Diagnosis Is An Essential Part Of Scientific Research. It Refers To The Process Of Identifying A Phenomenon, Property, Or Condition On The Basis Of Certain Signs And By The Use Of Various Diagnostic Procedures. This Book Is The First Ever To Consider The Use Of Diagnostics In Syntactic Research And Focuses On The Five Core Domains Of Natural Language Syntax - Ellipsis, Agreement, Anaphora, Phrasal Movement, And Head Movement. Each Empirical Domain Is Considered In Turn From The Perspectives Of Syntax, Syntax At The Interfaces, Neuropsycholinguistics, And Language Diversity. Drawing On The Expertise Of 20 Leading Scholars And Their Empirically Rich Data, The Book Presents Current Thoughts On, And Practical Answers To, The Question: What Are The Diagnostic Signs, Techniques And Procedures That Can Be Used To Analyse Natural Language Syntax? It Will Interest Linguists, Including Formalists, Typologists, Psycholinguists And Neurolinguists. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1.syntactic Diagnostics In The Study Of Human Language / Norbert Corver -- Pt. I Head Movement -- 2.head Movement As A Phonological Operation / Christer Platzack -- 3.getting Morphemes In Order: Merger, Affixation, And Head Movement / Heidi Harley -- 4.verb Movement To C: From Agrammatic Aphasia To Syntactic Analysis / Naama Friedmann -- 5.in Defence Of Head Movement: Evidence From Bantu / Jochen Zeller -- 6.diagnosing Head Movement / Heidi Harley -- Pt. Ii Phrasal Movement -- 7.phrasal Movement And Its Discontents: Diseases And Diagnoses / David Pesetsky -- 8.diagnosing Covert Movement: The Duke Of York And Reconstruction / Winfried Lechner -- 9.arguments For Long Distance Movement In Long Distance Questions In Child Language / Hamida Demirdache -- 10.diagnosing Covert A Movement / Eric Potsdam -- 11.diagnosing Xp-movement / Winfried Lechner -- Pt. Iii Agreement -- 12.the Syntactic Relations Behind Agreement / Sandra Chung -- 13.gender Confusion / Ora Matushansky -- 14.agreement In The Production Of Subject And Object Wh-questions / Maria Teresa Guasti -- 15.agreement Unified: Arabic / Jamal Ouhalla -- 16.diagnosing Agreement / Ora Matushansky -- Pt. Iv Anaphora -- 17.identifying Anaphoric Dependencies / Martin Everaert -- 18.condition B / Christopher Tancredi -- 19.a Processing View On Agrammatism / Sergio Baauw -- 20.tagalog Anaphora / Norvin Richards -- 21.diagnosing Anaphora / Martin Everaert -- Pt. V Ellipsis -- 22.polarity Items Under Ellipsis / Jason Merchant -- 23.syntactic Diagnostics For Extraction Of Focus From Ellipsis Site / Susanne Winkler -- 24.a Recycling Approach To Processing Ellipsis / Lyn Frazier -- 25.what Sluicing Can Do, What It Can't, And In Which Language: On The Cross-linguistic Syntax Of Ellipsis / Aniko Liptak -- 26.diagnosing Ellipsis / Jason Merchant. Edited By Lisa Lai-shen Cheng And Norbert Corver. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [543]-590) And Indexes. Cover 1 Contents 6 General Preface 9 Notes on Contributors 10 List of Abbreviations and Symbols 15 1. Syntactic Diagnostics in the Study of Human Language 20 PART I: HEAD MOVEMENT 38 2. Head Movement as a Phonological Operation 40 3. Getting Morphemes in Order: Merger, Affixation, and Head Movement 63 4. Verb Movement to C: From Agrammatic Aphasia to Syntactic Analysis 94 5. In Defence of Head Movement: Evidence from Bantu 106 6. Diagnosing Head Movement 131 PART II: PHRASAL MOVEMENT 140 7. Phrasal Movement and Its Discontents: Diseases and Diagnoses 142 8. Diagnosing Covert Movement: The Duke of York and Reconstruction 177 9. Arguments for Long Distance Movement in Long Distance Questions in Child Language 209 10. Diagnosing Covert A-Movement 229 11. Diagnosing XP-Movement 254 PART III: AGREEMENT 268 12. The Syntactic Relations behind Agreement 270 13. Gender Confusion 290 14. Agreement in the Production of Subject and Object Wh-Questions 314 15. Agreement Unified: Arabic 333 16. Diagnosing Agreement 353 PART IV: ANAPHORA 358 17. Identifying Anaphoric Dependencies 360 18. Condition B 390 19. A Processing View on Agrammatism 416 20. Tagalog Anaphora 431 21. Diagnosing Anaphora 453 PART V: ELLIPSIS 458 22. Polarity Items under Ellipsis 460 23. Syntactic Diagnostics for Extraction of Focus from Ellipsis Site 482 24. A Recycling Approach to Processing Ellipsis 504 25. What Sluicing Can Do, What It Can’t, and in Which Language: On the Cross-Linguistic Syntax of Ellipsis 521 26. Diagnosing Ellipsis 556 References 562 Language Index 610 A 610 B 610 C 610 D 610 G 610 H 610 I 610 K 610 L 610 N 610 R 610 S 610 T 610 Z 610 Subject Index 611 A 611 B 611 C 611 D 612 E 612 F 612 G 612 H 613 I 613 L 613 M 613 N 613 O 613 P 613 Q 614 R 614 S 614 T 614 U 614 V 614 W 615 Y 615 Drawing on the expertise of over 20 leading scholars and their empirically rich data, this book presents current thoughts on, and practical answers to, the question: What are the diagnostic signs, techniques and procedures that can be used to analyse natural language syntax?
