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ALTERNATIVES TO CARTOGRAPHY GEBUNDEN

In the 1980s generative grammar recognized that functional material is able to project
syntactic structure in conformity with the X-bar-format. This insight soon led to a
considerable increase in the inventory of functional projections. The basic idea behind this
line of theorizing  which goes by the name of cartography  is that sentence structure can be
represented as a template of linearly ordered positions  each with their own syntactic and
semantic import.In recent years  however  a number of problems have been raised for this
approach. For example  certain combinations of syntactic elements cannot be linearly ordered.
In light of such problems a number of alternative accounts have been explored. Some of them
propose a new (often interface-related) trigger for movement  while others seek alternative
means of accounting for various word order patterns.These alternatives to cartography do not
form a homogeneous group  nor has there thus far been a forum where these ideas could be
compared and confronted with one another. This volume fills that gap. It offers a varied and
in-depth view on the position taken by a substantial number of researchers in the field today
on what is presumably one of the most hotly debated and controversial issues in present-day
generative grammar.

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