Tanya Reinhart
Martin Everaert and Marijana Marelj (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034135
- eISBN:
- 9780262333177
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034135.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
The present book introduces one of Tanya Reinhart's major contributions to linguistic theory, namely the Theta System, a theory of the interface between the system of concepts and the linguistic ...
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The present book introduces one of Tanya Reinhart's major contributions to linguistic theory, namely the Theta System, a theory of the interface between the system of concepts and the linguistic computational system. The core of the book – part Ia – is her seminal paper The Theta System: Syntactic Realization of Verbal Concepts, pre-published as Reinhart (2000). It is enriched with extensive annotations relating it to subsequent developments, and a summary of the approach based on Reinhart (2002). In part Ib Marijana Marelj's contribution provides an in-depth analysis of the role of accusative Case in the system. Chapter II by Julia Horvath and Tal Siloni evaluates the role of the lexicon versus the syntax in building the ‘thematic’ (vP) phase. They challenge syntacticocentric approaches to argument structure; develop an alternative, active-lexicon approach and diagnostics demonstrating that (certain) valence-changing operations apply before syntactic structure is available. Part III, by Marijana Marelj and Eric Reuland, addresses the nature of the Lexicon-Syntax parameter (Reinhart and Siloni 2005), which distinguishes two broad classes of languages. They show that this parameter can be reduced to whether or not a language has syntactic clitics, and to how valence reduction of a verb affects its Case properties.Less
The present book introduces one of Tanya Reinhart's major contributions to linguistic theory, namely the Theta System, a theory of the interface between the system of concepts and the linguistic computational system. The core of the book – part Ia – is her seminal paper The Theta System: Syntactic Realization of Verbal Concepts, pre-published as Reinhart (2000). It is enriched with extensive annotations relating it to subsequent developments, and a summary of the approach based on Reinhart (2002). In part Ib Marijana Marelj's contribution provides an in-depth analysis of the role of accusative Case in the system. Chapter II by Julia Horvath and Tal Siloni evaluates the role of the lexicon versus the syntax in building the ‘thematic’ (vP) phase. They challenge syntacticocentric approaches to argument structure; develop an alternative, active-lexicon approach and diagnostics demonstrating that (certain) valence-changing operations apply before syntactic structure is available. Part III, by Marijana Marelj and Eric Reuland, addresses the nature of the Lexicon-Syntax parameter (Reinhart and Siloni 2005), which distinguishes two broad classes of languages. They show that this parameter can be reduced to whether or not a language has syntactic clitics, and to how valence reduction of a verb affects its Case properties.
Marijana Marelj
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034135
- eISBN:
- 9780262333177
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034135.003.0002
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
This extension examines further implications of the selection of ACC in the Theta System, specifically discussing its role from the perspective of the more articulate structure of the verbal ...
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This extension examines further implications of the selection of ACC in the Theta System, specifically discussing its role from the perspective of the more articulate structure of the verbal projection developed since the inception of the minimalist program (see Marelj and Reuland, this volume, for a more extensive discussion of the Theta System vis à vis the issues raised by the Distributed Morphology perspective). It is based on the material used in an LSA course co-taught by Tanya Reinhart and Marijana Marelj in 2005.Less
This extension examines further implications of the selection of ACC in the Theta System, specifically discussing its role from the perspective of the more articulate structure of the verbal projection developed since the inception of the minimalist program (see Marelj and Reuland, this volume, for a more extensive discussion of the Theta System vis à vis the issues raised by the Distributed Morphology perspective). It is based on the material used in an LSA course co-taught by Tanya Reinhart and Marijana Marelj in 2005.
