Dimensions of Movement: From features to remnants: 48 (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027227691 ISBN 13: 9789027227690

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2002

Synopsis

This volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative research into the properties of phrasal and feature movement, which explore these key syntactic phenomena from different angles and across languages. The papers advance or build on models of movement which capitalize either on generalized feature movement or on generalized remnant movement. Both these approaches attempt to develop a restrictive theory of movement aiming at a simplification of the operations of the computational system. Despite the fact that they are so different technically, generalized feature movement and generalized remnant movement both push the theory of movement to the same direction in two important respects: (a) Elimination of head movement. (b) Elimination of covert movement. The book is of primary interest to researchers and students in theoretical linguistics and syntactic theory.

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Synopsis

This volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative research into the properties of phrasal and feature movement, which explore these key syntactic phenomena from different angles and across languages. The papers advance or build on models of movement which capitalize either on generalized feature movement or on generalized remnant movement. Both these approaches attempt to develop a restrictive theory of movement aiming at a simplification of the operations of the computational system. Despite the fact that they are so different technically, generalized feature movement and generalized remnant movement both push the theory of movement to the same direction in two important respects: elimination of head movement and elimination of covert movement. The book is of primary interest to researchers and students in theoretical linguistics and syntactic theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027227691
• ISBN 13: 9789027227690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 351
• Editor: Alexiadou Artemis, Anagnostopoulou Elena, Barbiers Sjef, Gärtner Hans-Martin