Problems of remnant movement

Grewendorf, Günther

doi:10.1515/9781614516330-002

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“…Traditionally improper movement has been formulated following the a=Ā distinction; May (1979) and Chomsky (1981:195-204): a derivation is ruled out if a constituent undergoes A movement after having been targeted byĀ movement in terms of the A=Ā. Recent works on this topic (Grewendorf, 1993;Abels, 2007) show that the classical characterization distinction is too coarse. These detailed studies derive a rich hierarchy of movement types ((4) from Abels, 2007).…”

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Generalized Minimality: Feature impoverishment and comprehension deficits in agrammatism

Grillo

2009

Lingua

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Generalized Minimality: Feature impoverishment and comprehension deficits in agrammatism

Grillo

2009

Lingua

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“…To investigate it, I look at improper movement and related phenomena that bear on the sequencing of movement operations and claim that there are non-trivial constraints on such sequencing. These constraints severely limit remnant movement (see Grewendorf (2003) for a related proposal) and extraction from moved constituents.…”

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Towards a restrictive theory of (remnant) movement!

Abels

2007

LIVY

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A restrictive theory of syntax needs both a restrictive theory of structures and a restrictive theory of operations.Much recent effort has gone into narrowing the class of allowable structures and a lot has been learned. This paper proposes that operations are linearly ordered on an essentially constituent by constituent basis. A universal constraint on the ordering of operations in language is proposed whose function is to fix the order in which operations apply. This constraint is deployed using a generalized prohibition against improper movement. The proposal captures some but not all effects of what has traditionally been called the freezing principle. It is argued that empirically exactly the right cut is made. It is further argued that the proposal rules out an entire class of remnant movement derivations, including the analysis of cross-serial dependencies in Nilsen (2003) and the analysis of order-preservation in Koopman and Szabolcsi (2000).

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“…31 See Grewendorf (2003; and Abels (2006) for analyses of remnant movement asymmetries that incorporate a condition like (33-a) (and that either are, or could easily be made, compatible with the present approach); and Williams (1974; and Sternefeld (1992) b. An edge feature cannot be assigned to a head γ for a category β if an edge feature has been assigned to γ for a category α, and α includes β.…”

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