Bailey Laura R., Shehan Michelle (eds.) Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure

Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. — x, 359 p. — (Open Generative Syntax 2). — ISBN: 978-3-96110-028-6; 978-3-96110-029-3.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. This 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.Laura R. Bailey, Michelle Sheehan. Introduction: Order and structure in syntax.
Papers.
Höskuldur Thráinsson. On the softness of parameters: An experiment on Faroese.
Artemis Alexiadou, Janayna Carvalho. The role of locatives in (partial) pro-drop languages.
Ciro Greco, Liliane Haegeman, Trang Phan. Expletives and speaker-related meaning.
Tarald Taraldsen. Places.
Jenneke van der Wal. Flexibility in symmetry: An implicational relation in Bantu double object constructions.
Elena Anagnostopoulou. Defective intervention effects in two Greek varieties and their implications for φ-incorporation as Agree.
Verner Egerland. First Person Readings of MAN: On semantic and pragmatic restrictions on an impersonal pronoun.
Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson. Who are we — and who is I? About Person and SELF.
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri. New roles for Gender: Evidence from Arabic, Semitic, Berber, and Romance.
Janne Bondi Johannessen. Puzzling parasynthetic compounds in Norwegian.
Squibs.
Jonathan David Bobaljik. On a “make-believe” argument for Case Theory.
Makiko Mukai. Semantic characteristics of recursive compounds.
Elisabet Engdahl. Expletive passives in Scandinavian — with and without objects.
Małgorzata Krzek. The null subject parameter meets the Polish impersonal -NO/-TO construction.
Ali Algryani. Ellipsis in Arabic fragment answers.
Patrick Chi-wai Lee. Anaphoric object drop in Chinese.
Susi Wurmbrand. Icelandic as a partial null subject language: Evidence from fake indexicals.