Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of Language

• Main Author: Rezac, Milan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 81
• Subjects: 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 researc...

Table of Contents:

• 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.