{"id":2552,"date":"2013-06-19T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2013-06-19T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T19:08:10","slug":"functional-heads-the-cartography-of-syntactic-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=2552","title":{"rendered":"Functional heads: The cartography of syntactic structures"},"content":{"rendered":"
Functional heads: The cartography of syntactic structures.<\/strong> Vol. 7. Ed. by Laura Brug\u00e9<\/strong>, Anna Cardinaletti<\/strong>, Giuliana Giusti<\/strong>, Nicola Munaro<\/strong>, and Cecilia Poletto<\/strong> Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 432. ISBN 9780199746736<\/a>. $49.95.<\/div>\n

\u00a0Reviewed by Dimitrios Ntelitheos<\/a>, United Arab Emirates University<\/em><\/p>\n

This book is a collection of articles providing a broad picture of the consequences of the cartographic approach to the general theory of syntax. After a brief introduction by the editors, the first section starts with a study of the German interrogative marker den<\/em> by Josef Bayer<\/strong>. Paola <\/strong>Benninc\u00e0<\/strong> discusses wh<\/em>-pronouns in headless relative clauses in Italo-Romance and early English varieties, while Alessandra Giorgi<\/strong> proposes a novel theory of indexicality. G\u00fcnther Grewendorf<\/strong> presents an analysis of wh<\/em>-movement as topic movement.<\/p>\n

In the following chapter, Jacqueline Gu\u00e8ron<\/strong> and Liliane Haegeman<\/strong> discuss the distribution and interpretation of the neuter pronoun tet<\/em> in West Flemish. Elizabeth Pearce<\/strong> studies the presence of a number projection within the DP in three Southern Oceanic languages, and Gemma Rigau<\/strong> describes the properties of the Catalan particle pla<\/em>. Giampaolo Salvi<\/strong> studies the nature of the V2 system in Medieval Romance, and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta<\/strong> closes the first section with a discussion of the domain between T and negation in Romance.<\/p>\n

The second section begins with an application of the smuggling approach to the movement of verbal strings in the low clausal functional field, by Adriana Belleti<\/strong>, and Luigi Rizzi<\/strong>. Ignacio Bosque<\/strong> and M. Carme Picallo<\/strong> argue that the clitic-like element preceding a numeral in partitive constructions in Old Catalan is not a determiner but a pronoun, followed by Richard S. Kayne<\/strong> and Jean-Yves Pollock<\/strong>\u2019s exploration of hyper-complex inversion in French. Hilda Koopman<\/strong> treats Samoan ergatives as derived through a double-passivization process, while Jaklin Kornfilt<\/strong> discusses suspended affixation in nominal and verbal coordination in Turkish. Christer Platzack<\/strong> argues that the lack of backward binding in V2 languages is due to the lack of a SubjP projection because of the V2 condition.<\/p>\n

Andrew Radford<\/strong> and Mich\u00e8le Vincent<\/strong> discuss the feature composition of participal light verbs in French, containing the auxiliary avoir<\/em>, while Henk van Riemsdijk<\/strong> proposes an inherent incompatibility of uninflected pronominal forms with the dative case in German. Alain Rouveret<\/strong> explains three idiosyncratic properties of the Portuguese verbal syntax. Ur Shlonsky<\/strong> explores wh<\/em>-in-situ in French, while Dominique Sportiche<\/strong> discusses the properties of the adverbial particle re<\/em> in the same language. Tarald Taraldsen<\/strong> closes the second section, proposing that a structural object position is available in the nominal.<\/p>\n

In the final section, Werner Abraham<\/strong> discusses double definiteness in Old and Modern Scandinavian, followed by Peter Cole<\/strong> and Gabriella Hermon<\/strong>\u2019s investigation of the order of verbal affixes and functional structure in Imbabura Quechua. Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin<\/strong> treats number as a feature, followed by Joseph Emonds<\/strong>\u2019s article in which he argues for QP as the highest functional projection above NP. M. Rita Manzini<\/strong> and Leonard M. Savoia<\/strong> explore clitic and adverbial negations in Romance. Ian Roberts<\/strong> supports a cartographic approach to grammaticalization, while Halld\u00f3r \u00c1rmann Sigur\u0111sson<\/strong> and Joan Maling<\/strong> look at the nature of silent and overt marking of certain categories. The book ends with a discussion of postnominal adjectives in Greek indefinite noun phrases by Melita<\/strong> Stavrou<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This book is essential reading to anyone interested in cartographic approach within linguistic theory. Its numerous articles open new possibilities in current cutting-edge research of the morphosyntactic component of grammar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Functional heads: The cartography of syntactic structures. Vol. 7. Ed. by Laura Brug\u00e9, Anna Cardinaletti, Giuliana Giusti, Nicola Munaro, and Cecilia Poletto Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 432. ISBN 9780199746736. $49.95. \u00a0Reviewed by Dimitrios Ntelitheos, United Arab Emirates University This book is a collection of articles providing a broad picture of the consequences of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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\/2552"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}