Synopses & Reviews
This book focuses on the most controversial area of phrase structure, the notion of specifier - a notion encompassing the traditional categories of subjects, possessors, determiners, auxiliaries, and adjuncts. It examines what place the notion has in the new theory and how the projection of specifiers is to be eliminated or extended. The contributors draw on empirical, theoretical research in cross-linguistic phenomena and first and second language acquisition.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Specifiers in Generative Grammar
Specifiers as Secondary Heads
Without Specifiers
Filling and Licensing Multiple Specifiers
EPP without Spec, IP
Spec-Head Agreement and Case in Arabice
The Specifier-Adjunct Distinction
The wh effect and Multiple Wh-fronting
Nominal and Verbal Projections
Dependencies and Extractions
Movement to Specifiers
Wh and the Locality of Feature Checking
Specifiers and Finiteness
Spec-Head Relationships in Child Swedish
Some Specs on Specs in L2 Acquistion