Edges, heads, and projections
Subtitle: interface properties
By: edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Virginia Hill.
Contributors: Di Sciullo, Anne-Marie, 1951-; Hill, Virginia.
Series: Linguistik aktuell = -- Linguistics today -- v. 156
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027255396; 9789027288288
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses; Generative grammar -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Based on presentations at a conference on "Interface legibility at the  edge", organized by the editors and held in Bucharest in June 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why edges are needed / Cedric Boeckx; title: Bare nouns with different edges / Tabea Ihsane; title: Implicit agentivity without agents in the syntax : a crosslinguistic analysis of SE-verbs / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin; title: On the edge-feature of particles, interjections, and short answers / Nicola Munaro; title: The grammar of polarity particles in Romanian / Donka F. Farkas; title: Evidentials as generalized functional heads / Peggy Speas; title: On the pre-theoretical notion phrasal head : ignoring the left periphery is always at your own risk / Alexandru Grosu; title: Predication and the nature of non-finite relatives in Romance / Ion Giurgea and Elena Soare; title: On the asymmetry of root versus embedded clauses : evidence from Shipibo second position clitics / José Camacho; title: The cartography of phases : facts and inference in Meiteilon / Ayesha Kidwai.