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Syntactic architecture and its consequences II Between syntax and morphology Edited by András Bárány Theresa Biberauer Jamie Douglas Sten Vikner language Open Generative Syntax 10 science press Open Generative Syntax Editors: Elena Anagnostopoulou, Mark Baker, Roberta D’Alessandro, David Pesetsky, Susi Wurmbrand In this series: 1. Bailey, Laura R. & Michelle Sheehan (eds.). Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure. 2. Sheehan, Michelle & Laura R. Bailey (eds.). Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure. 3. BacskaiAtkari, Julia. Deletion phenomena in comparative constructions: English comparatives in a crosslinguistic perspective. 4. Franco, Ludovico, Mihaela Marchis Moreno & Matthew Reeve (eds.). Agreement, case and locality in the nominal and verbal domains. 5. Bross, Fabian. The clausal syntax of German Sign Language: A cartographic approach. 6. Smith, Peter W., Johannes Mursell & Katharina Hartmann (eds.). Agree to Agree: Agreement in the Minimalist Programme. 7. Pineda, Anna & Jaume Mateu (eds.). Dative constructions in Romance and beyond. 8. Kastner, Itamar. Voice at the interfaces: The syntax, semantics, and morphology of the Hebrew verb. 9. Bárány, András, Theresa Biberauer, Jamie Douglas & Sten Vikner (eds.). Syntactic architecture and its consequences I: Syntax inside the grammar. 10. Bárány, András, Theresa Biberauer, Jamie Douglas & Sten Vikner (eds.). Syntactic architecture and its consequences II: Between syntax and morphology. ISSN: 25687336 Syntactic architecture and its consequences II Between syntax and morphology Edited by András Bárány Theresa Biberauer Jamie Douglas Sten Vikner language science press Bárány, András, Theresa Biberauer, Jamie Douglas & Sten Vikner (ed.). 2020. Syntactic architecture and its consequences II: Between syntax and morphology (Open Generative Syntax 10). Berlin: Language Science Press. This title can be downloaded at: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/276 © 2020, the authors Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ISBN: 978-3-96110-288-4 (Digital) 978-3-96110-289-1 (Hardcover) ISSN: 2568-7336 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4081038 Source code available from www.github.com/langsci/276 Collaborative reading: paperhive.org/documents/remote?type=langsci&id=276 Cover and concept of design: Ulrike Harbort Typesetting: András Bárány, Jamie Douglas, Felix Kopecky Proofreading: Amir Ghorbanpour, Amy Lam, Andreas Hölzl, Bev Erasmus, Christian Döhler, George Walkden, Ikmi Nur Oktavianti, Jeroen van de Weijer, Jessica Brown, Lachlan Mackenzie, Madeline Myers, Jean Nitzke, Radek Šimík, Teodora Mihoc, Tom Bossuyt Fonts: Libertinus, Arimo, DejaVu Sans Mono, Source Han Serif Typesetting software:Ǝ X LATEX Language Science Press xHain Grünberger Str. 16 10243 Berlin, Germany langsci-press.org Storage and cataloguing done by FU Berlin You say you want a revolution Well you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it’s evolution Well you know We all want to change the world Don’t you know it’s gonna be alright — The Beatles, Revolution 1 Contents Introduction András Bárány, Theresa Biberauer, Jamie Douglas & Sten Vikner v I Architectural issues in morphosyntax 1 Rethinking universality Jeffrey Watumull & Noam Chomsky 3 2 Reconciling linguistic theories on comparative variation with an evolutionarily plausible language faculty Kleanthes K. Grohmann & Evelina Leivada 25 3 Rethinking remerge: Merge, movement and music Hedde Zeijlstra 43 4 Life without word classes: On a new approach to categorization István Kenesei 67 5 The matrix: Merge and the typology of syntactic categories Andrea Moro 81 6 On a difference between English and Greek and its theoretical significance George Tsoulas 93 7 Rethinking linearization Kyle Johnson 113 8 Rethinking the reach of categorical constraints: The final-over-final constraint and combinatorial variability Neil Myler 137 Contents 9 Rethinking restructuring Gereon Müller 149 10 Rethinking phrase structure Howard Lasnik & Zach Stone 191 11 Strong and weak “strict cyclicity” in phase theory Ángel J. Gallego 207 12 On the coordinate structure constraint and the adjunct condition Željko Bošković 227 13 Re-thinking re-categorization: Is that really a complementizer? Ellen Brandner 259 II Structural issues in morphosyntax 14 Types of relative pronouns Evangelia Daskalaki 277 15 Rethinking relatives Jamie Douglas 297 16 V3 in urban youth varieties of Dutch Marieke Meelen, Khalid Mourigh & Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng 327 17 Rethinking passives: The canonical goal passive in Dutch and its dialects Liliane Haegeman 357 18 Extraordinary second-position effects Moreno Mitrović 369 19 Person splits in Romance: Implications for parameter theory M. Rita Manzini & Leonardo M. Savoia 403 20 High and low phases in Norwegian nominals: Evidence from ellipsis, psychologically distal demonstratives and psychologically proximal possessives Kari Kinn 435 ii 21 Rethinking microvariation in Romance demonstrative systems Adam Ledgeway 451 22 Preliminary notes on the Merge position of deictic, anaphoric, distal and proximal demonstratives Guglielmo Cinque 491 Indexes 505 iii Introduction András Bárány Bielefeld University Theresa Biberauer University of Cambridge, Stellenbosch University, University of the West Cape Jamie Douglas University of Cambridge Sten Vikner Aarhus University The three volumes of Syntactic architecture and its consequences present contri- butions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in lin- guistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between descrip- tive and explanatory adequacy which has long animated generative linguistics and which continues to grow thanks to the increasing amount and diversity of data available to us. As the three volumes show, such data from a large number of understudied languages as well as diatopic and diachronic varieties of well- known languages are being used to test previously stated hypotheses, develop novel ideas and expand on our understanding of linguistic theory. The volumes feature a combination of squib- and regular-length discussions addressing research questions with foci which range from micro to macro in scale. We hope that together, they provide a valuable overview of issues that are currently being addressed in generative linguistics, broadly defined, allow- ing readers to make novel analogies and connections across a range of different research strands. The chapters in Volume 1, Syntax inside the grammar, and Vol- ume 3, Inside syntax, address research topics both at the syntactic interfaces and András Bárány, Theresa Biberauer, Jamie Douglas & Sten Vikner. 2020. Introduction. In András Bárány, Theresa Biberauer, Jamie Douglas & Sten Vikner (eds.), Syntactic architecture and its consequences II: Between syntax and morphology, v–vii. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4280625 András Bárány, Theresa Biberauer, Jamie Douglas & Sten Vikner in syntax proper, such as language change, complexity, and variation, as well as alignment types, case, agreement, and the syntax of null elements. The contributions to the present, second volume, Perspectives from morphosyn- tax, address research questions and developments in morphosyntax. The volume is divided into two parts, dealing with architectural (Part I) and structural issues in morphosyntax (Part II). The chapters in Part I, Architectural issues in morphosyntax, take on classic issues in grammar and provide new perspectives on questions such as univer- sality and variation (Watumull & Chomsky), language evolution and variation (Grohmann & Leivada), as well as the architectural underpinnings of recent syn- tactic theory. These involve the role of the structure-building operation Merge (Zeijlstra; Moro) as well as the structure-removing operation Remove (Müller), and cross-linguistic questions relating to labelling (Tsoulas), the nature of lin- earisation (Johnson), phases and cyclicity (Gallego), phrase structure (Lasnik & Stone), and constraints on extraction from conjuncts and adjuncts (Bošković). Myler’s chapter explores how formal syntax can make predictions about surface frequencies in word order variation, while the age-old question of lexical and syntactic categories is addressed from different perspectives in the chapters by Brandner, Kenesei, and Moro. Part II, Structural issues in morphosyntax, starts with chapters reconsidering properties of relative pronouns and relative clauses (Daskalaki; Douglas). The following chapters deal with second-position and third-position effects in con- stituent order (Mitrović; Meelen, Mourigh & Cheng). Several contributions deal with the structure of and microvariation in noun phrases, for example, with re- spect to demonstratives (Cinque; Ledgeway; Kinn), and the properties and syn- tactic representation of person splits in Romance (Manzini and Savoia), as well as microvariation in passives in varieties of Dutch (Haegeman). Taken together, then, the contributions to this volume, many of which have clearly been influenced and inspired by Roberts (2010; 2012), Roberts & Roussou (2003), Roberts & Holmberg (2010), Biberauer & Roberts (2012; 2015), and Biber- auer et al. (2014) give the reader a sense of current research into morphosyntax and morphosyntactic variation. References Biberauer, Theresa, Anders Holmberg & Ian Roberts. 2014. A syntactic universal and its consequences.