{"id":1730,"date":"2011-09-08T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2011-09-05T08:58:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T06:58:56","slug":"interphases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=1730","title":{"rendered":"InterPhases"},"content":{"rendered":"
InterPhases: <\/strong>Phase-theoretic investigations of linguistic interfaces. <\/strong>Ed. by Kleanthes K. Grohmann<\/strong>. (Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics 21.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi, 352. ISBN 9780199541133<\/a>. $60.<\/div>\n

Reviewed by Roberta D\u2019Alessandro<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Leiden<\/em> University<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

This volume is a collection of selected papers from a conference on phase theory organized by the editor. In the spirit of the conference, the book features leading linguists and promising young scholars discussing cutting-edge issues in syntactic theory. The volume is divided into three parts: \u2018Conceptual issues\u2019, \u2018Articulatory issues\u2019, and \u2018Ordering issues\u2019.<\/p>\n

After Kleanthes Grohmann\u2019s extensive introduction to the concepts of phases and interfaces, Wolfram Hinzen<\/strong>\u2019s chapter discusses the possibilities of shaping the language model starting from interface conditions. Hinzen concludes that syntax is not to be considered pure one-dimensional seriation (pure Merge). Merge, hence recursion, is not the distinctive feature of human language; but rather, syntactic hierarchies and the ability to \u2018project\u2019 are. Next, Takashi Munakata<\/strong> examines \u2018The division of C-I and the nature of the input, multiple transfer, and phases\u2019, proposing that the conceptual-intentional system, usually conceived as unitary, should be considered two distinct systems. Hedde Zeijlstra<\/strong>\u2019s chapter on conflicting interface conditions observes how all parametric variation is governed by Noam Chomsky\u2019s standard minimalist thesis: language is the optimal solution to interface conditions. If these conditions conflict, several optimal solutions become available. Finally, Petr Biskup<\/strong>\u2019s article explores adjunction and condition C of binding theory in a phase-based system.<\/p>\n

Part 2 begins with a chapter by Franc Lanko Maru\u0161i\u010d<\/strong> demonstrating how both reconstruction and quantifier raising, usually believed to constitute a problem for derivational models of syntax, can be performed in a purely derivational system by postulating non-simultaneous Spell-Out to both interfaces. Next, Kayono Shiobara<\/strong> offers a phonological view of phases, showing how phonology calls for a left-to-right structure-building in the computational component. The syntax-phonology interface is also the topic of the third article in this section, in which Anthi Revithiadou<\/strong> and Vassilios Spyropoulos<\/strong> present a case-study of the prosody of clitic-doubled arguments in Greek. Last, in \u2018Spelling out prosodic domains\u2019, Yosuke Sato<\/strong> proposes a general syntax-prosody mapping hypothesis.<\/p>\n

Part 3 opens with a contribution on the position of postverbal sentential complements in German by Jiro Inaba<\/strong>. It continues with a study of across the board movement, right-node raising, and delayed Spell-Out by Asaf Bachrach<\/strong> and Roni Katzir<\/strong>, in which they propose a reformulation of movement, not a primitive of grammar, in terms of syntactic sharing, or Remerge. Next, Masanori Nakamura <\/strong>presents a generalization on the co-occurrence of ellipsis and movement: if a language allows ellipsis of a certain category in a structure, that category cannot undergo movement. This generalization can be captured by an extended theory of phases. The concluding chapter by Howard Lasnik<\/strong> presents some questions on the reformulation of covert movement in a derivational, Spell-Out based system and opens the way for further advancements (or reformulations) of syntactic theory.<\/p>\n

This is a must-read volume for anyone interested in the theory of phases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

InterPhases: Phase-theoretic investigations of linguistic interfaces. Ed. by Kleanthes K. Grohmann. (Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics 21.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi, 352. ISBN 9780199541133. $60. Reviewed by Roberta D\u2019Alessandro,\u00a0Leiden University This volume is a collection of selected papers from a conference on phase theory organized by the editor. In the spirit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}