This study investigates the types of movement and movement-like relations that link positions in syntactic structure. David Pesetsky argues that there are three such relations. Besides overt phasal movement, there are two distinct types of movement without phonological effect: covert phrasal movement and feature movement. Focusing on wh-questions, he shows how his classification of movement-like relations allows us to understand the story behind wh-questions in which an otherwise inviolable property of movement--"Attract Closest"--appears to be violated. By demonstrating that more movement takes place in such configurations than previously suspected, he shows that Attract Closest is actually not violated at all in these cases. This conclusion draws on recent research in both syntax and semantics, and depends crucially on Pesetsky's expanded repertoire of movement-like relations.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 37
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David Pesetsky is Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an editor of Is the Best Good Enough? (MIT Press, 1998) and the author of Zero Syntax (MIT Press, 1994).
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The term movement describes a situation in which a syntactic unit-for example, a phrase-appears to occupy more than one position in syntactic structure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
covert phrasal movement, dade kakvo, koj dade, specifier potential, kakvo dade, ternary questions, kogo kakvo, morpheme movement, koj kakvo, pronunciation principles, wer sah, interrogative complementizer, separation constructions, covert movement, über wen, feature movement, answering pattern, intervention effect, multiple questions, distributive reading, quantifier float, dicto reading, binary questions, trace position, pronunciation patterns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Shortest Move, Attract Closest, Complementizer Choice Rule, John-ka Bill, Principle of Minimal Compliance, Roumyana Izvorski, Weak Crossover, West Ulster, Case Filter, New York Times, Phonological Spell-Out, Taroo-Top Hanako-only, Welche Kinder New!
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The term movement describes a situation in which a syntactic unit-for example, a phrase-appears to occupy more than one position in syntactic structure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
covert phrasal movement, dade kakvo, koj dade, specifier potential, kakvo dade, ternary questions, kogo kakvo, morpheme movement, koj kakvo, pronunciation principles, wer sah, interrogative complementizer, separation constructions, covert movement, über wen, feature movement, answering pattern, intervention effect, multiple questions, distributive reading, quantifier float, dicto reading, binary questions, trace position, pronunciation patterns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Shortest Move, Attract Closest, Complementizer Choice Rule, John-ka Bill, Principle of Minimal Compliance, Roumyana Izvorski, Weak Crossover, West Ulster, Case Filter, New York Times, Phonological Spell-Out, Taroo-Top Hanako-only, Welche Kinder New!
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- Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Studies in Contemporary Linguistics) by Carl Pollard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Minimalist Program (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Noam Chomsky on page 8, and Back Matter
- Lexico-Logical Form: A Radically Minimalist Theory (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) by Michael Brody in Front Matter
- Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) by Noam Chomsky in Front Matter
- Logical Form: Its Structure and Derivation (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) by Robert May in Front Matter
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- Minimality Effects In Syntax (Studies in Generative Grammar) by Arthur Stepanov on page 122, page 175, and page 325
- Structures and Beyond: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures Volume 3 (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Adriana Belletti on page 130, and page 194
- Asymmetry in Morphology (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) by Anna Maria Di Sciullo in Front Matter
- The Free Word Order Phenomenon: Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity (Studies in Generative Grammar) by Joachim Sabel on page 134
- Triggers (Studies in Generative Grammar) by Anne Breitbarth on page 329
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