In:Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte
Edited by Olga Fernández-Soriano, Elena Castroviejo Miró and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 239] 2017
► pp. 1–24
Introduction
Boundaries, phases and interfaces
Published online: 14 June 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.239.01cas
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.239.01cas
Article outline
- 1.Boundaries: cycles and phases
- 1.1Phases and grammatical theory
- 1.2The propositional nature of phases. From phases to interfaces
- 2.Syntax and its interfaces
- 2.1The Syntax-Phonology interface
- 2.2The Syntax-Semantics interface
- 2.3The Syntax-Discourse interface
- 2.4The Lexicon-Syntax interface
- 2.5The Syntax-Morphology interface
- 3.Interfaces meet phases (and the other way around)
- 3.1.The left periphery
- 3.2Parameters
- 3.3(In)Definiteness
- 3.4Tense, aspect, and modality
- 4.Structure of the book
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