – LF – PF
- Chapter 2: The operation Merge
- 2.1 Background
- 2.2 Merge, Concatenate and Label in the context of symmetry considerations
- 2.3 Merge and the catastrophic theory of the origin of FLN
- 2.3.1 Concatenate
- 2.3.2 Label / Projection
- 2.3.3 Concatenate, Label and the catastrophic emergence of syntax
- 2.3.4 Adjunction – some loose ends
- 2.4 Initial symmetry of Merge and its breaking in Boeckx (2008)
- 2.5 Top-down derivations in Zwart (2009)
- 2.6 Symmetry and asymmetry in the Parallel Merge approach (Citko 2005)
- 2.7 Some empirical and theoretical problems
- 2.7.1 Background
- 2.7.2 Binary Merge – empirical and theoretical counterevidence
- 2.7.2.1 Empirical counterevidence
- 2.7.2.2 Theoretical counterevidence
- 2.7.3 An attempt to overcome the theoretical impasse (Leung 2007)
- 2.7.4 NS – LF – PF symmetry considerations
- 2.8 Alternative solutions
- 2.8.1 Jackendoff’s (2011) Parallel Architecture model
- 2.8.2 Hornstein and Pietroski’s (2009) Basic Operations unifying model
- 2.9 The approach advocated in this book
- 2.9.1 Preliminary issues
- 2.9.2 SSB, symmetry restoration and Merge
- 2.9.3 Psychological reality and Merge-based derivations
- 2.9.4 Summary
- 2.10 Conclusion
- Chapter 3: SSB, symmetry restoration and syntactic categories
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 SSB, Label and syntactic categories
- 3.3 Distinction and parallelism among syntactic categories
- 3.4 Empirical evidence from Boeckx (2008)
- 3.4.1 Commensurability
- 3.4.2 Permutability (interchangeability)
- 3.4.2.1 Projection by movement
- 3.4.2.2 Reprojection (projection in situ)
- 3.4.3 Further arguments for EM/IM symmetry
- 3.4.4 Conclusions: SSB, symmetry restoration, projection by movement and reprojection
- 3.5 Lack of categorial distinctions – selected examples
- 3.5.1 Protolanguage
- 3.5.2 Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language
- 3.5.3 Pirahã
- 3.5.4 Riau Indonesian
- 3.5.5 The foregoing issues and the SSB approach – conclusions
- 3.6 General conclusions about the nature of FL
- 3.7 Controversies and areas for future research
- 3.8 Summary and some further issues
- Chapter 4: Empirical evidence: coordination
- 4.1 Coordination – introduction
- 4.2 Coordination and symmetry restoration
- 4.3 Culicover and Jackendoff’s (1997) “syntactic coordination despite semantic subordination” – evidence
- 4.3.1 Background
- 4.3.2 Binding
- 4.3.3 Islandhood
- 4.3.4 LSand, LS(?)or and remaining issues
- 4.3.5 The clasification of LSand and LS(?) or revisited
- 4.4 Parataxis/adjunction
- 4.5 More general conclusions: autonomy of syntax in light of SSB
- Conclusions
- Appendix – response to some criticism
- References
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Symmetry and asymmetry – background
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Definitions
- 1.3 Interdisciplinary background
- 1.3.1 Symmetry in mathematics
- 1.3.2 Symmetry in physics
- 1.4 Linguistic background
- 1.4.1 The third factor of language design and symmetry considerations
- 1.4.2 Selected examples of symmetry and asymmetry in syntax
- 1.4.3 Symmetry sensu stricto and symmetry sensu largo
- 1.5 Areas of symmetry and asymmetry to be examined
- 1.5.1 In syntactic relations
- 1.5.1.1 Merge
- 1.5.1.2 Syntactic categories
- 1.5.1.3 Coordination, subordination and related phenomena
- 1.5.2 In descriptive domains
- 1.5.2.1 Syntax and other modules of grammar
- 1.5.2.2 NS – LF – PF
- Chapter 2: The operation Merge
- 2.1 Background
- 2.2 Merge, Concatenate and Label in the context of symmetry considerations
- 2.3 Merge and the catastrophic theory of the origin of FLN
- 2.3.1 Concatenate
- 2.3.2 Label / Projection
- 2.3.3 Concatenate, Label and the catastrophic emergence of syntax
- 2.3.4 Adjunction – some loose ends
- 2.4 Initial symmetry of Merge and its breaking in Boeckx (2008)
- 2.5 Top-down derivations in Zwart (2009)
- 2.6 Symmetry and asymmetry in the Parallel Merge approach (Citko 2005)
- 2.7 Some empirical and theoretical problems
- 2.7.1 Background
- 2.7.2 Binary Merge – empirical and theoretical counterevidence
- 2.7.2.1 Empirical counterevidence
- 2.7.2.2 Theoretical counterevidence
- 2.7.3 An attempt to overcome the theoretical impasse (Leung 2007)
- 2.7.4 NS – LF – PF symmetry considerations
- 2.8 Alternative solutions
- 2.8.1 Jackendoff’s (2011) Parallel Architecture model
- 2.8.2 Hornstein and Pietroski’s (2009) Basic Operations unifying model
- 2.9 The approach advocated in this book
- 2.9.1 Preliminary issues
- 2.9.2 SSB, symmetry restoration and Merge
- 2.9.3 Psychological reality and Merge-based derivations
- 2.9.4 Summary
- 2.10 Conclusion
- Chapter 3: SSB, symmetry restoration and syntactic categories
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 SSB, Label and syntactic categories
- 3.3 Distinction and parallelism among syntactic categories
- 3.4 Empirical evidence from Boeckx (2008)
- 3.4.1 Commensurability
- 3.4.2 Permutability (interchangeability)
- 3.4.2.1 Projection by movement
- 3.4.2.2 Reprojection (projection in situ)
- 3.4.3 Further arguments for EM/IM symmetry
- 3.4.4 Conclusions: SSB, symmetry restoration, projection by movement and reprojection
- 3.5 Lack of categorial distinctions – selected examples
- 3.5.1 Protolanguage
- 3.5.2 Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language
- 3.5.3 Pirahã
- 3.5.4 Riau Indonesian
- 3.5.5 The foregoing issues and the SSB approach – conclusions
- 3.6 General conclusions about the nature of FL
- 3.7 Controversies and areas for future research
- 3.8 Summary and some further issues
- Chapter 4: Empirical evidence: coordination
- 4.1 Coordination – introduction
- 4.2 Coordination and symmetry restoration
- 4.3 Culicover and Jackendoff’s (1997) “syntactic coordination despite semantic subordination” – evidence
- 4.3.1 Background
- 4.3.2 Binding
- 4.3.3 Islandhood
- 4.3.4 LSand, LS(?)or and remaining issues
- 4.3.5 The clasification of LSand and LS(?) or revisited
- 4.4 Parataxis/adjunction
- 4.5 More general conclusions: autonomy of syntax in light of SSB
- Conclusions
- Appendix – response to some criticism
- References