Bailey Laura R., Shehan Michelle (eds). Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure

Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. — x, 395 p. — (Open Generative Syntax 1). — ISBN: 978-3-96110-026-2; 978-3-96110-027-9.This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language.Michelle Sheehan, Laura R. Bailey. Introduction: Order and structure in syntax.
Word order and syntactic structure.
Kajsa Djärv, Caroline Heycock, Hannah Rohde. Assertion and factivity: Towards explaining restrictions on embedded V2 in Scandinavian.
Jan-Wouter Zwart. An argument against the syntactic nature of verb movement.
Geoffrey Poole. Feature inheritance in Old Spanish: (re)visiting V2.
Urpo Nikanne. Finite sentences in Finnish: Word order, morphology, and information structure.
Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Gunlög Josefsson. Scandinavian object shift is phonology.
Ellen Woolford. Mainland Scandinavian object shift and the puzzling ergative pattern in Aleut.
Ricardo Etxepare, Bill Haddican. Repairing Final-Over-Final Condition violations: Evidence from Basque verb clusters.
Marit Julien. Head-initial postpositional phrases in North Sámi.
Theresa Biberauer. Probing the nature of the Final-over-Final Condition: The perspective from adpositions.
Norvin Richards. Nuclear stress and the life cycle of operators.
Martina Wiltschko. Response particles beyond answering.
George Tsoulas. The common syntax of deixis and affirmation.
Squibs.
Sten Vikner, Ken Ramshøj Christensen, Anne Mette Nyvad. V2 and cP/CP.
Mais Sulaiman. Verb second not verb second in Syrian Arabic.
Luigi Rizzi. Uniqueness of left peripheral focus, “further explanation”, and Int.
Christer Platzack. Swedish wh-root-infinitives.
Richard S. Kayne. A note on some even more unusual relative clauses.
Joseph Emonds. Theoretical limits on borrowing through contact; not everything goes.