Theoretical Comparative Syntax Studies in macroparameters

• Main Author: Fukui, Naoki
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2006; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
• Subjects: 1986a; 1991b; Case Particles; chomsky; Chomsky 1986a; clause; Complex Np Constraint; condition; effect; English; English language; English language > Grammar, Comparative > Japanese; Feature Checking; Functional Categories; Functional Head; Grammar & Language Usage; Grammar, Comparative; Grammar, Comparative and general; Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax; Grammar, Syntax & Linguistic Structure; Grammar, syntax and morphology; Head Parameter; Heavy Np Shift; Japanese; Japanese language; Japanese language > Grammar, Comparative > English; Japanese Relative Clause; Language and Linguistics; Language Arts; Lexical Categories; Light Verb; Linear Order; Linguistics; maximal; Maximal Projection; MLC; Narrow Syntax; Nonfiction; Noun Phrases; Phonological Component; Phrase Structure Rules; Principles and parameters (Linguistics); projection; relative; Spec Head Agreement; subject; Subject Condition Effects; Syntax; Theoretical Linguistics; Maximal Projection; Chomsky 1986a; Spec Head Agreement; MLC; subject; Linear Order; Japanese Relative Clause; Noun Phrases; projection; clause; Subjacency Condition; Complex Np Constraint; Improper Movement; Feature Checking; Lexical Categories; maximal; Functional Head; ECP Violation; Relative Head; chomsky; Narrow Syntax; 1991b; Phrase Structure Rules; Phonological Component; condition; Functional Categories; Light Verb; 1986a; effect; Case Particles; Subject Condition Effects; Heavy Np Shift; Relative Clause; relative; Head Parameter
• ISBN: 0415341035; 0415860121; 9780415341035; 9780415860123; 9781134326662; 1134326661; 1134326653; 9781134326617; 1134326610; 9780203479179; 0203479173; 9781134326655
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203479179

Collected for the first time in a single volume, these essays and articles by Naoki Fukui form an outline of some of the most significant and formative contributions to syntactic theory. Focusing particularly on the typological differences between English/type language and Japanese/type languages, Fukui examines the abstract parameters that both link and divide them. Linguistic universals are considered in the light of cross-linguistic variation and typological (parametric) differences are investigated from the viewpoint of universal principles. The book's main focus is the nature and structure of invariant principles and parameters (variables) and how they interact to give principled accounts to a variety of seemingly unrelated differences between English and Japanese. The contrasts between these two types of language is an ideal testing ground, since the languages are superficially different in virtually every aspect of their linguistic structures from word order and wh-movement, to grammatical agreement and case-marking systems, among many others. These articles constitute a considerable contribution to the development of the principles-and-parameters model in its exploration and refinement of theoretical concepts and fundamental principles of linguistic theory, leading to some of the basic insights that lie behind the minimalist program.