Partitions and Atoms of Clause Structure: Subjects, Agreement, Case and Clitics

by Dominique Sportiche

Overview

This collection brings together some of Dominique Sportiche's best work, including essays that are published here for the first time.
The articles discuss the architecture of syntax in natural languages and Sportiche suggests that languages do not differ at all in their syntactic organization. This view takes shape through the analysis of a variety of syntactic configurations and essays examine what it means to be a Subject, how Case marking functions, how it relates to Agreement, and how Pronominal Clitic Constructions should be analyzed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134701292
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/05/2005
Series:	Routledge Leading Linguists
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Sportiche, Dominique

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 A theory of floating quantifiers and its corollaries for constituent structure, 2 The position of subjects, 3 Movement, agreement and case, 4, Clitic constructions, 5 Subject clitics in French and Romance: Complex Inversion and clitic doubling, 6 French predicate clitics and clause structure, 7 Sketch of a reductionist approach to syntactic variation and dependencies, 8 Appendix: Theta theory and extraction, Index