By Dorothee Beermann, David LeBlanc, Henk van Riemsdijk
ISBN-10: 9027227381
ISBN-13: 9789027227386
Symmetries and asymmetries have continuously performed a massive function in linguistic theorizing. From the early works on almost certainly common houses of transformational procedures, transformations among rightward and leftward move methods have been famous and constituted a problem to theories of stipulations on differences. The upward boundedness of extraposition principles vs. the successive cyclic personality of query note circulate, for instance, is still a vexing challenge. an idea which has received massive prominence within the most modern syntactic paintings, specifically Noam Chomsky's 'Minimalist software' and Richard Kayne's 'Antisymmetry' suggestion, is that rightward circulate easily doesn't exist. this suggests, in essence, that what seems like a component that has been moved rightward is both base-generated in its floor place, or it really is really moved leftward yet all its surrounding fabrics were moved leftward even extra. in actual fact, those radical proposals have generated lots of new analyses of the proper phenomena, and so they have fostered significant controversy in regards to the viability and desirability of this sort of procedure. the current quantity brings jointly a consultant staff of articles discussing numerous points of (apparent) rightward flow approaches, together with concerns having to do with parsing, and representing many of the opposing strains of idea in this subject. Empirically, they disguise a big selection of structures (extraposition, scrambling, quantifier-floating, etc.) and languages ( American signal Language, Bengali, Dutch, French, Frisian, German, Hindi, eastern, Marathi, etc.).
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There are thus twentyseven (logically) possible combinations. (Note that these are the values associated with the XP once it has been incorporated into the evolving tree structure. ) Only the following seven combinations correspond to cases where the parser needs to commence or continue the construction of a chain: Case + + + Theta 0 0 0 Comments gap-locating -movement of XP gap-locating -movement of XP gap-locating -movement of XP 0 - 0 0 + + gap-creating -movement of XP gap-creating -movement of XP + 0 0 gap-locating -bar movement of XP 0 + + gap-creating -bar movement of XP Scope + 0 - Four cases correspond to instances of non-movement: Scope + + Case + + Theta + + Comments no motivation for movement all requirements are satisfied (ARS) ARS: adjunct base generated in scope position ARS The remaining sixteen cases are impossible, ruled out either by syntactic constraints or due to the fact that certain combinations of features are not possible once an XP has been attached.
Studying other subjects was forbidden ii. , studying other subjects was still permitted Obviously, the phrase only SYNTAX has been moved to some operator position in the matrix clause in order to achieve the wide scope reading shown in (16ii). Notice now that this wide scope reading is strictly impossible in German (the impossible reading is marked with #): (17) a. Man hat uns gezwungen nur SYNTAX zu studieren b. Es wurde verlangt, daß wir nur SYNTAX studieren i. e. studying other subjects was forbidden 44 JOSEF BAYER ii.
Je [or baba aSbe]] cheleTa Suneche Suneche As I have pointed out in Bayer (1995 in press), CPs must be licensed according to their inner architecture: COMP-final CP must be to the left of V, and COMPinitial CPs must be to the right of V 2 . Notice in addition that bole must be [+V], and as such it should - contrary to fact - undergo extraposition according to Case Resistance. Adjunction of CP to IP leads to a fourth problem: Unless reconstruction can be invoked, the binding relations seen in (4) and (5) are unexpected: (4) a.
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