The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)

Edited By Ljiljana Progovac ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Cover Page......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Info......Page 5 Table of contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 1. Toward a nonsentential analysis in generative grammar......Page 22 2. The syntax of nonsententials: Small clauses and phrases at the root......Page 44 3. “Small structures”: A sententialist perspective......Page 84 4. Neither fragments nor ellipsis......Page 104 5. Big questions, small answers......Page 128 6. Extending the nonsentential analysis: The case of special registers......Page 158 7. The narrowing acquisition path: From expressive small clauses to declaratives......Page 194 8. Nonsententials and second language acquisition......Page 214 9. How language adapts to the brain: An analysis of agrammatic aphasia......Page 240 10. Nonsententials and agrammatism......Page 270 11. Reduced syntax in (prototypical) pidgins......Page 294 12. Copula variation in Guyanese Creole and AAVE: Implications for nonsentential grammar......Page 320 Epilogue: Wherefrom and whereto?......Page 334 Index of languages......Page 366 Index of names......Page 368 Index of subjects......Page 372 This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume makes a multidisciplinary case for the existence of nonsententials, which are analyzed in various chapters as root phrases and small clauses (Me; Me First!; Him worry?!; Class in session), and whose distinguishing property is the absence of Tense, and, with it, any syntactic phenomena that rely on Tense