Of Grammar, Words, and Verses: In Honor of Carlos Piera

285 Pages·2012·3.296 MB·Language Faculty and Beyond 8

by  Esther Torrego (ed.)

Of Grammar, Words, and Verses
Language Faculty and Beyond
Internal and External Variation in Linguistics
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Kleanthes K. Grohmann Pierre Pica
University of Cyprus CNRS, Paris
Advisory Board
Paola Benincà Anders Holmberg
University of Padova, Italy University of Newcastle, UK
Cedric Boeckx Lyle Jenkins
ICREA/UB Biolinguistics Institute, Cambridge, USA
Guglielmo Cinque Richard K. Larson
University of Venice, Italy Stony Brook University, USA
Noam Chomsky Andrew Ira Nevins
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University College London, UK
Cambridge, USA
Alain Rouveret
Stephen Crain University of Paris VII, France
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Esther Torrego
Marcel den Dikken University of Massachusetts, Boston USA
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA
Anna Papafragou
Naama Friedmann University of Delaware, Newark, USA
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Akira Watanabe
University of Tokyo, Japan
Volume 8
Of Grammar, Words, and Verses. In honor of Carlos Piera
Edited by Esther Torrego
Of Grammar,
Words, and Verses
In honor of Carlos Piera
Edited by
Esther Torrego
University of Massachusetts

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Of grammar, words, and verses : in honor of Carlos Piera / edited by Esther Torrego.
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1. Versification. 2. Linguistics. I. Torrego, Esther. II. Piera, Carlos, 1942-
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments vii
Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Esther Torrego
chapter1
Structure at the bottom 5
Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka
chapter2
The absent, the silent, and the audible: Some thoughts
on the morphology of silent verbs 19
Henk van Riemsdijk
chapter3
Lexical change and the architecture of the Lexicon 41
Jamal Ouhalla
chapter4
Dylan Thomas’s meters 67
Nigel Fabb and Morris Halle
chapter5
The metrical system of William Carlos Williams 87
John Bowers
chapter6
Linearization preferences given “Free Word Order”;
subject preferences given ergativity: A look at Basque 115
Itziar Laka and Kepa Erdocia
vi OfGrammar,Words,andVerses
chapter7
On the fronting of non-contrastive topics in Germanic 143
Gema Chocano
chapter8
Blackjack! 21 arguments that agreeing adjectives are derived nominals 171
Joseph E. Emonds
chapter9
Connectivity and definiteness in an English equative construction 201
Randall Hendrick
chapter10
On certain distributional gaps of Spanish possessives:
A “Phrasal Spell-Out” account 217
Luis Sáez
chapter11
Variability in the case patterns of causative formation in Romance
and its implications 237
Esther Torrego
Index 269
Acknowledgments
Theeditorofthisvolumewishestothankthethirteencontributors,whosework
appearshere.Additionally,manythanksgoouttooneoftheanonymousreview-
ers,whosekeeninsightandknowledgehelpedtopullthisvolumetogether.Spe-
cialthankstoJoeEmonds,whohelpedtotrackdownandcontactafew“missing
links.”ThanksalsotoCarlosOteroforhissupportandenthusiasmwiththeproject.
Finally,muchgratitudetoGemaChocanoforherguidanceandproductionhelp.

Contributors
John Bowers,[email protected]
JohnBowersisProfessorofLinguisticsatCornellUniversity.Hehaspublished
manyarticlesandseveralbooksintheareaofsyntaxandmorphology.Amongthe
topicsthathavebeenofparticularconcerntohiminrecentyearsarepredication,
argumentstructure,andobligatorycontrol.HismostrecentbookisArguments as
Relations,publishedin2010byMITPressintheLinguisticInquiryMonograph
series.
Gema Chocano,[email protected]
GemaChocanoisAssistantProfessorattheUniversidadAutónomadeMadrid.
SheisauthorofthemonographNarrow Syntax and Phonological Form: Scram-
bling in the Germanic languages,arevisionofherPhDdissertationsupervisedby
CarlosPiera.
Joseph E. Emonds,[email protected]
JosephE.Emonds,DepartmentofBritishandAmericanStudies,PalackýUni-
versity,Olomouc,CzechRepublic,haspublishedfourbooksonsyntacticand
morphologicalanalysis:Transformational Approach to English Syntax, Unified
Theory of Syntactic Categories, Lexicon and Grammar: The English Syntacticon,
andDiscovering Syntax.HeisAmericanbutmovedtoEnglandin1992.Hehas
alsotaughtinFrance,Holland,Japan,Austria,SpainandtheCzechRepublic.
Kepa Erdozia,[email protected]
KepaErdociaisaRamónyCajalresearcherattheUniversityoftheBasqueCoun-
try.HeobtainedthePhDinLinguisticsin2006.Heusesmethodsfromtheneuro-
cognitiveexperimentationsuchasEventRelatedBrainPotentialsandfunctional
MagneticResonanceImaginginordertoinvestigatehowthebrainprocesses
complexsyntacticstructures.
Nigel Fabb,[email protected]
NigelFabbisProfessorofLiteraryLinguisticsattheUniversityofStrathclyde
(Scotland),aneditorofJournal of Linguisticsandanauthorofninebookson
linguistics,literature,andliterarylinguistics,mostrecentlyMeter in Poetry(with
MorrisHalleandwithachapterbyCarlosPiera).