Introduction 1. Three Benchmarks for Distributional Approaches to Natural Language SyntaxColin Phillips PART I: CLAUSAL ARCHITECTURE2. Argument Fronting in English, Romance CLLD, and the Left PeripheryLiliane Haegeman 3. A Detailed Map of the Left Periphery of Medieval RomancePaola Beninca 4. Questions and Questioning in a Local EnglishJames McCloskey 5. VP-, D * - Movement LanguagesLisa deMena Travis PART II: NEGATION6. Parasitism, Secondary Triggering, and Depth of EmbeddingMarcel den Dikken 7. Light Negation and PolarityBernhard Schwarz and Rajesh Bhatt 8. Marking and Interpretation of Negation: A Bidirectional Optimality Theory ApproachHenriette de Swart PART III: TENSE AND ASPECT 9. Cohesion in Temporal Context: Aspectual Adverbs as Dynamic Indexicals Alice G. B. ter Meulen 10. Tense, Adverbials and QuantificationToshiyuki Ogihara
This book contains truly fundamental contributions concerning the functional makeup of the sentence by some of the very best specialists around the world. -- Guglielmo Cinque, Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio, Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy This collection's many outstanding contributions make it a volume that syntacticians and semanticists will want to study carefully. -- Richard S. Kayne, professor, Department of Linguistics, New York University This is an illuminating and rich book where comparison is pursued very seriously; different languages are considered and analyzed with sophisticated theoretical tools in different domains of syntax and semantics. Its impact will be both on current research and on the formation of advanced students in linguistics. -- Adriana Belletti, professor of linguistics, University of Siena
Raffaella Zanuttini is an associate professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Negation and Clausal Structure and coeditor of Paths Towards Universal Grammar. Hector Campos is an associate professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. He is the author of De la Oracion Simple a la Oracion compuesta and coeditor of Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory. Elena Herburger is an associate professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. She is the author of What Counts. Paul H. Portner is an associate professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. He is the author of What Is Meaning? and a coeditor of Formal Semantics and the second edition of the Handbook of Semantics.
This collection, coming from highly distinguished international specialists, is extremely important for all specialists in syntax and semantics. Reference is to many languages, all explored using sophisticated theoretical methods: as much as anything, we have here impressive confirmation of how significant theoretical linguistics may be for the analysis of the richness of human language and the analysis of complex data. Forum for Modern Language Studies
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