Putting Adpositions in Place : Sortal Domains and PPs in Japanese.

Intro -- Putting Adpositions in Place -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Preliminaries -- 1.2 Theoretical background -- 1.2.1 The Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995, 2005, 2008) -- 1.2.2 The Cartography of syntactic structures (Cinque 1999, 2006) -- 1.2.3 The Sortal domains (Svenonius and Ramchand 2014) -- 1.3 Overview -- Chapter 2. Analyzing PPs: Previous proposals on preposition ordering -- 2.1 Larson (1988) -- 2.2 Pesetsky (1995) -- 2.3 Barbiers (1995) -- 2.4 Nilsen (1998) -- 2.5 Ernst (2002) -- 2.6 Schweikert (2005) -- 2.6.1 Quantifier scope test -- 2.6.2 Informational focus test -- 2.6.3 Pair-list reading test -- 2.7 Cinque (2006) -- 2.8 Summary -- Chapter 3. The hierarchy of PPs in Japanese -- 3.1 Modifier postpositional phrases in Japanese -- 3.1.1 Difference between modifiers and arguments -- 3.1.2 The list of modifier PPs under examination -- 3.2 The order of PPs in Japanese -- 3.2.1 Focus neutral order -- 3.2.2 Quantifier scope -- 3.2.3 Results of the tests -- 3.3 Unifying the hierarchies -- 3.3.1 Intermediate PP positions -- 3.3.2 Temporal and Locative -- 3.4 Summary -- Chapter 4. Mapping of PPs onto the Modal/Aspect field -- 4.1 Aspectual verbs -- 4.1.1 Bi-clausal approaches -- 4.1.2 Functional projection analysis -- 4.2 Interaction between aspectual verbs and PPs -- 4.2.1 Compositionality 'scope' -- 4.2.2 Temporal -- 4.2.3 Locative -- 4.2.4 Comitative -- 4.2.5 Reason -- 4.2.6 SourcePath -- 4.2.7 SourceControl -- 4.2.8 Goal -- 4.2.9 Instrumental/Means -- 4.2.10 Material -- 4.2.11 Manner -- 4.2.12 Summary -- 4.3 Aspect -- 4.3.1 Result/progressive aspect -- 4.3.2 Interaction between result/progressive aspect and PPs -- 4.4 Modals -- 4.4.1 Fine-grained modal types -- 4.4.2 Clearing the aspect positions in the modal field.

4.5 Interaction between modals and PPs -- 4.5.1 Temporal -- 4.5.2 Locative -- 4.5.3 Comitative -- 4.5.4 Instrumental/Means -- 4.6 Summary -- Chapter 5. Possible analysis -- 5.1 Comparing different approaches -- 5.2 Towards a new theory of modifier PPs -- 5.2.1 Movement analysis -- 5.2.2 Constraints on scope movement -- 5.3 Deriving the order among PPs -- 5.3.1 PPs in the event domain -- 5.3.2 PPs in the situation domain -- 5.3.3 Summary -- 5.4 Concluding remarks -- References -- Index.

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