Constructions in Minimalism : A Functional Perspective on Cyclicity
Trotzke, Andreas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Centre de Lingüística Teòrica)

Data:	2020
Resum:	This article presents a perspective on syntactic cyclicity in minimalism that is compatible with fundamental ideas in construction-grammar approaches. In particular, I outline the minimalist approach to syntactic structure building and highlight that units of potentially any phrasal size can be atomic items in the syntactic derivation, showing that the opposition between simplex linguistic items ("words") and more complex ones ("phrases") in minimalism is in principle as artificial as in many construction-grammar approaches. Based on this perspective on structure building, I focus on the empirical domain of subextraction patterns out of complex subjects, adjuncts, and complements, and I demonstrate that the acceptability patterns in this domain can be explained by a functional approach to syntactic cyclicity: Unacceptable patterns are ruled out not for configurational (and hence syntactic) reasons, but rather they systematically follow from infelicitous interpretations at the syntax-discourse interface. This raises the question of whether syntactic cyclicity is (at least in part) motivated by performance (read: "language-in-use") constraints, which I consider another area for fruitful interaction between construction-grammar and usage-based accounts on the one hand and minimalism on the other hand.
Ajuts:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad 2017-BP00031
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Construction ; Cyclicity ; Derivation ; Discourse ; Minimalism ; Opacity ; Phases ; Syntax
Publicat a:	Frontiers in psychology, Vol. 11 (september 2020) , ISSN 1664-1078

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02152
PMID: 33013549

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