Download PDF by David Pesetsky: Phrasal Movement and Its Kin (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs)

By David Pesetsky

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ISBN-13: 9780262161961

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This learn investigates the kinds of move and movement-like kinfolk that hyperlink positions in syntactic constitution. David Pesetsky argues that there are 3 such family members. along with overt phasal stream, there are exact sorts of circulation with no phonological influence: covert phrasal circulation and have stream. targeting wh-questions, he indicates how his category of movement-like family permits us to appreciate the tale at the back of wh-questions within which an differently inviolable estate of flow -- "Attract Closest" -- seems to be violated. by means of demonstrating that extra circulate occurs in such configurations than formerly suspected, he exhibits that allure Closest is de facto now not violated in any respect in those situations. This end attracts on fresh learn in either syntax and semantics, and relies crucially on Pesetsky's improved repertoire of movement-like relations.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 37

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I have glossed (60a) with its intended interpretation, (60b). Wh1 not in situ, ACD within wh2 (60) a. I need to know which girl ordered [which boy that Mary (also) did h] to congratulate Sarah. b. I need to know for which girl x and for which boy y such that Mary ordered y to congratulate Sarah], x also ordered y to --------------------------------------congratulate Sarah. , I need to know the girl-boy pairs such that both the girl and Mary ordered the boy to congratulate Sarah] Does Wh-in-Situ Undergo Covert Phrasal Movement?

Multiple-speci®er requirement of Cm-spec (revised) (79) Except in questions where a wh-phrase is D-linked, Cm-spec requires more than one wh-speci®er. Alternatively, D-linked multiple questions might be formed (and receive normal ``pair-list'' readings) with the complementizer otherwise reserved 42 Chapter 4 for nonmultiple questions: the interrogative complementizer C1-spec that takes only one wh-phrase as speci®er. On this view we would not need the exception clause built into (79), but we would need to understand why the semantics of D-linked multiple questions allows a complementizer that is otherwise not found in such questions.

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