Movement in Language: Interactions and ArchitecturesThis is the most comprehensive, integrated account yet published of the properties of question formations and their variations across languages. Movement in Language develops a new set of arguments for the controversial claim that syntax should be understood derivationally; that is, that the best model of language is one in which sentences are constructed in a series of operations that precede or follow each other in time. The arguments are exemplified through reference to a number of languages, including Bulgarian, Japanese, English, Chinese, and Serbo-Croatian. |
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ACC bought anaphor anti-agreement antipassive appear arguments attracted attractor Bošković Bulgarian Bulgarian Roumyana Izvorski chain Chamorro chapter Chichewa Chomsky clause clitics complementizer constraint contrast CP wh D-linked derivation discussed effects embedded English examples fact Halkomelem Hanako head ill-formed immediately c-commands involve IP-absorption languages itta Ivan Jacaltec Japanese John NOM John TOP Mary katta kinain kogo landing-site Maria Mary bought Mary NOM matrix ment morpheme morphology movement to multiple multiple specifiers nani naze NOM what ACC null obeys Shortest object shift overt movement overt syntax parasitic gaps participial agreement Pesetsky phonologically position prediction pronounce Quechua relation relative clause relevant Saito scope Serbo-Croatian Shortest Move sika-NPs Spec CP strong feature structure Subjacency Tax successive-cyclic syntactic Tagalog Taroo theory developed tion trigger verb violate Shortest wants to ban weak feature well-formed dependency West Flemish wh-extraction wh-island wh-movement wh-phrase wh-word