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Principles and Parameters of Syntactic Saturation

By: Gert Webelhuth

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Paperback | 24 September 1992

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This work represents the first full-scale attempt to provide a restrictive theory of parameters--the nature and limits of syntactic variation. Focusing on syntactic saturation, Webelhuth hypothesizes that in natural language these phenomena are subject to the "Saturation Condition." He explains the principles behind this condition and demonstrates how it imposes strong constraints on what counts as a possible parameter in natural language. Webelhuth goes on to test this theory against empirical evidence from seven modern Germanic languages: German, Dutch, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Icelandic.

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"This study is a very important contribution both to German (and Germanic) syntax and to linguistic theory."--Jindrich Toman, University of Michigan "This study is a very important contribution both to German (and Germanic) syntax and to linguistic theory."--Jindrich Toman, University of Michigan

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Selected List of Definitions, Diagrams, and Overview Tables	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 3
A Restrictive Theory of the Concept "Possible Parameter of Natural Language,"	p. 6
The Tension between Descriptive and Explanatory Adequacy	p. 6
A Model of Explanation: X-bar Theory	p. 13
The Bounds of Analytic Power	p. 16
Motivation for a Theory of Possible Parameters	p. 18
The Lower Bound of Analytic Power (Observational and Descriptive Adequacy)	p. 20
The Upper Bound of Analytic Power (Explanatory Adequacy)	p. 25
Locality Constraints on Lexical Information: The Variation Theorem	p. 31
A Theory of Possible Parameters: The Identical Projection Function Model	p. 40
The Atomization Problem	p. 47
A General Theory of Structure Building: Morphology within the IPF-Model	p. 55
Summary	p. 64
Basic Word Order	p. 67
Introduction	p. 67
Documenting Directionality in Modern Germanic	p. 67
Summary	p. 81
The Distribution of Finite Argument Clauses	p. 83
Introduction	p. 83
Clauses with and without Overt Complementizers	p. 83
Empirical Consequences of the Sentence Trace Universal	p. 94
Raising, Unaccusative, and Passive Verbs	p. 95
Other Constructions Where DP Is Not C-Selected	p. 98
Platzack on Swedish	p. 98
Preposition Stranding	p. 99
ECM Constructions	p. 101
Resumptive Pronouns	p. 101
Case Agreement	p. 102
Scrambling	p. 103
Conclusion	p. 111
Pied Piping	p. 115
The Theoretical Relevance of the Pied Piping Phenomenon	p. 115
Pied Piping Possibilities in Germanic	p. 116
Relative Clauses in English	p. 128
The Pied Piping Generalizations	p. 132
Introduction	p. 132
Specifiers	p. 133
Complements	p. 135
Summary of the Generalizations	p. 142
Deriving the Generalizations	p. 142
Modifiers	p. 142
[Theta]-Marked Phrases	p. 146
Specifiers of C'	p. 151
Summary and Discussion	p. 155
The Syntax of Arguments and Sentence-Internal Chain Formation in Germanic	p. 159
Introduction	p. 159
Free Word Order Structures in German and Constraints on Movement	p. 164
Extraction from PP and the Left Branch Condition	p. 165
The Specificity Constraint on Extraction from DP	p. 170
The Coordinate Structure Constraint	p. 170
The Subject Condition	p. 171
Anti-Crossover Effects	p. 172
Parasitic Gaps	p. 174
Summary of Sections 5.2.1-5.2.6	p. 176
Evidence from Language Acquisition	p. 176
Consequences of the Syntactic and Acquisitional Properties of the Free Word Order Structures	p. 178
The Properties of Sentence-Internal Chains	p. 179
DP Can Undergo the Movement Process	p. 180
PP Can Undergo the Movement Process	p. 181
The Moved Element Is in a Non-Case Marked Position	p. 182
The Movement Licenses Parasitic Gaps	p. 184
The Mover Can Strand a Preposition	p. 185
More Than One Element Can Undergo the Movement	p. 187
The Moved Element Can Pied-Pipe Its Mother Constituent	p. 187
Deriving the Chain Type Difference	p. 189
Operator and Argument Features	p. 189
Characterization of Heavy-NP Shift	p. 193
Characterization of Scrambling	p. 194
Other Free Word Order Languages	p. 201
Dutch	p. 202
Czech/Russian (Slavic)	p. 202
Hungarian (Finno-Ugric)	p. 203
Tagalog (Austronesian)	p. 203
Warlpiri (Australian)	p. 203
Japanese (Altaic)	p. 204
Haya (Niger-Kordofanian)	p. 204
Quechua (Andean-Equatorial)	p. 204
Hindi	p. 204
Scrambling and Binding Theory	p. 205
Epilogue	p. 211
Bibliography	p. 215
Index	p. 225
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