Wh-movement : moving on / edited by Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Norbert Corver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cheng, Lisa Lai Shen.

Corver, Norbert, 1963-

Series:

Current studies in linguistics series ; 42.

Current studies in linguistics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Interrogative.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Word order.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Minimalist theory (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

xi, 353 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]

Summary:

Wh-movement-the phenomenon by which interrogative words appear at the beginning of interrogative sentences-is one of the central displacement operations of human language. Noam Chomsky's 1977 paper "On Wh-Movement," a landmark in the study of wh-movement (and movement in general), showed that this computational operation is the basis of a variety of syntactic constructions that had previously been described in terms of construction-specific rules. Taking Chomsky's paper as a starting point, the contributors to this collection reconsider a number of the issues raised in "On Wh-Movement" from the perspective of contemporary Minimalist syntactic theory (which explores the thesis that human language is a system optimally designed to meet certain interface conditions imposed by other cognitive systems with which the language faculty interacts). They discuss such wh-movement issues as wh-phrases and pied-piping, the formation of A-bar chains and the copy theory of movement, cyclicity and locality of wh-movement, and the typology of wh-constructions. By reconsidering core characteristics of the wh-movement operation first systematically discussed by Chomsky from the Minimalist perspective, this volume contributes to the further development of the theory of wh-movement and to the general theory of movement.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Lines of Inquiry into Wh-Movement / Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Norbert Corver 1

Part I Wh-Phrases and Pied-Piping 19

Chapter 2 On Wh-Head Movement / Caterina Donati 21

Chapter 3 The Pied-Piper Feature / Akira Watanabe 47

Chapter 4 Pied-Piping, Feature Movement, and Wh-Subjects / Brian Agbayani 71

Part II A-Chains and Copy Theory 95

Chapter 5 On the Form of Chains: Criterial Positions and ECP Effects / Luigi Rizzi 97

Chapter 6 On Overt and Covert Wh- and Relative Movement in Hindi and Punjabi / Henrietta Yang 135

Chapter 7 Movement, Wh-Agreement, and Apparent Wh-in-situ / Chris H. Reintges, Philip LeSourd, Sandra Chung 165

Part III Cyclicity and Locality 195

Chapter 8 Conceptions of the Cycle / Howard Lasnik 197

Chapter 9 On the Relaxation of Intervention Effects / Toru Ishii 217

Part IV Wh-Constructions 247

Chapter 10 Top Issues in Questions: Topics-Topicalization-Topicalizability / Kleanthes K. Grohmann 249

Chapter 11 Mechanisms of Wh-Saturation and Interpretation in Multiple Wh-Movement / Balazs Suranyi 289

Chapter 12 On the Structural Height of Reason Wh-Adverbials: Acquisition and Consequences / Heejeong Ko 319.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262033461

OCLC:

62408870

Publisher Number:

9780262532792