Foundational issues in linguistic theory
Subtitle: essays in honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud
By: edited by Robert Freidin, Carlos P. Otero, and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta.
Contributors: Vergnaud, Jean-Roger.; Freidin, Robert.; Otero, Carlos Peregrín, 1930-; Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa.
Series: Current studies in linguistics -- 45; Current studies in linguistics series -- 45.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780262062787; 9780262562331
Subjects: Linguistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Letter to Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik on "filters and control," April 17, 1977 / Jean-Roger Vergnaud; value: On the development of case theory : triumphs and challenges / Howard Lasnik; value: Uninterpretable features are incompatible in morphology with other minimalist postulates / M. Rita Manzini & Leonardo M. Savoia; value: Parallel nominal and verbal projections / Karine Megerdoomian; value: Clause structure and the syntax of verbless sentences / Elabbas Benmamoun; value: On phases / Noam Chomsky; value: Phasal agreement and reconstruction / Alain Rouveret; value: Superiority, reconstruction, and islands / Cedric Boeckx & Norbert Hornstein; value: Identity avoidance: OCP effects in Swiss relatives / Henk van Riemsdijk; value: Ellipsis and missing objects / Joseph Aoun & Yen-hui Audrey Li; value: Tokenism and identity in anaphora / Edwin Williams; value: Some preliminary comparative remarks on French and Italian definite articles / Richard S. Kayne; value: Reduplication / Morris Halle; value: The logic of contrast / B. Elan Dresher.