Scrambling and the Survive Principle (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today)

Languages With Free Word Orders Pose Daunting Challenges To Linguistic Theory Because They Raise Questions About The Nature Of Grammatical Strings. Ross, Who Coined The Term Scrambling To Refer To The Relatively ‘free’ Word Orders Found In Germanic Languages (among Others) Notes That “... The Problems Involved In Specifying Exactly The Subset Of The Strings Which Will Be Generated ... Are Far Too Complicated For Me To Even Mention Here, Let Alone Come To Grips With” (1967:52). This Book Offers A Radical Re-analysis Of Middle Field Scrambling. It Argues That Scrambling Is A Concatenation Effect, As Described In Stroik’s (1999, 2000, 2007) Survive Analysis Of Minimalist Syntax, Driven By An Interpretable Referentiality Feature [ref] To The Middle Field, Where Syntactically Encoded Features For Temporality And Other World Indices Are Checked. The Purpose Of This Book Is To Investigate The Syntactic Properties Of Middle Field Scrambling In Synchronic West Germanic Languages, And To Explore, To What Possible Extent We Can Classify Scrambling As A ‘syntactic Phenomenon’ Within Survive-minimalist Desiderata. Scrambling and the Survive Principle......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6 PREFACE......Page 8 Dedication......Page 10 1. INTRODUCTION......Page 12 1.1 The Minimalist Program......Page 22 1.2 Enter Survive......Page 25 1.3 Survive-Minimalism......Page 36 1.4 Alternative Approaches to Scrambling......Page 39 1.5 Scrambling and the Survive Principle......Page 52 2. PROPERTIES OF SCRAMBLING......Page 57 2.1 Strong vs. Weak Scrambling......Page 58 2.2 Selectional Properties of Verbs......Page 62 2.3 Scrambling is not NP-movement......Page 64 2.4 Scrambling is not wh-movement......Page 79 2.5 Scrambling is not Topicalization......Page 84 2.6 Interim Conclusion......Page 92 2.7 Freezing and Anti-Freezing Effects......Page 93 2.8 Referentiality......Page 95 2.9 Scope Bleeding......Page 97 2.10 Prosody......Page 98 2.11 Potential Triggers......Page 99 2.12 Conclusion......Page 104 3. THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS......Page 106 3.1 Syntactic Featurehood......Page 108 3.2 Prolific Domains and their Potential Role in Survive-minimalism......Page 121 3.3 Eliminating XP-Adjunction......Page 137 3.4 [+ Ref] in English, Pennsylvania German, and German and the Diachronic Loss of Scrambling......Page 147 3.5 Conclusion......Page 153 4. THE PROSODIC SIDE OF SCRAMBLING......Page 156 4.1 Introduction to the Prosody-Syntax Interface......Page 158 4.2 Minimalist View of the Prosody-Syntax Interface......Page 165 4.3 Permuted Word Orders in the Middle Field......Page 175 4.4 The Coherent Infinitive Puzzle......Page 179 4.5 Implications for the Model of the Grammar......Page 186 4.6 Conclusion......Page 199 5. CONCLUSION......Page 200 5.1 [+ Ref] and the Design of the Middle Field......Page 203 5.2 De re/de dicto distinction......Page 204 5.3 A Sketch of Japanese and Russian Scrambling in Survive-Minimalism......Page 207 5.4 Conclusion......Page 210 REFERENCES......Page 212 SUBJECT INDEX......Page 224 The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today......Page 228 Languages with free word orders pose daunting challenges to linguistic theory because they raise questions about the nature of grammatical strings. Ross, who coined the term Scrambling to refer to the relatively free word orders found in Germanic languages (among others) notes that the problems involved in specifying exactly the subset of the strings which will be generated are far too complicated for me to even mention here, let alone come to grips with (1967:52). This book offers a radical re-analysis of middle field Scrambling . It argues that Scrambling is a concatenation effect, as described in Stroiks (1999, 2000, 2007) Survive analysis of minimalist syntax, driven by an interpretable referentiality feature [Ref] to the middle field, where syntactically encoded features for temporality and other world indices are checked. The purpose of this book is to investigate the syntactic properties of middle field Scrambling in synchronic West Germanic languages, and to explore, to what possible extent we can classify Scrambling as a syntactic phenomenon within Survive -minimalist desiderata. "This book offers a radical re-analysis of middle field Scrambling. It argues that Scrambling is a concatenation effect, as described in Stroik's Survive analysis of minimalist syntax, driven by an interpretable referentiality feature to the middle field, where syntactically encoded features for temporality and other world indices are checked. The purpose of this book is to investigate the syntactic properties of middle field Scrambling in synchronic West Germanic languages, and to explore to what possible extent we can classify Scrambling as a 'syntactic phenomenon' within Survive-minimalist desiderata."--BOOK JACKET Michael T. Putnam. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [201]-212) And Index.