Dimensions of movement : from features to remnants / edited by Artemis Alexiadou ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung.

Alexiadou, Artemis.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 48.

Linguistik aktuell, 0166-0829 = Linguistics today ; v. 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Generative grammar--Congresses.

Generative grammar.

Physical Description:

vi, 342 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c2002.

Summary:

This volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative research into the properties of phrasal and feature movement, which explore these key syntactic phenomena from different angles and across languages. The papers advance or build on models of movement which capitalize either on generalized feature movement or on generalized remnant movement. Both these approaches attempt to develop a restrictive theory of movement aiming at a simplification of the operations of the computational system. Despite the fact that they are so different technically, generalized feature movement and generalized remnant movement both push the theory of movement to the same direction in two important respects: (a) Elimination of head movement. (b) Elimination of covert movement. The book is of primary interest to researchers and students in theoretical linguistics and syntactic theory.

Contents:

Dimensions of Movement

Editorial page

Title page

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Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Raising without infinitives and the role of agreement

Chapter 3: Prosodic diagnostics for remnant AP movement in Polish

Chapter 4: Remnant stranding and the theory of Movement

Chapter 5: VOS in Portuguese

Chapter 6: Against remnant VP-movement

Chapter 7: Remnant movement and partial deletion

Chapter 8: Derivations and complexity filters

Chapter 9: Feature movement or agreement at a distance?

Chapter 10: Two types of remnant movement

Chapter 11: On Feature Movement

Chapter 12: CP-pied-piping and remnant IP movement in long distance wh-movement

Chapter 13: Phrasal movement in Hebrew adjectives and possessives

Index

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

A collection of papers from a workshop on (remnant/feature) movement organized by the Research Centre for General Linguistics, the Linguistics Department of the University of Potsdam, and the Dutch Graduate School in Linguistics and hosted in Potsdam in July 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-16200-4

9786612162008

90-272-9757-6

OCLC:

70766182