Phrasal movement and its kin / David Pesetsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pesetsky, David Michael, author.

Series:

Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 37.

Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generative grammar.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Interrogative.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Phraseology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 132 pages).

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2000]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This study investigates the types of movement and movement-like relations that link positions in syntactic structure. David Pesetsky argues that there are three such relations. Besides overt phasal movement, there are two distinct types of movement without phonological effect: covert phrasal movement and feature movement. Focusing on "wh"-questions, he shows how his classification of movement-like relations allows us to understand the story behind "wh"-questions in which an otherwise inviolable property of movement--" Attract Closest" --appears to be violated. By demonstrating that more movement takes place in such configurations than previously suspected, he shows that Attract Closest is actually not violated at all in these cases. This conclusion draws on recent research in both syntax and semantics, and depends crucially on Pesetsky's expanded repertoire of movement-like relations. "Linguistic Inquiry" Monograph No. 37

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-128) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Pesetsky, David Michael. Phrasal movement and its kin.

ISBN:

9780262281461

0262281465

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