1st Edition
Partitions and Atoms of Clause Structure Subjects, Agreement, Case and Clitics
By Dominique Sportiche
Copyright 1998
448 Pages
by
Routledge
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.
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
Biography
Sportiche, Dominique
