The Syntax of Tenselessness: Tense/Mood/Aspect-agreeing Infinitivals by Anna-Len

Description: The Syntax of Tenselessness by Anna-Lena Wiklund Serves as an investigation of verb-verb agreement phenomena in Swedish, including pseudocoordinations of the form John started and wrote John started writing and double participles of the form John had been-able written John had been able to write. This book is a contribution to the syntax of infinitivals and agreement in natural language. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Tense/Mood/Aspect-agreeing Infinitivals is an in-depth investigation of the syntax of verb-verb agreement phenomena in Swedish, including pseudocoordinations of the form John started and wrote John started writing and double participles of the form John had been-able written John had been able to write. Providing evidence from facts concerning extraction, locality, selection, and interpretation, the book argues that the relevant construction types all involve surface variants of "infinitives in disguise"; infinitivals that agree with the matrix clause in tense/mood/aspect. Arguments are presented in favour of taking the dependencies underlying the agreement to be instances of Agree between functional heads of the same label, a configuration that yields restructuring/clause-union. The main theoretical contributions of the book are two: (i) Agreement is proportional to functional structure: The possibility of "copying" a particular morphosyntactic form is contingent on the presence of the corresponding functional projection in the agreeing XP. (ii) Size constancy between restructuring/non-restructuring infinitivals: The category selected by a verb may remain constant between restructuring and non-restructuring configurations. It is suggested that an important aspect of restructuring may be alternation between unmarked (negatively specified) features and unvalued varieties of the same features, capturing properties such as "tenselessness", "finitelessness", etc. of restructuring infinitivals. The book is an important contribution to the syntax of infinitival clauses, the syntax of clause-union/restructuring, and more generally to the syntax of agreement phenomena in natural language. In addition, it provides a general reference source for anyone interested in the syntax of Swedish and other Scandinavian languages. Flap Tense/Mood/Aspect-agreeing Infinitivals is an in-depth investigation of verb-verb agreement phenomena in Swedish, including pseudocoordinations of the form John started and wrote John started writing and double participles of the form John had been-able written John had been able to write. The book presents two main claims: (i) The relevant construction types all involve "disguised infinitives" - infinitival clauses that agree with the matrix in tense/mood/aspect; (ii) The relevant verb-verb agreement is a surface reflex of Agree between functional heads of the same label, where the embedded head is underspecified with regard to feature value. The result is a restructuring configuration. Evidence in favour of these claims come from facts concerning extraction, selection, locality, interpretation, and licensing of adverbs. If the analysis proposed is correct, restructuring does not depend on the size of the complment, nor on a functional status of the matrix verb, but on the establishment of dependencies between the matrix and embedded clause. Data show that full restructuring is possible, even if the size of the complement is large. The book is an important contribution to the syntax of infinitivals, restructuring, and agreement in natural language. Author Biography Anna-Lena Wiklund, University of TromsØ, Norway. Review "The book is an invaluable resource for syntacticians, especially those interested in working on Swedish, Scandinavian languages, and Germanic syntax in general. The breakdown of the data is very clear, making the book convenient to navigate through."Cynthia L. Zocca in: html Long Description Tense/Mood/Aspect-agreeing Infinitivals is an in-depth investigation of the syntax of verb-verb agreement phenomena in Swedish, including pseudocoordinations of the form John started and wrote John started writing and double participles of the form John had been-able written John had been able to write. Providing evidence from facts concerning extraction, locality, selection, and interpretation, the book argues that the relevant construction types all involve surface variants of "infinitives in disguise"; infinitivals that agree with the matrix clause in tense/mood/aspect. Arguments are presented in favour of taking the dependencies underlying the agreement to be instances of Agree between functional heads of the same label, a configuration that yields restructuring/clause-union. The main theoretical contributions of the book are two: (i) Agreement is proportional to functional structure: The possibility of "copying" a particular morphosyntactic form is contingent on the presence of the corresponding functional projection in the agreeing XP. (ii) Size constancy between restructuring/non-restructuring infinitivals: The category selected by a verb may remain constant between restructuring and non-restructuring configurations. It is suggested that an important aspect of restructuring may be alternation between unmarked (negatively specified) features and unvalued varieties of the same features, capturing properties such as "tenselessness", "finitelessness", etc. of restructuring infinitivals. The book is an important contribution to the syntax of infinitival clauses, the syntax of clause-union/restructuring, and more generally to the syntax of agreement phenomena in natural language. In addition, it provides a general reference source for anyone interested in the syntax of Swedish and other Scandinavian languages. Review Text "The book is an invaluable resource for syntacticians, especially those interested in working on Swedish, Scandinavian languages, and Germanic syntax in general. The breakdown of the data is very clear, making the book convenient to navigate through." Cynthia L. Zocca in: html Details ISBN3110190435 Author Anna-Lena Wiklund Language English ISBN-10 3110190435 ISBN-13 9783110190434 Media Book Format Hardcover Series Number 92 Short Title SYNTAX OF TENSELESSNESS Audience Age 22-22 Pages 238 Place of Publication Berlin Country of Publication Germany Imprint De Gruyter Mouton Illustrations 15 Tables, black and white DOI 10.1604/9783110190434 UK Release Date 2007-02-19 Subtitle Tense/Mood/Aspect-agreeing Infinitivals Publisher De Gruyter Series Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] Year 2007 Publication Date 2007-02-19 Alternative 9783110197839 DEWEY 415 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126867362;

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