The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads: Collected Essays of Hilda J. Koopman (Routledge Leading Linguists 3)

Collected Essays of Hilda J. KoopmanSpecifiers and Heads covers such topics as: * Interpretation and distribution of pronouns * ECP effects * Specifiers and phrase structure * The role and functioning of head movement * The architecture of grammar Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch. "Derivations draws together some of the most influential work of one of the world's leading syntactitians, Juan Uriagereka. These essays provide several empirical analyses and technical solutions within the Minimalist Program. The book pursues a naturalistic take on Minimalism, explicitly connecting a variety of linguistic principles and conditions to arguably analogous laws and circumstances in nature." "This book will be of interest not only to the working syntactician, but also those more generally concerned with word architecture."--Jacket Derivations draws together some of the most influential work of one of the world's leading syntactitians, Juan Uriagekera. These essays provide several empirical analyses and technical solutions within the Minimalist Program. The book persues a naturalistic take on Minimalism, explicitly connecting a variety of linguistic principles and conditions to arguably analogous laws and circumstances in nature The essays here cover a wide range of topics: the interpretation and distribution of pronouns; ECP effects; specifiers and phrase structure; heads; the role and functioning of head movement; and the architecture of grammar. The term variable has been introduced into recent linguistic theoretical frameworks by analogy with standard logic usage.