A syntax of Serbian
Subtitle: clausal architecture
By: Ljiljana Progovac.
Publisher: Slavica Pub.; Slavica Pub
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Serbian language -- Syntax.; Serbian language -- Clauses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1.1. The rationale; title: 1.2. Chapter-by-chapter overview; title: Word order and movement; title: 2.1. Introductory words; title: 2.2. Varied word order and copy-and-delete; title: 2.3. Wh-movement; title: 2.3.1. Single wh-movement and non-movement strategies; title: 2.3.2. Subjunctive-like verbs and domain extension; title: 2.3.3. Multiple wh-questions; title: 2.4. Verb raising; title: 2.4.1. Verb raising to i; title: 2.4.2. Verb raising to c; title: 2.5. Quantifier raising; title: 2.6. Np movement: raising and passive; title: 2.7. Concluding remarks; title: Cps and/or polarity phrases; title: 3.1. Introductory words; title: 3.2. Split cp; title: 3.3. An alternative to cp: polarity phrase; title: 3.4. Wh-/polarity connection; title: 3.5. eventive to; title: 3.6. Concluding remarks; title: Tense phrases, agreement phrases, and the expletive se; title: 4.1. Introductory words; title: 4.2. Tense phrases; title: 4.2.1. Tsp and top; title: 4.2.2. Tenses in Serbian; title: 4.2.3. Concluding remarks; title: 4.3. Agrsps and agrops: nominative, accusative, dative; title: 4.3.1. Introductory words; title: 4.3.2. Agrs phrase (and pro-drop); title: 4.3.3. Agro phrase; title: 4.3.4. Dative subjects and dative objects; title: 4.4. Expletive se; title: 4.4.1. introductory note; title: 4.4.2. Agrop and se; title: 4.4.3. Impersonal se; title: 4.5. Concluding remarks; title: Aspect phrases; title: 5.1. Introductory words; title: 5.2. Perfective and imperfective in Serbian; title: 5.3. Perfective prefixes, quantification, and aspop; title: 5.4. Imperfective suffixes, quantification, and aspsp; title: 5.5. Completion and transitivity; title: 5.6. Concluding remarks; title: At the head of the clause: second position clitics; title: 6.1. Introductory words; title: 6.2. Full vs. clitic forms; title: 6.3. Special positioning and clustering; title: 6.4. Stress or structure: is there a first-word option?; title: 6.5. Intonation (and clause) boundaries; title: 6.6. It can't be the first word: evidence from event; title: Demonstrative to; title: 6.7. Subjunctive-like complements, clitic climbing, and; title: Other movement operations; title: 6.8. Clitic-second and verb-second: the connection; title: 6.8.1. Verb-second; title: 6.8.2. Clitics target the highest clausal head; title: 6.9. Clitics as affixes on a silent copy of the verb; title: 6.9.1. An outline of the analysis; title: 6.9.2. Clitic-second and the lexical verb; title: 6.9.3. Clitic-second and the auxiliary verb; title: 6.9.4. clitic-second and complementizers; title: 6.10. Concluding remarks; title: Negative concord, polarity, and the two polps; title: 7.1. Foreword; title: 7.2. Introduction: negative and positive feature; title: Checking and the distribution of polarity items; title: 7.2.1. Outline of the analysis; title: 7.2.2. Basic assumptions about polarity phrases; title: 7.2.3. Organization; title: 7.3. N-words and ppis; title: 7.4. Serbian i-npis and English any-npis; title: 7.5. Wh-questions and npis; title: 7.6. Wh-adjuncts and npis; title: 7.7. Concluding remarks; title: Event pronominal to; title: 8.1. Foreword; title: 8.2. Introduction; title: 8.3. To as an event pronominal; title: 8.3.1. Introductory words; title: 8.3.2. Deictic to; title: 8.3.3. Anaphoric to; title: 8.3.4. Bound-variable to; title: 8.4. To/ovo/ono; title: 8.5. Concluding remarks; title: Conclusion; title: References; title: Index.