The Unity of Movement : Evidence from Verb Movement in Cantonese.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsz-Ming Lee, Tommy.

Series:

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series ; v.283

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cantonese dialects--Verb.

Cantonese dialects.

Cantonese dialects--Syntax.

Head-driven phrase structure grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024.

Summary:

This thesis probes the question regarding to what extent movement theories can be unified. Specifically, I address issues surrounding the debate of the distinction between head movement and phrasal movement over the past few decades.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication page

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

List of tables

Abbreviations

Abstract

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 The theoretical goals and empirical domains of the volume

1.2 A unity approach to movement

1.3 The outline of this volume

Chapter 2 Approaching head movement

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The origin of head movement

2.2.1 From independent transformation rules to Move-α

2.2.2 Constraints on head movement

2.3 The debates surrounding head movement

2.3.1 Theoretical concerns of the adjunction approach to head movement

2.3.1.1 The Extension Condition

2.3.1.2 The Empty Category Principle/ Proper Binding Principle

2.3.1.3 The non-successive cyclic nature

2.3.1.4 Locality constraints

2.3.1.5 The Chain Uniformity Condition

2.3.2 Empirical differences with phrasal movement?

2.3.2.1 The locality constraints on head movement

2.3.2.2 The interpretive effects of head movement

2.3.2.3 The morpho-phonological realization of head movement

2.4 Non-unity approaches to head and phrasal movement

2.4.1 Eliminating head movement from the syntax

2.4.1.1 Post-syntactic movement/operations

2.4.1.2 Remnant phrasal movement

2.4.2 Reformulating head movement in the syntax

2.4.3 Interim summary

2.5 Recent pursuits of a unified theory of movement

2.5.1 Head movement to the specifier position

2.5.2 No head-specific locality constraint

2.5.3 The interpretation of head movement

2.6 Summary

Chapter 3 Intervention effects

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Intervention effects and head movement

3.2.1 Intervention due to identical structural types

3.2.2 The particular nature of the HMC and exceptions to the HMC

3.2.3 Base generation and remnant movement as alternatives

3.2.4 Interim summary

3.3 Verb doubling constructions and discourse effects.

3.3.1 Types of verbs

3.3.2 Morpho-syntactic properties and variants

3.3.2.1 Topic constructions of verbs

3.3.2.2 'Even'-focus constructions of verbs

3.3.2.3 Copula focus constructions of verbs

3.3.2.4 Dislocation copying of verbs

3.3.2.5 Interim summary

3.3.3 Discourse effects

3.3.3.1 Contrastive verbal topics

3.3.3.2 Additive verbal foci

3.3.3.3 Exhaustive verbal foci

3.3.3.4 Defocused verbs

3.3.3.5 Interim summary

3.4 Evidence for verb movement

3.4.1 Lexical identity effects

3.4.2 Island effects

3.4.2.1 Island sensitivity

3.4.2.2 Long-distance/Cross-clausal dependencies

3.4.2.3 Interim summary

3.4.3 Idiomatic expressions

3.5 Focus Intervention Effects

3.5.1 No intervention by heads

3.5.2 Intervention by focused elements

3.5.3 No intervention by quantificational elements

3.5.4 Interim summary

3.6 Proposal: Head movement to the specifier position

3.6.1 Details of the proposal

3.6.2 An illustration of the proposal

3.6.3 Deriving the properties of verb doubling constructions

3.6.3.1 The ordering of the functional projections in the CP periphery

3.6.3.2 The movement properties in verb doubling constructions

3.6.3.3 A syntactic explanation to Focus Intervention Effects

3.7 Alternative analyses to a head movement approach

3.7.1 Non-movement approaches

3.7.1.1 Base generation

3.7.1.2 Base generation plus operator movement

3.7.2 Phrasal movement approaches

3.7.2.1 Remnant VP movement

3.7.2.2 VP movement with subsequent deletion

3.8 Discussions and implications

3.8.1 Reformulating the Head Movement Constraint

3.8.2 A parallel analysis with phrasal movement

3.8.3 Focus Intervention Effects in phrasal movement

3.9 Conclusions

Chapter 4 Scope effects

4.1 Introduction.

4.2 (Non-)occurrence of semantic effects with head movement: An ongoing debate

4.2.1 A lack of semantic effects?

4.2.2 Discourse effects of head movement

4.2.3 Scope effects of head movement

4.2.3.1 Movement of (quantificational) determiners

4.2.3.2 Movement of negation

(i) The licensing scope of negation

(ii) Scope relations with subject quantifiers

(iii) Scope relations with object quantifiers

4.2.3.3 Movement of modal verbs

4.2.3.4 Movement of aspectual verbs

4.2.4 Interim summary

4.3 The distribution of aspectual verbs and modal verbs

4.3.1 The (restricted) high position

4.3.2 Verbs that can appear in the high position

4.3.2.1 Aspectual verbs

4.3.2.2 Modal verbs

4.3.2.3 Interim summary

4.3.3 Quantificational elements

4.3.4 Focused elements

4.3.5 Interim summary

4.4 Proposal: Scope-shifting head movement

4.4.1 Two components of the proposal

4.4.1.1 Overt scope-shifting head movement

4.4.1.2 Scope Economy

4.4.2 Deriving the properties of movement of quantificational heads

4.4.2.1 Deriving the quantificational scope effects

4.4.2.2 Deriving the focus scope effects

4.4.2.3 Deriving the restriction on verbs

4.4.3 Remarks on the landing site and the trigger

4.4.3.1 The landing site

4.4.3.2 The trigger

4.5 Further evidence for the proposal

4.5.1 Stacking of quantificational heads in the high position

4.5.2 Shortest Move

4.5.3 Movement out of coordinate structures

4.5.4 A remark on the indeterminacy of island sensitivity

4.6 Alternative analyses to a head movement approach

4.6.1 Multiple base positions of aspectual verbs and modal verbs

4.6.2 An in-situ approach to aspectual verbs and modal verbs

4.6.3 A remnant movement approach

4.6.4 Movement of aspectual verbs and modal verbs as phrasal movement

4.7 Discussions and implications.

4.7.1 Semantic effects of head movement

4.7.2 A parallel observation with phrasal elements

4.7.3 The trigger of head movement

4.8 Conclusions

Chapter 5 Linearization

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Asymmetries in doubling in Cantonese

5.3 Proposal: Cyclic Linearization and Copy Deletion suspension

5.3.1 Cyclic Linearization

5.3.2 Copy Deletion suspension

5.4 Deriving the asymmetries in doubling

5.4.1 Licit and illicit cases in topic constructions

5.4.2 Licit, illicit and optional cases in right dislocation

5.4.2.1 Licit cases

5.4.2.2 Illicit cases

5.4.2.3 Optional cases

5.4.3 A remark on differences in acceptability

5.4.4 Resolving a further asymmetry in doubling

5.5 Alternative explanations to the doubling effects

5.6 Extension: Verb movement without doubling

5.7 Conclusions

Chapter 6 Conclusions

References

Index.

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ISBN:

9789027247087

9027247080

OCLC:

1428902198