UID:
almahu_9949709278002882
Format:
1 online resource (238 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
90-272-4708-0
Series Statement:
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series ; v.283
Content:
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-1458-1
Language:
English
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