Formal Grammar: Theory and Variation Across English and Norwegian

459 Pages·2017·2.81 MB·English

by  Terje Lohndal

Formal Grammar
This volume draws together fourteen previously published papers which
explore the nature of mental grammar through a formal, generative
approach. The book begins by outlining the development of formal gram-
mar in the last fifty years, with a particular focus on the work of Noam
Chomsky, and moves into an examination of a diverse set of phenomena in
various languages that shed light on theory and model construction. Many
of the papers focus on comparisons between English and Norwegian, high-
lighting the importance of comparative approaches to the study of language.
With a comprehensive collection of papers that demonstrate the richness
of formal approaches, this volume is key reading for students and scholars
interested in the study of grammar.
Terje Lohndal is Full Professor of English linguistics in the Department of
Language and Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Tech-
nology, where he also serves as Deputy Head of Research and Director of
the PhD program in Language and Linguistics. In addition he also holds an
Adjunct Professor position at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
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15 Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology
Edwin Williams
16 Typological Studies
Word Order and Relative Clauses
Guglielmo Cinque
17 Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order
Shigeru Miyagawa
18 The Equilibrium of Human Syntax
Symmetries in the Brain
Andrea Moro
19 On Shell Structure
Richard K. Larson
20 Primitive Elements of Grammatical Theory
Papers by Jean-Roger Vergnaud and His Collaborators
Edited by Katherine McKinney-Bock and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
21 Pronouns, Presuppositions, and Hierarchies
The Work of Eloise Jelinek in Context
Edited by Andrew Carnie and Heidi Harley
22 Explorations in Maximizing Syntactic Minimization
Samuel D. Epstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara, and T. Daniel Seely
23 Merge in the Mind-Brain
Essays on Theoretical Linguistics and the Neuroscience of Language
Naoki Fukui
24 Formal Grammar
Theory and Variation across English and Norwegian
Terje Lohndal
Formal Grammar
Theory and Variation across
English and Norwegian
Terje Lohndal
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Original Publication Details ix
Introduction 1
PART A
Transformational Constraints 17
1 Brief Overview of the History of Generative Syntax 19
2 Noam Chomsky: A Selected Annotated Bibliography 61
3 Comp-t Effects: Variation in the Position and Features of C 85
4 Freezing Effects and Objects 113
5 Medial-wh Phenomena, Parallel Movement, and Parameters 149
6 Sentential Subjects in English and Norwegian 175
7 Be Careful How You Use the Left Periphery 203
PART B
The Syntax–Semantics Interface 229
8 Negative Concord and (Multiple) Agree: A Case Study
Of West Flemish 231
9 Medial Adjunct PPs in English: Implications for the
Syntax of Sentential Negation 265
10 Neo-Davidsonianism in Semantics and Syntax 287
11 Interrogatives, Instructions, and I-Languages:
An I-Semantics for Questions 319
vi Contents
PART C
Multilingualism and Formal Grammar 369
12 Generative Grammar and Language Mixing 371
13 Language Mixing and Exoskeletal Theory: A Case Study
of Word-Internal Mixing in American Norwegian 381
14 Grammatical Gender in American Norwegian
Heritage Language: Stability or Attrition? 413
Index 443
Acknowledgments
I am grateful to many scholars for commenting on the ideas and drafts
behind the papers included in the present volume. In particular, I am grateful
to Tor A. Åfarli, Artemis Alexiadou, Elly van Gelderen, Liliane Haegeman,
Norbert Hornstein, Howard Lasnik, Paul Pietroski, and Marit Westergaard
for all their comments and support over the years. I would also like to thank
Carlos Otero for publishing this book in his esteemed series, and my co-
authors for allowing me to include our joint work in this volume.

Original Publication Details
1 Lasnik, Howard and Terje Lohndal. 2013. Brief Overview of the History
of Generative Grammar. In The Cambridge Handbook of Generative
Syntax, Marcel den Dikken (ed.), 26–60. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni-
versity Press.
2 Lohndal, Terje and Howard Lasnik. 2013. Noam Chomsky. Oxford
Bibliographies
3 Lohndal, Terje. 2009. Comp-t Effects: Variation in the Position and Fea-
tures of C. Studia Linguistica 63: 204–232.
4 Lohndal, Terje. 2011. Freezing Effects and Objects. Journal of Linguis-
tics 47: 163–199.
5 Lohndal, Terje. 2010. Medial-wh Phenomena, Parallel Movement, and
Parameters. Linguistic Analysis 34: 215–244.
6 Lohndal, Terje. 2014. Sentential subjects in English and Norwegian.
Syntaxe et Sémantique 15: 81–113.
7 Haegeman, Liliane and Terje Lohndal. 2015. Be careful how you use the
left periphery. In Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in Honour
of Adriana Belletti, Elisa Di Domenico, Cornelia Hamann, & Simona
Matteini (eds.), 135–162. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
8 Haegeman, Liliane and Terje Lohndal. 2010. Negative Concord and
(Multiple) Agree: A Case Study of West Flemish. Linguistic Inquiry 41:
181–211.
9 De Clercq, Karen, Liliane Haegeman and Terje Lohndal. 2012. Medial
adjunct PPs in English: Implications for the syntax of sentential nega-
tion. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 35: 5–26.
10 Lohndal, Terje and Paul Pietroski. 2011. Interrogatives, Instructions,
and I-languages: An I-Semantics for Questions. Linguistic Analysis 37:
458–515.
11 Lohndal, Terje. In press. Neodavidsonianism in semantics and syntax.
In The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure, Robert Truswell (ed.).
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
12 Lohndal, Terje. 2013. Generative grammar and language mixing. Theo-
retical Linguistics 39: 215–224.