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Wh-movement : moving on
- Title
- Wh-movement : moving on / edited by Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Norbert Corver.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
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- Description
- xi, 353 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Wh-movement-the phenomenon by which interrogative words appear at the beginning of interrogative sentences-is one of the central displacement operations of human language. Noam Chomsky's 1977 paper "On Wh-Movement," a landmark in the study of wh-movement (and movement in general), showed that this computational operation is the basis of a variety of syntactic constructions that had previously been described in terms of construction-specific rules. Taking Chomsky's paper as a starting point, the contributors to this collection reconsider a number of the issues raised in "On Wh-Movement" from the perspective of contemporary Minimalist syntactic theory (which explores the thesis that human language is a system optimally designed to meet certain interface conditions imposed by other cognitive systems with which the language faculty interacts). They discuss such wh-movement issues as wh-phrases and pied-piping, the formation of A-bar chains and the copy theory of movement, cyclicity and locality of wh-movement, and the typology of wh-constructions. By reconsidering core characteristics of the wh-movement operation first systematically discussed by Chomsky from the Minimalist perspective, this volume contributes to the further development of the theory of wh-movement and to the general theory of movement. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Current studies in linguistics ; 42
- Uniform Title
- Current studies in linguistics series ; 42.
- Subject
- Grammar, Comparative and general > Interrogative
- Grammar, Comparative and general > Word order
- Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
- Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
- Languages, Modern > Word order
- 17.50 grammar
- Languages, Modern > Word order
- Grammar, Comparative and general > Interrogative
- Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
- Grammar, Comparative and general > Word order
- Bewegungstransformation
- Interrogativsatz
- Generative Grammatik
- Interrogativpronomen
- W-Bewegung
- Bewegung Linguistik
- Vraagzinnen
- Woordvolgorde
- Syntaxis
- Minimalist program
- Leiden <2002>
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Noam Chomsky -- Lines of Inquiry into Wh- Movement / Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Norbert Corver -- Part I. Wh-Phrases and Pied-Piping -- On Wh-Head Movement / Caterina Donati -- The Pied-Piper Feature / Akira Watanabe -- Pied-Piping, Feature Movement, and Wh-Subjects / Brian Agbayani -- Part II. A-Chains and Copy Theory -- On the Form of Chains : Criterial Positions and ECP Effects / Luigi Rizzi -- On Overt and Covert Wh- and Relative Movement in Hindi and Punjabi / Henrietta Yang -- Movement, Wh-Agreement, and Apparent Wh-in-Situ / Chris H. Reintges, Philip LeSourd, and Sandra Chung -- Part III. Cyclicity and Locality -- Conceptions of the Cycle / Howard Lasnik -- On the Relaxation of Intervention Effects / Toru Ishii -- Part IV. Wh-Constructions -- Top Issues in Questions : Topics- Topicalization- Topicalizability / Kleanthes K. Grohmann -- Mechanisms of Wh- Saturation and Interpretation in Multiple Wh-Movement / Balazs Suranyi -- On the Structural Height of Reason Wh-Adverbials : Acquisition and Consequences / Heejeong Ko.
- ISBN
- 0262033461
- 9780262033466
- 0262532794
- 9780262532792
- 02620334601 (canceled/invalid)
- 0262532794 (canceled/invalid)
- 0002620334601 (alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2005058016
- 9780262532792
- OCLC
- ocm62408870
- 62408870
- SCSB-8810354
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library