Derived Coordination: A Minimalist Perspective on Clause Chains, Converbs and Asymmetric Coordination

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This monograph explores the different types of clausal relations in the world’s languages. In the recent literature, there have been claims that the strict dichotomy of subordination and coordination cannot be maintained since some constructions seem to be in between these two categories. This study investigates these constructions in detail. The first part is concerned with clause chaining constructions, while the second is concerned with different cases of asymmetric coordination in English. In both parts, it is shown that the different tests to distinguish clausal relations indeed yield different results for the specific constructions. This poses a severe challenge for the established theories of clausal relations. However, as it is argued, recent analyses of coordination provide for the possibility to map a subordinate structure onto a coordinate one by means of regular transformational rules. It is shown that a single movement step derives all the peculiar properties of the phenomena in question. This book thus provides the first comprehensive solution for a long-standing problem in theoretical syntax. Contents Abbreviations Abstract Part I: Clause Chains, Medials, and Converbs 1 Introducing Clause Chains 2 Properties of Medial Constructions 2.1 The Morphological Form of Medial Clauses 2.2 The Syntactic Properties of Medial Clauses 2.3 Summary 3 Previous Analyses 3.1 Subordination Approaches 3.2 Coordination Approaches 4 A Derived Coordination Approach to Medial Clauses 4.1 Theoretical Background 4.1.1 The Dichotomy of Coordination and Subordination 4.1.2 The Derived Coordination Account 4.2 A Derived Coordination Account of Medial Constructions 4.2.1 The Category of Medial Clauses 4.2.2 Applying the Theory 4.3 Deriving the Properties of Medial Constructions 4.3.1 Morphological Dependence 4.3.2 Extraposition and Center Embedding 4.3.3 Backward Pronominalization 4.3.4 Extraction 4.4 Summary 5 MultipleMedial Clauses 6 Medials Remaining in Situ: Converbs 6.1 General Properties of Converb Clauses 6.2 Applying Clausal Relation Tests 6.3 Deriving the Syntactic Properties of Converb Clauses 7 Two Case Studies: Tsakhur and Korean 7.1 Two Types of Converbs in Tsakhur 7.2 Converbs and Chaining in Korean 8 Crosslinguistic Variation of Clause Chaining Constructions 8.1 Parametrizing the Derived Coordination Approach 8.2 Variation of Scopal Properties 8.3 Extraction 8.4 More Parameters 8.5 Summary 9 A New Perspective on Switch-Reference 10 Summary of Part I Part II: Asymmetric Coordination 1 Introducing Asymmetric Coordination 2 Scene-Setting Coordination 2.1 The properties of Scene-Setting Coordination 2.2 Previous Analyses of SceCo 2.2.1 A subordination analysis: Wiklund (1996,2007) 2.2.2 A coordination analysis: De Vos (2009) 2.3 A Derived Coordination Account of Scene-Setting Coordination 2.3.1 The Category of SceCo conjuncts 2.3.2 The Analysis of SceCo constructions 2.4 SceCo with Multiple Conjuncts 3 Consecutive Coordination 3.1 Integrating ConsecCo Constructions into the Theory of SceCo 3.2 Mixed Cases of SceCo and ConsecCo 4 Conditional Coordination 4.1 Some Syntactic Properties of CondCo 4.2 Previous Analyses 4.2.1 Culicover & Jackendo (1997) 4.2.2 Keshet (2013) 4.3 A Derived Coordination Account to CondCo 4.3.1 The Analysis of CondCo 4.3.2 Deriving the Properties of CondCo 4.4 Combining Dierent Cases of Asymmetric Coordination 4.5 Summary 5 Summary of Part II Part III: Theoretical Discussion and Open Issues 1 Movement to Spec&P and its trigger 2 The Coordinate Structure Constraint as a Derivational Principle 3 The Merge over Move-Principle 4 Transparent Adjuncts, Opaque Adjuncts 5 Constraining the Mechanism: Avoiding Overgeneration 6 Syntactic Evidence for Asymmetric Coordination Phrases Conclusion Bibliography Index