Incomplete Category Fronting is a detailed investigation of the syntax of incomplete category fronting in German, carried out from a cross-linguistic perspective. The study presents a wealth of empirical evidence involving unbound traces created by remnant topicalization, wh-movement, scrambling, left dislocation, and extraposition. Four characteristic properties of remnant movement are identified that pose severe problems for a representational movement theory. It is argued that these properties can be fruitfully addressed on the basis of Chomsky's minimalist program, and that they follow from a derivational movement theory that incorporates the Barriers Condition, the Strict Cycle Condition, Fewest Steps, Last Resort, and the Minimal Link Condition but completely dispenses with surface filters. Incomplete Category Fronting provides an empirical underpinning for the minimalist program and presents a powerful argument for a derivational theory of grammar. Audience: Incomplete Category Fronting will interest all linguists working on theoretical syntax, Germanic syntax or the syntax-semantics interface.
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It is a well-known characteristic of German syntax that "incomplete" or "partial" constituents can be fronted. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
remnant movement approach, unbound intermediate traces, incoherent infinitives, movement type asymmetries, predicate scrambling, dal keiner, remnant movement constructions, undergone topicalization, love gelesen, whoacc henom, lesen sollst, remnant categories, unbound trace, cyclicity constraints, illicit cases, unchecked morphological feature, remnant infinitives, cyclic node, same reference set, wieder keiner, remnant topicalization, feature checking operations, scrambling traces, fronted item, competing derivation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Last Resort, Fewest Steps, Strict Cycle Condition, Barriers Condition, Unambiguous Domination, Form Chain, Shortest Path Condition, Proper Binding Condition, Claudia Peter, Extension Condition, Predicate-Internal Subject Hypothesis, Fritz Caroline, Minimal Link Condition, Antje Hygrometer, Wh-Island Condition, Principle of Unambiguous Binding, Upward Boundedness Constraint, Iraqi Arabic, Specified Subject Condition New!
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It is a well-known characteristic of German syntax that "incomplete" or "partial" constituents can be fronted. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
remnant movement approach, unbound intermediate traces, incoherent infinitives, movement type asymmetries, predicate scrambling, dal keiner, remnant movement constructions, undergone topicalization, love gelesen, whoacc henom, lesen sollst, remnant categories, unbound trace, cyclicity constraints, illicit cases, unchecked morphological feature, remnant infinitives, cyclic node, same reference set, wieder keiner, remnant topicalization, feature checking operations, scrambling traces, fronted item, competing derivation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Last Resort, Fewest Steps, Strict Cycle Condition, Barriers Condition, Unambiguous Domination, Form Chain, Shortest Path Condition, Proper Binding Condition, Claudia Peter, Extension Condition, Predicate-Internal Subject Hypothesis, Fritz Caroline, Minimal Link Condition, Antje Hygrometer, Wh-Island Condition, Principle of Unambiguous Binding, Upward Boundedness Constraint, Iraqi Arabic, Specified Subject Condition New!
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- On Extraction and Extraposition in German (Linguistik Aktuell, Vol 11) by Uli Lutz on 5 pages
- Wh-Scope Marking (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today) by Uli Lutz on 5 pages
- Scrambling and Barriers (Linguistik Aktuell, 5) by Gunther Grewendorf on 4 pages
- Syntactic Phrase Structure Phenomena in Noun Phrases and Sentences (Linguistik Aktuell, 6) by Christa Bhatt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Directionality and Logical Form: On the Scope of Focusing Particles and Wh-in-situ (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory) by Josef Bayer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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