Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of Language

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Rezac, Milan (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Σειρά: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 81
• Θέματα: Linguistics.; Syntax.; Linguistics, general.

 This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of "uninterpretable" phi-features: person, number, gender, and Case. It provides new tools and evidence for the modular architecture of the human language faculty, a foundational topic of linguistic research. At the same time it develops a new theory for one of the core issues posed by the Minimalist Program: the relationship of syntax to its interfaces and the nature of uninterpretable features. The work sets out to establish a new cross-linguistic phenomenon to study the foregoing, person-governed last-resort repairs, which provides new insights into the nature of ergative/accusative Case and of Case licensing itself. This is the first monograph that explicitly addresses the syntactic vs. morphological status of uninterpretable phi-features and their relationship to interface systems in a similar way, drawing on person-based interactions among arguments as key data-base. 

 Acknowledgments -- Conventions and glosses -- Preface -- 1 Modularity, phi-features, and repairs -- 2 Phi-features in realizational morphology -- 3 Person Hierarchy interactions in syntax -- 4 Person Case Constraint repairs in French -- 5 Repairs and uninterpretable features -- 6 Phi in syntax and phi interpretation -- Name and Subject index.