Coreference, modality, and focus : studies on the syntax-semantics interface / edited by Luis Eguren, Olga Fernández Soriano.

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9789027291257
902729125X
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9786612151934
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Contents:

Coreference, Modality, and Focus; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Tensed modals; Weak Crossover, specificity and LF chains; Conditions on sub-extraction; Focus, exhaustivity, and deletion in English Pseudogapping; Reconstruction and scope in exclamative sentences; Reconstruction without movement; From polarity to modality; Beyond the Infinitive vs. Subjunctive Rivalry; Romance infinitives with subjects, subjunctive obviation and Control Theory; On the syntactic features of epistemic and root modals; Subject index.

Summary: This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework, mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the syntax-semantics interface. The major concerns are coreference relations, modals and modality, and focus/ellipsis. More specifically, the contributions present research findings from different languages, often adopting a comparative perspective, and include studies on sub-extraction from subjects and obj.

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This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework, mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the syntax-semantics interface. The major concerns are coreference relations, modals and modality, and focus/ellipsis. More specifically, the contributions present research findings from different languages, often adopting a comparative perspective, and include studies on sub-extraction from subjects and obj.

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