: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
: Alternatives to Cartography
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110217124
: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]ISSN
: 1
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This volume brings together a number of researchers working on non-cartographic conceptions of word order, movement and/or phrase structure. The proposals made in this book discuss both problems for standard cartographic theory as well as alternatives. As such, this book is the first to present a varied and in-depth overview of the position taken by a substantial number of researchers in the field today on what is presumably one of the most hotly debated and controversial issues in present-day generative grammar.




Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, University College Brussels, Belgium.
Preface6
Table of contents8
Alternatives to cartography: an introduction10
A syntactic typology of topic, focus and contrast24
Focus, topic, and word order: A compositional view62
A focus-binding conspiracy. Left-to-right merge, scrambling and binary structure in European Portuguese96
Phases and variation: Exploring the second factor of the faculty of language118
Varieties of INFL: TENSE, LOCATION, and PERSON162
CAT meets GO: Auxiliary inversion in German verb clusters212
A solution to the conceptual problem of cartography254
Adjective placement and linearization284
Some implications of improper movement for cartography334
There is no alternative to cartography370
Index384