Structure Preserved

Studies in syntax for Jan Koster

Editors

C. Jan-Wouter Zwart

| University of Groningen

Mark de Vries

| University of Groningen

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"Structure is at the rock-bottom of all explanatory sciences" (Jan Koster). Forty years ago, the hypothesis that underlying the bewildering variety of syntactic phenomena are general and unified structural patterns of unexpected beauty and simplicity gave rise to major advancements in the study of Dutch and Germanic syntax, with important implications for the theory of grammar as a whole. Jan Koster was one of the central figures in this development, and he has continued to explore the structure preserving hypothesis throughout his illustrious career. This collection of articles by over forty syntacticians celebrates the advancements made in the study of syntax over the past forty years, reflecting on the structural principles underlying syntactic phenomena and emulating the approach to syntactic analysis embodied in Jan Koster's teaching and research.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 164] 2010. xxiii, 395 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.164

Table of Contents

Preface	ix–x
List of works (1971–2010) by Jan Koster	xi–xxiv
Unaccusative verbs in Chinese: Derivation in the lexicon or in syntax? Werner Abraham	1–12
Gapping is always forward Peter Ackema	13–20
Focus particle doubling Sjef Barbiers	21–30
Wh-drop and recoverability Josef Bayer	31–40
Two futures in infinitives Janneke ter Beek	41–48
A dynamic perspective on inflection Hans Bennis	49–56
Is there “preposition stranding in COMP” in Afrikaans? No way! Hans den Besten	57–64
Restructuring verbs and the structure of Spanish clauses Reineke Bok-Bennema	65–72
Cantonese as a tense second language Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng	73–80
On a selective “violation” of the Complex NP Constraint Guglielmo Cinque	81–90
Dressed numerals and the structure of Universal Numeric Quantifiers Norbert Corver	91–100
Embedded inversion and successive cyclicity Marcel den Dikken	101–108
Little words don’t lie: X' have initial X⁰ Joseph E. Emonds	109–124
Repairing head-to-head movement Arnold Ernest Evers	125–130
On the duality of patterning Jordi Fortuny	131–140
Reflexive cartography Elly van Gelderen	141–148
What does eye-tracking reveal about children’s knowledge of linguistic structure? Petra Hendriks	149–156
Depictives and the word orders of English and Dutch Herman Heringa	157–166
Feature percolation in the Dutch possessive Jack Hoeksema	167–174
On the interruption of Verb-Raising clusters by nonverbal material Eric Hoekstra	175–184
Referring to yourself in self-talk Anders Holmberg	185–192
Case-Agreement: Diptotic evidence in construct state noun phrases Riny Huybregts	193–206
Syntactic predictions in second-language sentence processing Edith Kaan, Andrea Dallas and Frank Wijnen	207–214
Notes on French and English demonstratives Richard S. Kayne and Jean-Yves Pollock	215–228
The accusative infinitive in Latin, English and Dutch Maarten Klein	229–238
Identifying in Dutch Wim Klooster	239–248
What you (and God) only know Marlies Kluck	249–256
Is agreement resolution part of core grammar? Olaf Koeneman	257–266
On Dutch allemaal and West Ulster English all Hilda Koopman	267–276
The universality of binding principles: How appearances are deceptive Eric J. Reuland	277–288
Grappling with graft Henk van Riemsdijk	289–298
Game Theory and the control of empty categories in grammar Thomas Roeper and Timothy Roeper	299–312
Copy what? Ankelien Schippers	313–320
Free relatives at the interface Radek Simík	321–328
Menace under the microscope: The two verbs menacer and the theory of control Dominique Sportiche	329–340
Case-alignment and verb placement Knut Tarald Taraldsen	341–346
Diminutive Ks?: A discussion of some Russian data Jindřich Toman	347–352
Don’t forget the determiners, Jan Henk J. Verkuyl	353–358
Empty subjects and empty objects Mark de Vries	359–366
Island Fever Edwin Williams	367–374
Something else on variables in syntax C. Jan-Wouter Zwart	375–384
Language index	385–386
Name index	387–390
Subject index	391–395

“This is a very good collection of squibs, most of which are on state-of-the-art issues in generative syntax. They are written in a clear and easy-to-follow way, which is a great achievement by the individual authors as well as the editors. The diversity of the topics in the squibs which take Koster’s work as a basis clearly shows how effective Koster has been in the generative grammar.”

Atakan İnce, MLS, MD, USA, on Linguist List 2011

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Cited by 4 other publications

CHENG, WEI & AMIT ALMOR

2017. The effect of implicit causality and consequentiality on nonnative pronoun resolution. Applied Psycholinguistics 38:01 ► pp. 1 ff.

KAAN, EDITH, JOCELYN C. BALLANTYNE & FRANK WIJNEN

2015. Effects of reading speed on second-language sentence processing. Applied Psycholinguistics 36:04 ► pp. 799 ff.

KAAN, EDITH, JOSEPH KIRKHAM & FRANK WIJNEN

2016. Prediction and integration in native and second-language processing of elliptical structures. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 19:01 ► pp. 1 ff.

SPENADER, Jennifer

2018. Children's comprehension of contrastive connectives. Journal of Child Language 45:03 ► pp. 610 ff.

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 15 december 2018. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Subjects

Linguistics

Generative linguistics

Syntax

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2010019555 | Marc record