Guglielmo Cinque - On Linearization: Toward a Restrictive Theory

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On Linearization

Toward a Restrictive Theory

Guglielmo Cinque

The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England

2023 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Cinque, Guglielmo, author.

Title: On linearization : toward a restrictive theory / Guglielmo Cinque.

Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2023. | Series: Linguistic inquiry monographs | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022016358 | ISBN 9780262544955 (paperback) | ISBN 9780262372879 (epub) | ISBN 9780262372862 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Grammar, Comparative and generalWord order.

Classification: LCC P295 .C55 2023 | DDC 415dc23/eng/20220502

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022016358

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I wish to thank David Adger, Boban Arsenijevi, Paola Beninc, Noam Chomsky, Yoshio Endo, Alessandra Giorgi, Alex Grosu, Roland Hinterhlzl, Richard Kayne, Jaklin Kornfilt, Iliyana Krapova, Yuri Lander, Audrey Li, Rita Manzini, David Peter Medeiros, Andrea Moro, Nicola Munaro, Cecilia Poletto, Andrew Radford, Luigi Rizzi, Ian Roberts, Joachim Sabel, Emanuela Sanfelici, Ur Shlonsky, Dominique Sportiche, Stanislao Zomp, and in particular Peter Svenonius and two anonymous referees for their helpful observations in written or oral form. None of them should be taken to share the conclusions reached here. Part of this work was initiated at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, in the spring of 2020. I thank the students of my Problems in Syntax class, where I presented part of this material, and eljko Bokovi, Andrea Calabrese, William Snyder, Adrian Stegovec, and Yuta Tatsumi for discussions relating to various parts of this work.

Im also grateful for the questions and comments I received from the participants of the online reading group seminars of the University of Padua (Cecilia Poletto, Nicola DAntuono, Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Giacomo Presotto, Emanuela Sanfelici, Yangyu Sun, Caterina Tasinato) and the University of Graz (Boban Arsenijevi, Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina, Predrag Kovaevi, Stefan Milosavljevi, Petra Mima, Stefano Quaglia, and Marko Simonovi), as well as to Aquiles Tescari Neto, Sandra Quarezemin, and the audience of my online talk in June 2021 at the colloquium series Zoom na Cartografia, organized by LaCaSa (Cartographic Syntax Laboratory) at the University of Campinas and NEG (Grammar Studies Center) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and to the audiences of an online talk on Cartography and Linear Order given at the 4th International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography at Beijing Language and Culture University on October 29th 2021, and at the University of Geneva on November 30th 2021.