Word Order Variation, Verb Movement, and Economy Principles

Wilder, Chris; Ćavar, Damir

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9582.1994.tb00849.x

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“…Chomsky (1993) proposed that movement must satisfy the needs of the category moved: so-called Greed. Wilder and Ć avar (1994) and Lasnik (1995) showed that there are cases where a movement appears to satisfy only the needs of the target (''Altruism'' or ''Enlightened Self-Interest''). In Chomsky 1995 movement is triggered by the needs of the target only (Attract).…”

Section: * (Icelandic)mentioning

confidence: 97%

Scandinavian Stylistic Fronting: How Any Category Can Become an Expletive

2000

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The two central theses are (a) the category moved by stylistic fronting (SF) functions as a pure expletive in its derived position, which is [Spec, IP]; (b) what is moved under SF is only the phonological feature matrix of a category. The theory accounts for most of the properties of SF: why it applies only when there is a subject gap; why it affects almost any category, head or phrase; the locality conditions; and the crosslinguistic variation. SF belongs to Narrow Syntax, not the phonological component. Although the features moved by SF are invisible at LF, the specifier position created by SF is visible and is used by other categories that are visible at LF but invisible at PF.

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Section: * (Icelandic)mentioning

confidence: 97%

Scandinavian Stylistic Fronting: How Any Category Can Become an Expletive

2000

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“…Wilder & Cavar 1994). It must also then be ensured that specCP is not filled by some other category, for instance a wh-phrase, since, just as in the case of phrasal topicalization, the fronted, contrastively focused verb cannot be preceded by any category.…”

Section: (37) [T [Agro [Have [Neg [Su [V Ob]]]]]]mentioning

confidence: 98%

Remarks on Holmberg’s Generalization

1999

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It is argued that the dependence of Scandinavian Object Shift on verb movement, called Holmberg's Generalization, is a special case of a more general condition preventing Object Shift across any phologically visible category within VP: a verb, a preposition, a verb particle or another argument. Overt movement of the blocking category will always pave the way for Object Shift. The interplay between Object Shift and Verb Topicalization (verb movement to specCP) shows (a) that it makes no difference to Object Shift how the verb moves, as long as it moves, (b) that Holmberg's Generalization is a matter of derivation, not representation, and (c) that Object Shift does not observe the strict cycle. It is proposed that Object Shift applies after insertion of pholological features in a component of stylistic rules, containing rules dependent on focus structure.

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“…I do not pursue this problem here, since it is beyond the scope of the article. See also Wilder and Ć avar 1993, Wexler 1994, and Vikner 1995 for discussion of auxiliary movement. 7 See Brody 1995 for a similar proposal for infinitives in Hungarian.…”

Section: The Head Movement Hypothesis and The Distribution Of The Negmentioning

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Verb Movement in Embedded Clauses in West Flemish

Haegeman

1998

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This article analyzes aspects of the distribution of West Flemish verbs in terms of Kayne's (1994) antisymmetry approach. The distribution of the auxiliary in the Infinitivus pro Participio (IPP) construction provides evidence for three functional heads in the lower middle field: Neg, T, and F2. The word order in the IPP construction is derived by head movement of the auxiliary and XP-movement of the IPP complement. The IPP complement moves to [Spec, FP2] to check its formal features; the finite auxiliary moves either to F2 or to a higher functional head, T or Neg; the nonfinite auxiliary remains in F2. The analysis accounts for the finite/nonfinite asymmetry in the distribution of the negative affix en. The article includes concrete proposals for the implementation of feature checking.

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Word Order Variation, Verb Movement, and Economy Principles

Cited by 25 publications

References 6 publications

Scandinavian Stylistic Fronting: How Any Category Can Become an Expletive

Scandinavian Stylistic Fronting: How Any Category Can Become an Expletive

Remarks on Holmberg’s Generalization

Verb Movement in Embedded Clauses in West Flemish

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