Transitivity failures are failures in the analysis

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2019.v15n3a28606

Keywords:

Syntactic Cartography, Adverbs, Functional Heads, Transitivity, Cinque’s Hierarchy.

Abstract

The text presents a set of data offered by Cinque’s (1999) cartographic theory critics. These data involve what Cinque’s critics call “transitivity failures in the functional sequence”. After a brief explanation of the main methodology used by Syntactic Cartography to arrive at its functional hierarchies, we will present some sentences involving apparent violations of the IP-adverbial hierarchies and some counterarguments to the criticisms made through these data. I will argue that such cases are far from serving as counterarguments to the IP-cartographic hierarchies. They actually illustrate flaws in the analysis of cartography critics.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2019.v15n3a28606

Author Biography

Aquiles Tescari Neto, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP

Professor do 'Departamento de Linguística', do Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP. Doutor em "Scienze del Linguaggio" (Ciências da Linguagem) pela Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Itália. Obteve o título de Mestre em Linguística pelo Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Licenciou-se em Letras (português e italiano) pela UNESP/São José do Rio Preto. Suas áreas de interesse são: Sintaxe Gerativa das Línguas Naturais, Programa Cartográfico, categorias funcionais da oração, ensino de gramática, estrutura funcional da sentença, tipologia linguística e português brasileiro.

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2019-12-30

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Vol. 15 No. 3 (2019): Functional projections, cartography and nanosyntax

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