Michelle Sheehan, Theresa Biberauer, Ian Roberts, and Anders Holmberg. 2017.The Final-Over-Final Condition: A Syntactic Universal. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Pp. 446. $102.84 (softcover).

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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS-REVUE CANADIENNE DE LINGUISTIQUE Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1017/cnj.2020.24

Amer Ahmed

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The book under review puts forward a syntactic constraint called the final-over-final condition (FOFC), which is presented as a reflection of the asymmetry of the syntax of natural language. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the constraint. Chapter 2 provides empirical evidence for the constraint. Chapter 3 demonstrates the pervasiveness of the constraint across categories. Chapter 4 discusses the FOFC in relation to structure and linear order. Chapter 5 explores the hypothesis that the FOFC is a constraint on speech processing. Chapter 6 extends FOFC to adjuncts. Chapter 7 explores the idea that William’s Head-Final Filter (1982) might be subsumed under the FOFC. Chapter 8 is an exploration of the FOFC in the nominal domain. Chapter 9 tackles apparent counter-examples to the FOFC. Chapter 10 discusses the FOFC in free word order languages. Chapter 11 discusses the FOFC in morphology. What the FOFC is. The FOFC is, according to Sheehan, Biberauer, Roberts and Holmberg (2017), a condition which describes an asymmetry in natural language. Consider the syntactic configurations in (1):

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这本书提出了一种句法约束，称为最终-超过最终条件(FOFC)，它反映了自然语言语法的不对称性。第一章是对约束的介绍。第二章为这一约束提供了经验证据。第3章展示了跨类别约束的普遍性。第四章讨论了FOFC与结构和线性顺序的关系。第五章探讨了FOFC是语音处理约束的假设。第6章将FOFC扩展到附庸。第七章探讨了William 's Head-Final Filter(1982)可能被归入FOFC的观点。第八章是对名义领域的FOFC的探讨。第9章处理了FOFC的明显反例。第10章讨论了自由语序语言中的FOFC。第11章讨论了形态学上的FOFC。什么是FOFC。根据Sheehan, Biberauer, Roberts和Holmberg(2017)的说法，FOFC是一种描述自然语言不对称的条件。考虑(1)中的句法配置:

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期刊介绍： The Canadian Journal of Linguistics publishes articles of original research in linguistics in both English and French. The articles deal with linguistic theory, linguistic description of natural languages, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, first and second language acquisition, and other areas of interest to linguists.