Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
- Series page
- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Background
- Part II Modern generative approaches to the study of sentence structure
- Part III Syntactic structures
- 9 Argument structureand argument structure alternations
- 10 The syntax of predication
- 11 Lexical categories and (extended) projection
- 12 The functional structure of the sentence, and cartography
- 13 Adverbial and adjectival modification
- Part IV Syntactic processes: their nature, locality, and motivation
- Part V Syntax and the internal interfaces
- Part VI Syntax and the external interfaces
- References
- Index of language names
- Index
11 - Lexical categories and (extended) projection
from Part III - Syntactic structures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
- Series page
- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Background
- Part II Modern generative approaches to the study of sentence structure
- Part III Syntactic structures
- 9 Argument structureand argument structure alternations
- 10 The syntax of predication
- 11 Lexical categories and (extended) projection
- 12 The functional structure of the sentence, and cartography
- 13 Adverbial and adjectival modification
- Part IV Syntactic processes: their nature, locality, and motivation
- Part V Syntax and the internal interfaces
- Part VI Syntax and the external interfaces
- References
- Index of language names
- Index
Summary
The dichotomy between lexical categories and functional categories raises a number of questions from the perspective of syntactic projection of lexical information. The author presents the answers by stating that much generative research on syntactic projection takes the view that projection is symmetric (i.e. parallel) across syntactic categories. The chapter discusses the projection of phrasal structure, and deals with some X-bar theoretic issues. The chapter reviews a number of phrase structural properties, including (multi-) dominance, precedence, binary branching, and multiplanar phrase structure. The chapter deals the projection of thematic information within the lexical projection, the regulating roles of the Theta Criterion and the Extended Projection Principle, and, finally, the so-called VP internal Subject. The chapter deals with the nature of functional categories and the concept of extended projection. The chapter discusses the extended nominal projection, the extended adjectival projection, and the extended adpositional projection.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax , pp. 353 - 424Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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