This chapter examines the predictions of Biberauer, Holmberg & Roberts’s (2007, 2008) Final-over-Final Constraint/FOFC for grammatical change and borrowing. As a putatively invariant syntactic principle, FOFC excludes the synchronic possibility of head-final phrases dominating categorially alike head-initial phrases. For diachrony, FOFC predicts certain word-order changes to be impossible, whether contact is involved or not: specifically, head-final to head-initial change is predicted to proceed top-down, whereas the reverse change should proceed bottom-up. Case studies from the history of English, Afrikaans and French seem to support the first of these predictions. Furthermore, we show on the basis of data from South Asian languages, that the presence of a phrase-initial head blocks the borrowing of a higher phrase-final head, thereby avoiding a FOFC-violation.
2012. “Lasnik‐Effects” and String‐Vacuous ATB Movement. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 169 ff.
Biberauer, Theresa, Anders Holmberg & Ian Roberts
2014. A Syntactic Universal and Its Consequences. Linguistic Inquiry 45:2 ► pp. 169 ff.
Biberauer, Theresa & Ian Roberts
2017. Parameter Setting. In The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax, ► pp. 134 ff.
Bošković, Željko
2012. Don't Feed Your Movements When You Shift Your Objects. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 245 ff.
Bury, Dirk & Hiroyuki Uchida
2012. Constituent Structure Sets II. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 19 ff.
Citko, Barbara
2012. A Parallel Merge Solution to the Merchant/Johnson Paradox. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 44 ff.
Epstein, Samuel David, Hisatsugu Kitahara & T. Daniel Seely
2012. Structure Building That Can't Be. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 253 ff.
Gračanin‐Yuksek, Martina
2012. Clitic Placement and Multidominance. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 93 ff.
Hein, Johannes & Andrew Murphy
2022. VP-Nominalization and the Final-over-Final Condition. Linguistic Inquiry 53:2 ► pp. 337 ff.
Lahne, Antje
2012. Specificity‐driven Syntactic Derivation. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 271 ff.
Lechner, Winfried
2012. Structure Building From Below: More on Survive and Covert Movement. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 297 ff.
Miyamoto, Yoichi
2012. On Transparent Adjuncts in Japanese. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 330 ff.
Sheehan, Michelle L.
2013. Some Implications of a Copy Theory of Labeling. Syntax 16:4 ► pp. 362 ff.
Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria & Vidal Valmala
2012. Ways of Structure Building,
Vries, Mark de
2012. Unconventional Mergers. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 143 ff.
Willis, David
2017. Endogenous and Exogenous Theories of Syntactic Change. In The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax, ► pp. 491 ff.
ZEIJLSTRA, HEDDE
2023. FOFC and what left–right asymmetries may tell us about syntactic structure building. Journal of Linguistics 59:1 ► pp. 179 ff.
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2012. Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 424 ff.
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2012. Notes on Contributors. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. xiii ff.
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2012. Copyright Page. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. vi ff.
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2012. Abbreviations. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. xvii ff.
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2012. General Preface. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. xi ff.
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