Directionality and Logical Form

On the Scope of Focusing Particles and Wh-in-situ

By: Josef Bayer

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Hardcover | 30 November 1995

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Directionality and Logical Form provides a detailed treatment of the syntax of focusing particles, such as only and even in a cross-linguistic perspective. The derivation of logical forms is shown to be under the control, not only of the ECP and subjacency, but also of directionality of government and the particular word-order parameter that holds in a given language: head-final languages systematically disallow certain derivations or readings that are available in head-initial languages. The reason is that heads that deviate in their selection properties from canonical head-finality project a directionality barrier. Various strategies are explored by which this barrier can be circumvented. Although the theory is developed mainly on the basis of the head position in German, it can be directly used to explain constraints on the scope of Wh-in-situ in Bengali and closely related languages.
Audience: Syntacticians and semanticists interested in parametric variation, as well as linguists working on Germanic and/or Indo-Aryan languages.

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Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations Used in Glosses
Introduction	p. 1
Notes	p. 8
Selected Earlier Work on the Syntax and Semantics of Focusing Particles	p. 9
Movement to a Scope Position: Quantificational and Scalar Interpretation	p. 42
Focusing Particles and Quantifiers in Pre- and Postpositional Phrases	p. 86
Focusing Particles and Quantifiers in Determiner and Noun Phrases	p. 122
Focusing Particles and Quantifiers in Adjectival Phrases	p. 157
The Verb Phrase, Clausal Complements and Extraposition	p. 186
Complementation and the Scope of Wh in Bengali	p. 251
References	p. 310
Index of Names	p. 321
Index of Subjects	p. 325
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