A Minimalist Approach to Scrambling: Evidence from Persian
A Minimalist Approach to Scrambling: Evidence from Persian (Studies in Generative Grammar) Simin Karimi,
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110182963
DDC: 428
Edition: Hardcover; 2005-03-31
Summary:
This study addresses the problems scrambling langauges provide for
the existing syntactic theories by analyzing the interaction of
semantic and discourse functional factors with syntactic properties
of word order in this type of languages, and by discussing the
implications of this interaction for Universal Grammar. Three
interrelated goals are carefully followed in this work. The first is
to analyze the syntactic structure of Persian, a language which
exhibits free word order. With this analysis, the author has
accounted for the relative order of categorized expressions, the
motivation for their possible rearrangements, and the grammatical
results of those reorderings. In this respect, a broad range of major
syntactic phenomena, including object shift, Case, Extended
Projection Principle (EPP), binding, and scope interpretation of
quantifiers, interrogative phrases, adverbial phrases, and negative
elements are examined. This monograph is the first major theoretical
work ever published on Persian, and therefore fills the existing gap
by providing insight into the syntactic structure of this language.
The second goal is to connect these insights to similar linguistic
properties in languages in which scrambling occurs (e.g. German,
Dutch, Hindi, Russian, Japanese, and Korean), and to provide a deeper
understanding of this group of genetically diverse, but typologically
related languages. The final and principal goal is to situate the
results of this work within the framework of the Minimalist Program
(MP). The investigations in this study indicate that scrambling is
not an optional rule, and that certain principles of MP, such as the
Minimal Link Condition, are only seemingly violated in these
languages. Furthermore, it is shown that careful analysis of
scrambling with respect to binding and scope relations, and a
reanalysis of the properties of A and A' movements, cast some doubts
on the relevance of a typology of movement in natural language.
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