Format:
1 online resource (176 pages)
ISBN:
9789027288295
Content:
This monograph explores the interface between syntax and its related components through in-depth investigation of a sizable portion of the grammar of Indonesian and Javanese. It can be read on two levels. Theoretically, it proposes the minimalist interface thesis that syntax-external linguistic interfaces are endowed with domain-specific operations (insertion, deletion, and type shifting) to legitimize an otherwise non-convergent result of the syntactic derivation for phonological and semantic interpretation. Empirically, the monograph substantiates this thesis from detailed analyses of four phenomena (reduplication, active voice morphology, P-stranding under sluicing, and nominal denotation). The study not only contains a wealth of new insights into comparative syntax from the perspective of Indonesian and Javanese, but also necessitates serious reconsideration of the common view of the interfaces as merely ornamental components of natural language grammar. The monograph should appeal to syntacticians, linguists interested in linguistic interfaces and the organization of grammar, and researchers on Austronesian languages.
Content:
Minimalist Interfaces -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Minimalist interfaces -- 1. Minimalist interfaces -- 2. Overview of the book -- Reduplication asymmetries at the syntax-lexicon interface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexicalist vs. non-lexicalist theories -- 2.1 Lexicalist theories -- 2.2 Non-lexicalist theories -- 3. Asymmetries between nominal and verbal reduplication in Indonesian -- 4. Reduplication Asymmetries in Indonesian and Lexicalist Theories -- 4.1 Chomsky's (1970) Weak Lexicalist Hypothesis -- 4.2 Anderson's (1982, 1992) weak lexicalist theory -- 4.3 Kiparsky's (1982a, b, c, 1985)/Mohanan's (1986) lexical phonology -- 4.4 Di Sciullo and Williams' (1987)/Williams' (2007) strong lexicalist theory -- 4.5 The lexicon as the source of the ordering paradox -- 5. A distributed morphology approach to reduplication asymmetries in Indonesian -- 5.1 Verbal reduplication -- 5.2 Nominal reduplication -- 6. Conclusions -- Successive cyclicity at the syntax-morphology interface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Active voice morphology in Standard Indonesian -- 3. Active voice deletion in Kendal Javanese -- 4. Locality and "deletion" at the syntax-morphology interface -- 4.1 meN- deletion" as failure of vocabulary insertion -- 4.2 Unaccusativity in Standard Indonesian and the phasehood of little v -- 5. Other alternative analyses within Phase Theory -- 5.1 Cole et al.'s (2008) Case-Agreement analysis -- 5.2 Aldridge's (2008) antipassive analysis -- 6. Conclusions -- P-stranding under sluicing at the syntax-phonology interface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Merchant's (2001) theory of sluicing, the P-stranding generalization and Indonesian -- 3. The internal syntax of P-stranding sluices in Indonesian -- 3.1 Is P-less sluicing in Indonesian pseudosluicing?.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027255389
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789027255389
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=623377
