Norbert Hornstein
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 741776 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Norbert Hornstein |
| PRENOMES | Norbert |
| SOBRENOME | Hornstein |
| ASSINATURA | HORNSTEIN N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 351 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Extended Merge Hypothesis and the Fundamental Principle of Grammar
This paper discusses the main minimalist theory within the Minimalist Program, something I dub the (Weak) Merge Hypothesis (MH). (1) The (Weak) Merge Hypothesis (MH): Merge is a central G operation. I suggest that we extend (1) by adding to it a general principle that I dub the Fundamental Principle of Grammar (FPG). (2) The Fundamental Principle of Grammar (FPG): α and β can be grammatically related. (G-related) only if α and β have merged. Addi…
Syntactic Structures after 60 Years
The Minimalist Program After 25 Years
The Minimalist Program (MP) has been around for about 25 years, and anecdotal evidence suggests that conventional wisdom thinks it a failure. This review argues that MP has been a tremendous success and has more than met the very high goals it had set for itself. This does not imply that there is not more to be done. There is, a lot more. But the problems are those characteristic of successful and ongoing research programs. Why the perception of …
Head-head relations in Problems of projection
argues that D of an external argument in Spec TP is in principle as close to C as T is. Assuming that “inversion depends upon locality independent of category,” T and D should therefore compete with each other as candidates for raising to C in English questions, yet only T so raises. Chomsky takes this to indicate that the external argument is in its base position, Spec, vP, when C is merged. Our paper argues that this approach cannot generalize …
Some Purported Problems for the Movement Theory of Control
Ndayiragije (2012) and Wood (2012) present arguments against the movement theory of control (MTC) based on data from Kirundi and Icelandic, respectively. We show that these data are easily accounted for by current formulations of the MTC
Experimental Syntax and Island Effects
Epicene Agreement and Inflected Infinitives When the Data Is “Under Control”
Two empirical domains in Brazilian Portuguese have recently been claimed by Modesto (2010) to be problematic for the movement theory of control. We employ experimental‐syntax methods and find that more rigorous methodology reveals a more robust set of results that undermines both lines of argumentation. The first argument concerns agreement with epicene nouns in Romance that can be used as a diagnostic for the underlying presence of a moved eleme…
A Note on P-Stranding and Adjunct Extraction from Nominals
Bošković ( 2005 , 2008 ) outlines a phase-based analysis of adjunct extraction in determinerless languages like Serbo-Croatian (SC). The analysis is modeled on recent phase-based analyses of P(reposition)-stranding (see Abels 2003 , 2012 ) wherein the richness of the functional structure of the PP determines whether extraction is possible. This squib identifies a problem for a unified analysis of these two phenomena. Bans on adjunct extraction ar…
Verb Movement
Icelandic Control Really Is A-Movement
This article discusses the challenges that Bobaljik and Landau (2009) pose to Boeckx and Hornstein's (2006) movement-based analysis of control in Icelandic. We show in detail that contrary to what Bobaljik and Landau claim, the movement theory of control (with a modification to accommodate quirky Case, a specialty of Icelandic) makes the right empirical cuts regarding the issues they raise, namely, (a) the differences in Case agreement between co…
A Puzzle About P-Stranding and a Possible Solution
October 01 2010 A Puzzle About P-Stranding and a Possible Solution In Special Collection: CogNet Alex Drummond, Alex Drummond University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Norbert Hornstein, Norbert Hornstein University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Howard Lasnik Howard Lasnik University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Goog…
Copy-reflexive and copy-control constructions
This paper discusses reflexive and control constructions in San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec (Lee 2003) and Hmong (Mortensen 2003), where instead of a reflexive in the former and a null category in the latter, one may find a copy of the antecedent. The paper argues that these constructions provide compelling evidence for a movement analysis of control (Hornstein 2001, 2003; Boeckx & Hornstein 2003, 2004) and reflexivization (Hornstein 2001), as well as…
Perception and Causative Structures in English and European Portuguese
A Very Short Note on Existential Constructions
March 01 2007 A Very Short Note on Existential Constructions In Special Collection: CogNet Norbert Hornstein Norbert Hornstein University of Maryland, College Park Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Norbert Hornstein University of Maryland, College Park Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 Linguistic Inquiry (2007) 38 (2): 410–4…
Control in Icelandic and Theories of Control
This article examines a pervasive argument against a movement approach to control based on Icelandic concord facts. We show that the argument does not undermine the movement approach when the facts are considered in their entirety. The facts divide into two basic groups: instances of quirky Case assignment and instances of structural Case sharing. The former require some theoretical adjustments regarding multiply Case-marked NPs in order to be in…
The Virtues of Control as Movement
Control has played an important role in theoretical debates within the Minimalist Program. This is so because control implicates notions such as module,θ-role, the Last Resort nature of syntactic operations, movement, binding, chains, Case, complementation, and more.Hornstein (1999)has controversially claimed that control is a subspecies of movement. That is, control is just like familiar instances of raising, except that it involves movement int…
Letters to Language
Letters to Language Martin Haspelmath, Alan S. Kaye, Dr. Peter Forster, Joseph F. Eska, Don Ringe, Sam Epstein, Norbert Hornstein, and Mira Ariel [Correction] Language accepts letters from readers that briefly and succinctly respond to or comment upon either material published previously in the journal or issues deemed of importance to the field. The editor reserves the right to edit letters as needed. Brief replies from relevant parties are incl…
A Gap in the ECM Paradigm
July 01 2005 A Gap in the ECM Paradigm In Special Collection: CogNet Cedric Boeckx, Cedric Boeckx Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Norbert Hornstein Norbert Hornstein University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Cedric Boeckx Harvard University Norbert Hornstein University of Maryland Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: …
On eliminating d-structure
This paper provides a minimalist analysis of the binominal each phenomenon. The analysis incorporates key ideas behind Safir and Stowell's (1988) seminal paper but avoids the complications that this approach entails. Our proposal provides one more empirical argument for movement into θ-position, sideward movement, the primacy of movement over binding in matters of construal, and the virtues of a very derivational view of syntax. It is also consis…
Movement under Control
We examine the three categories of empirical argument that Landau (2003) puts forward against a movement theory of control (MTC): overgeneration cases, alleged arguments in favor of an MTC, and raising/control contrasts. We show that the problems cited either have plausible alternative analyses that leave the MTC unscathed or, in fact, are not nearly as dire for the MTC as Landau supposes. We conclude that the "standard" theory enjoys no obvious …
Reply to “Control Is Not Movement
In this reply we examine Culicover and Jackendoff's (2001) arguments against syntactic treatments of control, and against Hornstein 1999 in particular. We focus on three of their core arguments: (a) the syntactocentric view of control; (b) the control pattern found with promise; and (c) the violability of the Minimal Distance Principle. In all cases we contend that Culicover and Jackendoff's claims fail to undermine Hornstein's proposal
On Asymmetries Between Parasitic Gap and Across-the-board Constructions
Assuming that parasitic gaps (PGs) and across-the-board (ATB) gaps are derived through sideward movement (Nunes 1995, 2001; Hornstein 2001), this paper aims at explaining why ATB constructions are in general more permissive than PG constructions (Postal 1993). We argue that sideward movement is licensed only by Last Resort in PG constructions but is licensed by either Last Resort or the Parallelism Constraint in ATB constructions. The additional …
Resumption, Movement, and Derivational Economy
This article investigates the interaction between resumption and movement. Lebanese Arabic distinguishes between true resumption, where a pronoun or an epithet phrase is related to an Ā -antecedent via Bind, and apparent resumption, where the pronoun or the epithet phrase is related to its Ā -antecedent via Move. Only apparent resumption displays reconstruction effects for scope and binding. As resumptives, strong pronouns and epithet phrases can…
On A‐chains
Existentials, A-chains and reconstruction
This paper provides a new minimalist analysis of existential constructions that reconciles two salient properties: (i) the fact that the local relation between there and its associate mimics the locality involved in movement relations and (ii) the fact that the associate is interpreted where it sits. Assuming that A-chains can only have one visible link at LF, I argue that, due to certain properties of there, reconstruction into the foot of the a…
Movement and Control
Since the earliest days of generative grammar, control has been distinguished from raising: the latter the product of movement operations, the former the result of construal processes relating a PRO to an antecedent. This article argues that obligatory control structures are also formed by movement. Minimalism makes this approach viable by removing D-Structure as a grammatical level. Implementing the suggestion, however, requires eliminating the …
Resumption, Movement, and Derivational Economy
This article investigates the interaction between resumption and movement. Lebanese Arabic distinguishes between true resumption, where a pronoun or an epithet phrase is related to an Ā -antecedent via Bind, and apparent resumption, where the pronoun or the epithet phrase is related to its Ā -antecedent via Move. Only apparent resumption displays reconstruction effects for scope and binding. As resumptives, strong pronouns and epithet phrases can…
Movement under Control
We examine the three categories of empirical argument that Landau (2003) puts forward against a movement theory of control (MTC): overgeneration cases, alleged arguments in favor of an MTC, and raising/control contrasts. We show that the problems cited either have plausible alternative analyses that leave the MTC unscathed or, in fact, are not nearly as dire for the MTC as Landau supposes. We conclude that the "standard" theory enjoys no obvious …
Movement and Chains
A line of thought within the Minimalist Program proceeds as follows: the objects interpreted at the interface determine the units of syntactic manipulation. This paper argues that chains are not proper units for determining relative quantifier scope and so should not be thought of as proper syntactic objects. This conclusion is buttressed by the claim that once θ-features are allowed into the theory, a conclusion independently required once contr…
Reply to “Control Is Not Movement
In this reply we examine Culicover and Jackendoff's (2001) arguments against syntactic treatments of control, and against Hornstein 1999 in particular. We focus on three of their core arguments: (a) the syntactocentric view of control; (b) the control pattern found with promise; and (c) the violability of the Minimal Distance Principle. In all cases we contend that Culicover and Jackendoff's claims fail to undermine Hornstein's proposal
As Time Goes By
How do humans acquire, at a very early age and from fragmentary and haphazard data, the complex patterns of their native language? This is the logical problem of language acquisition, and it is the question that directs the search for an innate universal grammar. As Time Goes By extends the search by proposing a theory of natural-language tense that will be responsive to the problem of language acquisition. The clearly written discussion proceeds…
Predication and Pro
The comprehensive theory of predication developed by Williams (1980, 1982, 1983) subsumes a wide range of phenomena, but contains some internal problems. An alternative account is presented here which does not postulate a distinct level of Predicate Structure, but assumes that pro may be governed. This entails new analyses of small clauses and control phenomena, and leads to a revision of the conditions under which empty elements may occur
The Virtues of Control as Movement
Control has played an important role in theoretical debates within the Minimalist Program. This is so because control implicates notions such as module,θ-role, the Last Resort nature of syntactic operations, movement, binding, chains, Case, complementation, and more.Hornstein (1999)has controversially claimed that control is a subspecies of movement. That is, control is just like familiar instances of raising, except that it involves movement int…
On Asymmetries Between Parasitic Gap and Across-the-board Constructions
Assuming that parasitic gaps (PGs) and across-the-board (ATB) gaps are derived through sideward movement (Nunes 1995, 2001; Hornstein 2001), this paper aims at explaining why ATB constructions are in general more permissive than PG constructions (Postal 1993). We argue that sideward movement is licensed only by Last Resort in PG constructions but is licensed by either Last Resort or the Parallelism Constraint in ATB constructions. The additional …
Control in Icelandic and Theories of Control
This article examines a pervasive argument against a movement approach to control based on Icelandic concord facts. We show that the argument does not undermine the movement approach when the facts are considered in their entirety. The facts divide into two basic groups: instances of quirky Case assignment and instances of structural Case sharing. The former require some theoretical adjustments regarding multiply Case-marked NPs in order to be in…
A Puzzle About P-Stranding and a Possible Solution
October 01 2010 A Puzzle About P-Stranding and a Possible Solution In Special Collection: CogNet Alex Drummond, Alex Drummond University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Norbert Hornstein, Norbert Hornstein University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Howard Lasnik Howard Lasnik University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Goog…
Icelandic Control Really Is A-Movement
This article discusses the challenges that Bobaljik and Landau (2009) pose to Boeckx and Hornstein's (2006) movement-based analysis of control in Icelandic. We show in detail that contrary to what Bobaljik and Landau claim, the movement theory of control (with a modification to accommodate quirky Case, a specialty of Icelandic) makes the right empirical cuts regarding the issues they raise, namely, (a) the differences in Case agreement between co…
Perception and Causative Structures in English and European Portuguese
A Gap in the ECM Paradigm
July 01 2005 A Gap in the ECM Paradigm In Special Collection: CogNet Cedric Boeckx, Cedric Boeckx Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Norbert Hornstein Norbert Hornstein University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Cedric Boeckx Harvard University Norbert Hornstein University of Maryland Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: …
A bound pronoun in modern Greek
On eliminating d-structure
This paper provides a minimalist analysis of the binominal each phenomenon. The analysis incorporates key ideas behind Safir and Stowell's (1988) seminal paper but avoids the complications that this approach entails. Our proposal provides one more empirical argument for movement into θ-position, sideward movement, the primacy of movement over binding in matters of construal, and the virtues of a very derivational view of syntax. It is also consis…
On A‐chains
Knowledge of Language
Why do we know so much more than we have evidence for in certain areas, and so much less in others? In tackling these questions--Plato's and Orwell's problem--Chomsky again demonstrates his unequalled capacity to integrate vast amounts of material...A clear introduction to current thinking on grammatical theory. David W. Lightfoot, University of Maryland I feel that it is his most persuasive defense of the idea that the study of linguistic struct…
Interpreting quantification in natural language
The Primary/Secondary Quality Distinction
Recent interpretations of Locke's primary/secondary quality distinction have tended to emphasize Locke's relationship to the corpuscularian science of his time, especially to that of Boyle. Although this trend may have corrected the unfortunate tendency to view Locke in isolation from his scientific contemporaries, it nevertheless has resulted in some over- simplifications and distortions of Locke's general enterprise. As everyone now agrees, Loc…
Restructuring and Interpretation in a T-Model
Language, Sense, and Nonsense
Predication and Pro
The comprehensive theory of predication developed by Williams (1980, 1982, 1983) subsumes a wide range of phenomena, but contains some internal problems. An alternative account is presented here which does not postulate a distinct level of Predicate Structure, but assumes that pro may be governed. This entails new analyses of small clauses and control phenomena, and leads to a revision of the conditions under which empty elements may occur
Knowledge of Language
Why do we know so much more than we have evidence for in certain areas, and so much less in others? In tackling these questions--Plato's and Orwell's problem--Chomsky again demonstrates his unequalled capacity to integrate vast amounts of material...A clear introduction to current thinking on grammatical theory. David W. Lightfoot, University of Maryland I feel that it is his most persuasive defense of the idea that the study of linguistic struct…
The Necessity of Lf
As Time Goes By
How do humans acquire, at a very early age and from fragmentary and haphazard data, the complex patterns of their native language? This is the logical problem of language acquisition, and it is the question that directs the search for an innate universal grammar. As Time Goes By extends the search by proposing a theory of natural-language tense that will be responsive to the problem of language acquisition. The clearly written discussion proceeds…
A primer on PRO (and other empty categories)
A bound pronoun in modern Greek
Logical form
Movement and Chains
A line of thought within the Minimalist Program proceeds as follows: the objects interpreted at the interface determine the units of syntactic manipulation. This paper argues that chains are not proper units for determining relative quantifier scope and so should not be thought of as proper syntactic objects. This conclusion is buttressed by the claim that once θ-features are allowed into the theory, a conclusion independently required once contr…
Movement and Control
Since the earliest days of generative grammar, control has been distinguished from raising: the latter the product of movement operations, the former the result of construal processes relating a PRO to an antecedent. This article argues that obligatory control structures are also formed by movement. Minimalism makes this approach viable by removing D-Structure as a grammatical level. Implementing the suggestion, however, requires eliminating the …
On A‐chains
Existentials, A-chains and reconstruction
This paper provides a new minimalist analysis of existential constructions that reconciles two salient properties: (i) the fact that the local relation between there and its associate mimics the locality involved in movement relations and (ii) the fact that the associate is interpreted where it sits. Assuming that A-chains can only have one visible link at LF, I argue that, due to certain properties of there, reconstruction into the foot of the a…
Resumption, Movement, and Derivational Economy
This article investigates the interaction between resumption and movement. Lebanese Arabic distinguishes between true resumption, where a pronoun or an epithet phrase is related to an Ā -antecedent via Bind, and apparent resumption, where the pronoun or the epithet phrase is related to its Ā -antecedent via Move. Only apparent resumption displays reconstruction effects for scope and binding. As resumptives, strong pronouns and epithet phrases can…
On Asymmetries Between Parasitic Gap and Across-the-board Constructions
Assuming that parasitic gaps (PGs) and across-the-board (ATB) gaps are derived through sideward movement (Nunes 1995, 2001; Hornstein 2001), this paper aims at explaining why ATB constructions are in general more permissive than PG constructions (Postal 1993). We argue that sideward movement is licensed only by Last Resort in PG constructions but is licensed by either Last Resort or the Parallelism Constraint in ATB constructions. The additional …
Reply to “Control Is Not Movement
In this reply we examine Culicover and Jackendoff's (2001) arguments against syntactic treatments of control, and against Hornstein 1999 in particular. We focus on three of their core arguments: (a) the syntactocentric view of control; (b) the control pattern found with promise; and (c) the violability of the Minimal Distance Principle. In all cases we contend that Culicover and Jackendoff's claims fail to undermine Hornstein's proposal
Movement under Control
We examine the three categories of empirical argument that Landau (2003) puts forward against a movement theory of control (MTC): overgeneration cases, alleged arguments in favor of an MTC, and raising/control contrasts. We show that the problems cited either have plausible alternative analyses that leave the MTC unscathed or, in fact, are not nearly as dire for the MTC as Landau supposes. We conclude that the "standard" theory enjoys no obvious …
Letters to Language
Letters to Language Martin Haspelmath, Alan S. Kaye, Dr. Peter Forster, Joseph F. Eska, Don Ringe, Sam Epstein, Norbert Hornstein, and Mira Ariel [Correction] Language accepts letters from readers that briefly and succinctly respond to or comment upon either material published previously in the journal or issues deemed of importance to the field. The editor reserves the right to edit letters as needed. Brief replies from relevant parties are incl…
A Gap in the ECM Paradigm
July 01 2005 A Gap in the ECM Paradigm In Special Collection: CogNet Cedric Boeckx, Cedric Boeckx Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Norbert Hornstein Norbert Hornstein University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Cedric Boeckx Harvard University Norbert Hornstein University of Maryland Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: …
On eliminating d-structure
This paper provides a minimalist analysis of the binominal each phenomenon. The analysis incorporates key ideas behind Safir and Stowell's (1988) seminal paper but avoids the complications that this approach entails. Our proposal provides one more empirical argument for movement into θ-position, sideward movement, the primacy of movement over binding in matters of construal, and the virtues of a very derivational view of syntax. It is also consis…
Control in Icelandic and Theories of Control
This article examines a pervasive argument against a movement approach to control based on Icelandic concord facts. We show that the argument does not undermine the movement approach when the facts are considered in their entirety. The facts divide into two basic groups: instances of quirky Case assignment and instances of structural Case sharing. The former require some theoretical adjustments regarding multiply Case-marked NPs in order to be in…
The Virtues of Control as Movement
Control has played an important role in theoretical debates within the Minimalist Program. This is so because control implicates notions such as module,θ-role, the Last Resort nature of syntactic operations, movement, binding, chains, Case, complementation, and more.Hornstein (1999)has controversially claimed that control is a subspecies of movement. That is, control is just like familiar instances of raising, except that it involves movement int…
A Very Short Note on Existential Constructions
March 01 2007 A Very Short Note on Existential Constructions In Special Collection: CogNet Norbert Hornstein Norbert Hornstein University of Maryland, College Park Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Norbert Hornstein University of Maryland, College Park Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 Linguistic Inquiry (2007) 38 (2): 410–4…
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