The Syntax of English and Polish Coordinate Structures

Anna Prażmowska
ISBN: 978-83-8061-899-2
Stron: 294
Format: B5
Rok wydania: 2020


CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Properties and Syntactic Structure of English Coordination
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Properties of English coordination
1.2.1. The English coordinator and
1.2.2. The issue of coordinate subject-verb agreement in English
1.2.3. Coordination of unlike categories
1.3. The structure and derivation of coordination
1.3.1. Binary-branching structure of coordination
1.3.2. Complementation vs. adjunction
1.4. Chapter summary

2 Properties and Syntactic Structure of Polish Coordination
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Properties of Polish coordination
2.2.1. Distinctive properties of Polish coordinate constructions
2.2.2. Distinctive properties of Polish coordinators
2.2.3. Comitative constructions
2.3. Symmetries and asymmetries in the structure of Polish coordination
2.3.1. Structural asymmetries of Polish coordination as a binary-branching structure
2.3.2. Structural symmetries of Polish coordination - ATB questions
2.4. Chapter summary

3 Verbal Agreement with Polish Coordinate Subjects
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Patterns of verbal agreement with Polish coordinate subjects
3.2.1. Agreement patterns in the SV word order
3.2.2. Agreement patterns in the VS order and with an interposed verb
3.2.3. Interim summary and further discussion
3.3. Gender resolution in full agreement with coordinate subjects in Polish
3.3.1. Animacy features in gender resolution
3.3.2. A revision of gender resolution rules for Polish
3.3.3. Interim summary
3.4. Syntactic analysis of coordinate subject-verb agreement in Polish
3.4.1. Recent analyses proposed for some Slavic languages
3.4.2. Derivation of verbal agreement with coordinate subjects in Polish
3.5. Chapter summary

4 Summary and Conclusions

References