Naslov
Minimalist Aspects of the Syntax of Closed Class Elements

Autori
Ćavar, Damir

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, diplomski rad

Fakultet
Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät

Mjesto
Potsdam, Njemačka

Datum
03.11

Godina
1994

Stranica
85

Mentor
Fanselow, Gisbert

Neposredni voditelj
Staudacher, Peter

Ključne riječi
syntax; generative grammar; minimalist program

Sažetak
Language variation in the Principle & Parameters framework was explained with the assumption that values of certain parameters vary between languages. Concerning the locus of parameters, there have been several different opinions. One assumption, formulated by Chomsky (1986), was that parameters are associated with principles of UG. Another opinion, first formulated in Borer (1983), was that parametric variation affects only the inflectional system of languages. Borer's hypothesis was an attempt to reduce all cross-linguistic variation to properties of the inflectional system of languages. Parameters in this approach are associated with individual lexical items, as part of the information included in their lexical entries. As a consequens, more then one value of a given parameter could be instantiated via different lexical items (s. Wexler & Manzini, 1987). Ouhalla (1991) presented a more eleborated approach, concerning Borer's ideas. In this approach, parameters are associated with individual lexical items, but the set of lexical items, parameters are associated with, is limited to the class of inflectional/functional categories, i.e. closed class elements of the lexicon. In this sense, "functional categories represent the flesh and blood of grammar", because they are taken to be the locus of "grammatical information which determines the structural representation of given constructions, as well as the various grammatical processes they may undergo" (Ouhalla 1991: 8). However, the main assumption in this approach is that functional categories are the locus for parametric variation. The question, how this idea can be expressed in terms of the MP, is topic of discussion in this thesis.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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