Theoretical comparative syntax : studies in macroparameters / / Naoki Fukui.

• Superior document: Routledge Leading Linguists
• Author: Fukui, Naoki.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st edition
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (433 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Collected for the first time in a single volume, these essays and articles by Naoki Fukui form an outline of some of the most significant and formative contributions to syntactic theory. Focusing particularly on the typological differences between English/type language and Japanese/type languages, Fukui examines the abstract parameters that both link and divide them. Linguistic universals are considered in the light of cross-linguistic variation and typological (parametric) differences are investigated from the viewpoint of universal principles.The book's main focus is the nature and

Table of Contents

Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Original publication details; Introduction; 1. Specifiers and projection; 2. LF extraction of naze: Some theoretical implications; 3. Strong and weak barriers: Remarks on the propercharacterization of barriers; 4. Parameters and optionality; 5. A note on improper movement; 6. The principles-and-parameters approach: A comparative syntax of English andJapanese; 7. Symmetry in syntax: Merge and Demerge; 8. Order in phrase structure andmovement; 9. An A-over-A perspective on locality; 10. The uniqueness parameter

11. Nominal structure12. Phrase structure; 13. The Visibility Guideline forfunctional categories; Appendix: On the nature of economy in language; Notes; References; Index