On pied-piping: Wh-movement and beyond
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Main Author: Heck, Fabian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter 2008
Series:Studies in generative grammar 98
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Frontmatter; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Pied-Piping Generalizations; Chapter 3. Theoretical Background; Chapter 4. Deriving the Generalizations, Part One; Chapter 5. Deriving the Generalizations, Part Two; Chapter 6. Conclusion; Backmatter
Pied-piping, the phenomenon that wh-movement may target categories not marked with the feature [wh], has generally been considered idiosyncratic and pathological. On Pied-Piping argues that this assessment is not correct. The book presents a compilation of crosslinguistic generalizations on pied-piping and a theory that derives them. Pied-piping is incorporated into a derivational theory of successive cyclic wh-movement that includes input-output optimization, the operation Agree, and phase theory. The resulting theory is a step towards closing a long-standing gap in syntactic theorizing
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 401 p.)
ISBN:1283398141
3110211467
9781283398145
9783110206050
9783110211467

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