A Unified Theory of Verbal and Nominal Projections [Paperback]

Syntactically speaking, it has long been known that noun phrases are parallel to clauses in many respects. While most syntactic theories incorporate this principle, nouns have generally been regarded as inferior to verbs in terms of their licensing abilities, and nominal projections have been regarded as less complex than verbal projections in terms of the number of functional categories that they contain. Ogawa, however, argues that clauses and noun phrases are perfectly parallel. This book provides a unified theory of clauses and noun phrases, ultimately helping to simplify numerous thorny issues in the syntax/morphology interface.

Chapter One: Introduction and Theoretical Assumptions
1.1. The Issues
1.2. The Minimalist Framework
1.2.1. The Computational Component
1.2.2. Prase Structure Theory
1.2.3. 0-theory
1.2.4. Movement and Checking Theory
1.2.5. Word Order and the LCA
1.3. Outline of the Book
1.4. The Limits of Unification
Chapter Two: Verb Raising and Null Complementizers
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Null Complementizers
2.2.1. A Condtion on Null Affixes
2.2.2. Null Complementizers as Null Affixes
2.2.3. Some Notes on Overt Complementizers
2.3. Null Complementizers in Finite Clausal Complements
2.3.1. Overt Verb Raising and Null Complementizers
2.3.2.Tell-class Verbs and iSuggest-class Verbs
2.4. Further Cross-linguistic Data
2.4.1. Chinese
2.4.2. Romance Languages
2.4.3. Germanic Languages
2.4.4. Japanese
2.4.5. Celtic Languages
2.4.6. Arabic Languages
2.4.7. Modern Greek: A Balkan Language
2.4.8. Hungarian: A Finno-Ugric Language
2.4.9. Edo: A Nigerian Language
2.4.10. A Summary
2.5. Null Cs in the Complement of Derived Nominals: A Sketch
2.6. Null Cs in ECM and Control Complements
2.7.Wh-Movement and Control Complements
2.7.1. Null Cs in Interrogative Clauses
2.7.2. Null Cs in Complement ofTough