Minimalist Interfaces: Evidence from Indonesian and Javanese (Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today, LA 155)

177 Pages·2010·0.99 MB·English

by  Yosuke Sato

Minimalist Interfaces
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Volume 155
Minimalist Interfaces. Evidence from Indonesian and Javanese
by Yosuke Sato
Minimalist Interfaces
Evidence from Indonesian and Javanese
Yosuke Sato
National University of Singapore
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Sato, Yosuke, 1978-
Minimalist interfaces : evidence from Indonesian and Javanese / Yosuke Sato.
p. cm. (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, issn 0166-0829 ; v. 155)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Minimalist theory (Linguistics) 2. Indonesian language--Syntax. 3. Javanese language-
-Syntax. I. Title.
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements xi
List of abbreviations xiii
chapter 1
Minimalist interfaces 1
1. Minimalist interfaces 1
. Overview of the book 3
chapter 2
Reduplication asymmetries at the syntax–lexicon interface 7
1. Introduction 7
. Lexicalist vs. non-lexicalist theories 10
.1 Lexicalist theories 10
. Non-lexicalist theories 15
3. Asymmetries between nominal and verbal reduplication
in Indonesian 17
. Reduplication asymmetries in Indonesian
and lexicalist theories 19
.1 Chomsky’s (1970) weak lexicalist hypothesis 0
. Anderson’s (1982, 1992) weak lexicalist theory 
.3 Kiparsky’s (1982a, b, c, 1985)/Mohanan’s (1986)
Lexical Phonology 5
. Di Sciullo and Williams’ (1987)/Williams’ (2007)
strong lexicalist theory 8
.5 The lexicon as the source of the ordering paradox 9
5. A distributed morphology approach to reduplication
asymmetries in Indonesian 30
5.1 Verbal reduplication 30
5. Nominal reduplication 3
. Conclusions 3
chapter 3
Successive cyclicity at the syntax–morphology interface 39
1. Introduction 39
. Active voice morphology in Standard Indonesian 0
iii Minimalist Interfaces
3. Active voice deletion in Kendal Javanese 3
. Locality and “deletion” at the syntax–morphology interface 7
.1 “meN- deletion” as failure of vocabulary insertion 7
. Unaccusativity in Standard Indonesian
and the phasehood of little v 51
5. Other alternative analyses within Phase Theory 55
5.1 Cole et al.’s (2008) Case–Agreement analysis 55
5. Aldridge’s (2008) antipassive analysis 59
. Conclusions 0
chapter 4
P-stranding under sluicing at the syntax–phonology interface 3
1. Introduction 3
. Merchant’s (2001) theory of sluicing, the P-stranding generalization
and Indonesian 
3. The internal syntax of P-stranding sluices in Indonesian 7
3.1 Is P-less sluicing in Indonesian pseudosluicing? 8
3.1.1 Prosody 8
3.1. Exhaustivity diagnostics 9
3.1.3 The distribution of the question particle -kah
in Indonesian 71
3. Indonesian-internal evidence
for P-less sluicing ≠ pseudosluicing 7
3..1 Surface anaphora vs. deep anaphora 73
3.. Sloppy identity and c-command 7
3..3 Sluicing with multiple potential antecedents 75
3.3 Other potential alternative treatments of P-stranding
in Indonesian 75
3.3.1 Resumption (Wang 2006) 7
3.3. P-drop (Stjepanović 2008) 77
. P-stranding under sluicing in Indonesian and repair by ellipsis 79
.1 Wh-feature percolation as feature pumping 80
. Failure of percolation and repair by ellipsis 8
.3 New predictions: P-stranding under pseudogapping
in Indonesian 85
5. P-stranding under sluicing across languages: A case study
with French and German 88
5.1 D-P coalescence, D-to-P incorporation, and the syntactic
head movement 90
5. “Irreparable” computational violations 93
. Conclusions 98
Table of contents ix
chapter 5
The structure and denotation of bare nominals
at the syntax–semantics interface 99
1. Introduction 99
. Chierchia’s (1998a, b) Nominal Mapping Parameter 101
3. The denotation and morphosyntax of bare nominals
in Indonesian and Javanese 10
3.1 Bare nominals in Indonesian 103
3. Bare nominals in Javanese 109
. A relativized parametric theory of nominal denotation:
From Indonesia to the world 11
.1 A relativized parametric theory of nominal denotation
and morphosyntax 113
. Deriving the denotation and morphosyntax
of bare nominals across languages 117
5. Conclusions 19
chapter 6
Conclusion 133
1. Summary of the chapters 133
. Minimalist interfaces: Their nature, origin and evolution 13
3. Questions for future research and conjectures about
linguistic interfaces 139
References 15
Languages index 157
Subjects index 159