A–movement and the EPP

Bošković, Željko

doi:10.1111/1467-9612.00051

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“…Pointing out numbers of conceptual and empirical problems with the EPP-feature, however, several authors have made an attempt to eliminate it from the theory of grammar: Martin (1999), Epstein and Seely (2006), Bošković (2002Bošković ( , 2007, among many others. Among them is Bošković's (2007) theory, which in my view is the most comprehensive and explicit one.…”

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Theta-Marking via Agree

Funakoshi

2009

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This paper investigates the mechanism of θ-marking. Given the feature approach to θ-marking that states that θ-marking is performed by the general mechanism of feature checking, I will propose that θ-marking takes place via Agree, and provide conceptual and empirical arguments in favor of this view of θ-marking, based on data from control constructions in English and Japanese that indicate that a controller is θ-marked in the embedded [Spec, C] (precisely, [Spec, Fin]) by a matrix predicate.*

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Theta-Marking via Agree

Funakoshi

2009

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“…Greed: A constituent moves to satisfy a feature of its own. (Chomsky 1995a:201;Bošković 1995Bošković , 2002Bošković , 2007Grohmann, Drury, & Castillo 2000;Harwood 2015:528, fn. 8;Holmberg, Sheehan, & van der Wal 2016:11, a.o.…”

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P'urhepecha hyperraising to object: An argument for purely altruistic movement

Zyman

2017

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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Abstract. Classical syntactic theory was designed to ensure that raising would be able to proceed out of infinitival clauses, but not out of finite clauses. However, it has since become clear that a number of languages in fact allow raising out of finite clauses (hyperraising). This paper argues that the Mexican isolate P'urhepecha-more specifically, the variety spoken on the island of Janitzio on Lake Pátzcuaro-allows hyperraising to object (cf. Bruening 2002, Tanaka 2002, Halpert & Zeller 2015, Deal 2016, and develops an analysis of this phenomenon on which it involves two steps of purely altruistic (target-driven) movement-i.e., movement driven exclusively by a featural requirement of an attracting head. Alternative analyses of the phenomenon based on Greed (Chomsky 1995a, Bošković 2007 or Labeling (Chomsky 2013(Chomsky , 2015 are considered and shown to face serious problems. P'urhepecha hyperraising to object, then, sheds light on the driving force for movement: it provides an argument for Enlightened Self-Interest (Lasnik 1995, 2003, the hypothesis that movement may be driven by a feature either of the moving element or (as here) of an attracting head. The phenomenon also narrows down the space of possibilities for understanding the A/Ā-distinction.

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“…Bošković 2002Bošković , 2007Epstein and Seely 2006;Grohmann, Drury and Castillo 2000). Chomsky (2013) offers a novel motivation for this property based on his labelling algorithm.…”

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Mobility as a Feature: Evidence From Zulu

Zeller

2015

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This paper provides evidence for the view that syntactic movement of an element Y to a position X is not driven by features of the target X, but by features of the moving element Y. The data that constitute evidence for this type of analysis come from A-bar movement constructions (object left and right dislocation; object relativisation) in the Bantu language Zulu. As I show, only object-DPs that move out of the VP in Zulu are active Goals for Agreerelations and can trigger object agreement with the verb. The fact that the functional head responsible for object agreement must be able to identify a DP in its c-command domain as an active Goal entails that the "mobility" of this DP must be encoded as a property of the DP. Based on this conclusion, I also discuss two proposals about the nature of the feature that activates a DP for movement in Zulu and examine the conditions that determine how this feature is checked and deleted through movement.

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A–movement and the EPP

Cited by 334 publications

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Theta-Marking via Agree

Theta-Marking via Agree

P'urhepecha hyperraising to object: An argument for purely altruistic movement

Mobility as a Feature: Evidence From Zulu

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