Functional Projection of CP and Phrase Structure Parametrization: An Argument for the Strong Continuity Hypothesis

2018 ◽  
pp. 85-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Lust
Keyword(s):  
Phrase Structure ◽  
Strong Continuity ◽  
Continuity Hypothesis ◽  
Functional Projection

Partitive and pseudo-partitive revisited: Reflections on the status of ‘de’ in French

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Battye
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Phrase Structure ◽  
Functional Projection ◽  
Nominal Phrase ◽  
Indefinite Article ◽  
The Status

AbstractThe radical structural distinction often proposed between pseudo-partitive (i.e. beaucoup de problèmes) and partitive (i.e. beaucoup des problèmes épineux) is argued to be the by-product of too restrictive a view of the internal structure of the noun phrase in French. A more articulated nominal phrase structure is adopted here, one which makes. use of the idea of the determiner being itself the head of a functional projection (the so-called DP-panalysis). This DP approach to partitive and pseudo-partitive configurations, it is proposed, also allows for a reappraisal of what are traditionally termed the partitive and plural indefinite article (i.e. du, de la, de l' and des).

scholarly journals The acquisition of wh-questions in Russian

Nordlyd ◽  
10.7557/12.59 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Rojina
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
Landing Site ◽  
Weak Version ◽  
Parameter Setting ◽  
Continuity Hypothesis ◽  
Acquisition Process ◽  
Functional Projection ◽  
Syntactic Development ◽  
Wh Questions ◽  
In The Beginning

In this paper, I study the acquisition of wh-questions in Russian by one Russian-speaking child from an early stage of syntactic development. For my analysis, I follow Plunkett (1992:73) in adopting a weak version of the Continuity Hypothesis where all the principles of UG are available from the outset of the acquisition process, but the structure of the functional template must be built up before parameter setting can begin. I adopt this hypothesis due to its compatibility with my finding that in the acquisition of Russian wh-questions, the functional projection CP appears at a later stage of syntactic development than other functional projections. Following Plunkett, I assume that in the beginning, the landing site for the wh-word is [Spec,TP] and later, for the valuation of other features (such as finiteness), the child is forced to acquire another functional projection (CP) in order to create a landing site for the wh-word. <p> The analysis shows that the first wh-questions acquired by the child are wh-complement questions. The child starts to produce subject wh-questions when the CP projection is acquired, and by the age of 2;4.14, the child’s structure of wh-questions is close to that of adult speech.

Multiple object positions and how to diagnose them

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lieven Danckaert
Keyword(s):  
Structure Analysis ◽  
Phrase Structure ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Multiple Object ◽  
Reliable Source ◽  
Extended Projection ◽  
Modal Verb ◽  
Source Of Information

This chapter addresses the question of which syntactic environment constitutes the most reliable source of information on variable object placement in Latin. The relevance of this question is illustrated by showing that very different results are obtained when one compares the rate of VO in two different syntactic contexts, namely clauses with a single synthetic verb and clauses with a modal verb and a dependent infinitive. It is argued that the OV/VO alternation is best studied to clauses with more than one verb, as in such clauses, more object positions can be unambiguously identified. The final part of the chapter is devoted to the phrase structure analysis of clauses with the modals possum ‘be able’ and debeo ‘have to’. These structures are argued to constitute monoclausal domains, in which the modals are raising predicates that originate in functional heads in the extended projection of lexical verbs.

OV versus VO in Old High German

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Petrova ◽  
Helmut Weiß
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Landing Site ◽  
Old High German ◽  
Verb Movement ◽  
Functional Projection ◽  
Functional Head ◽  
Word Order Variation ◽  
Order Variation ◽  
The Right

This chapter surveys the word order variation in the right periphery of the clause in OHG. The investigation is based on a corpus including all dependent clauses introduced by the complementizer thaz ‘that’ in the minor OHG documents, a collection of up to forty smaller texts of various genres. The analysis shows that the majority of the data can be explained within a standard OV grammar, assuming additional extraposition of heavy XPs to the right. But apart from these cases, there is evidence supporting the assumption of leftward movement of the verb to an intermediate functional projection vP which is optional with basic OV but obligatory with basic VO. In addition, the chapter presents patterns which evidently involve verb movement to a higher functional head, above vP, and discusses the nature of the landing site of the verb in these cases.

scholarly journals R-continuous functions

1992 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ch. Konstadilaki-Savvapoulou ◽  
D. Janković
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Functions ◽  
Strong Form ◽  
Topological Spaces ◽  
Strong Continuity ◽  
Closed Graph ◽  
Continuity Properties

A strong form of continuity of functions between topological spaces is introduced and studied. It is shown that in many known results, especially closed graph theorems, functions under consideration areR-continuous. Several results in the literature concerning strong continuity properties are generalized and/or improved.

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