Experimental insights into the syntax of Romanian ditransitives / Alina Tigău.

Author
Tigău, Alina [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]
  • ©2020
Description
ix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292) and index
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    Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • Abbreviations
    • Introduction
    • A brief overview of the issues touched upon in this book
    • Romanian direct objects : A comparative analysis with Spanish
    • Specificity
    • Cierto vs. cualquiera
    • Mood
    • Conclusions
    • Scope
    • Extensional QPs
    • Intensions operators
    • Indefinites and strong quantifiers
    • Some contexts which disallow DOMed DOs
    • Interim conclusions
    • Syntactically triggered DOM
    • Reinforcing the conclusions : two experiments on Romanian DOs
    • Scope dependencies with marked and unmarked DOs
    • An experiment on specificity with marked and unmarked DOs
    • Linking syntactic structure to interpretation
    • Analysing Spanish Data : DOMed DOs move, unmarked DOs do not
    • Movement and DP internal structure
    • KPs vs. DPs
    • Linking syntactic position and semantic composition
    • On the differences between Spanish and Romanian DOsv
    • Specificity, wide scope and binding
    • Weak indefinites and bare nominals
    • On the featural make-up of KPs
    • Sensitivity to animacy and definiteness
    • Integrating animacy and definiteness into syntax
    • Conclusion
    • Some considerations on the role of the clitic as a movement trigger
    • The pronominal clitic as a movement trigger
    • Background : Evidence for movement
    • An experiment on Subject : DO binding dependencies
    • A theory of cliticisation
    • Deriving clitic doubling structures
    • On the feature specification of indirect objects
    • The featural make-up of the dative IO
    • Background
    • A [Person] feature for Goal DPs
    • Romanian ditransitive configurations
    • Preliminaries
    • Motivation for the experiment and predictions
    • Experimental data on Romanian ditransitives
    • Quantificational dependencies with possessives
    • Quantificational dependencies with anaphors
    • A syntactic analysis of Romanian ditransitive configurations
    • Against two different configurations in Romanian ditransitives
    • Further arguments : semantic uniformity
    • A low position for datives
    • On [Person] and more
    • One basic configuration
    • A derivational analysis for Romanian ditransitives
    • Experimental evidence in favor of the proposed syntactic analysis
    • Secondary objects
    • General conclusions
    • Appendices
    • Appendix 1
    • Appendix 2
    • Appendix 3
    • Appendix 4
    • Bibliography
    • Index.
    ISBN
    • 1501518070
    • 9781501518072
    LCCN
    2019950221
    OCLC
    1104047990
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