Grammar and Discourse Principles

Functional Syntax and GB Theory

By: Susumu Kuno, Ken-ichi Takami

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Hardcover | 15 December 1993 | Edition Number 1

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In "Grammar and Discourse Principles," Susumu Kuno and Ken-ichi Takami critically examine recent work in the Government and Binding framework developed by Chomsky, Rizzi, Lasnik and Saito, Huang, Aoun, and others. They demonstrate that this work encounters a variety of empirical and theoretical difficulties when confronted by an expanded range of data. Alternatively, the authors offer independently motivated functional explanations that account for these data and that do not require postulation of concepts like "L-marking" and "blocking category."
Kuno and Takami begin by looking at extraction phenomena, including extraction from complement clauses, the overt subject requirement, and subjacency, and provide functional accounts that improve on the "Barriers" analysis. Next, they discuss multiple "wh" questions in English and Japanese, with special reference to "why" and "naze," The authors also examine and ultimately reject the major arguments in support of Larson's "light predicate raising" analysis. Finally, Kuno and Takami discuss coreferentiality of picture noun reflexives and the relation of quantifier scope interpretations, particularly those in sentences involving psychological verbs such as "bother," "worry," and "please,"
In this subtly argued book, the authors raise questions of critical importance for theoretical linguists of all persuasions.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Remarks on Barriers
Introduction
Extraction from [theta]-governed Complement Clauses (1)
Extraction from [theta]-governed Complement Clauses (2)
Overt Subject Requirement
Extraction from Non-[theta]-governed Complement Clauses
Subjacency
Extraction from Subjects
Rizzi's (1990) Relativized Minimality
Wh-Extraction of Predicative APs
Functional Accounts of the AP-Extraction Phenomenon
Conclusion
Multiple Wh Questions: With Special Reference to Why and Naze 'Why'
Introduction
The So-called Complement/Noncomplement Asymmetry
Problems with Lasnik and Saito (1984, 1992)
Aoun et al. (1987)
Problems with Aoun et al. (1987)
An Alternative Explanation
Two Functional Constraints
Conclusion
Remarks on Light Predicate Raising
Introduction
Heavy NP Shift over a Predicative AP
"Freezing"
C-command (1)
C-command (2)
Conjunction in Datives
Some Additional Problems
Conclusion
Psych-Verbs, Binding Theory, and Quantifier Scope
Belletti and Rizzi's Hypothesis regarding Picture-Noun Reflexives
Status of Principle C
Counterexamples to Belletti and Rizzi's Hypothesis
Functional Explanation
Reciprocals
Psych-Verbs and Quantifier Scope
Conclusion
Concluding Remarks
Notes
References
Author Index
Subject Index
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