Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective

Name: Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective
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Gert Webelhuth Manfred Sailer Heike Walker(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen im August 2013

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Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
Introduction by the editors
1. Introduction
2. Facts to be accounted for by a theory of relative clause extraposition
2.1 Construal
2.2 Locality
2.3 Binding
2.4 Further interpretive effects of relative clause extraposition
2.5 Generalizations about relative clause extraposition
3. Theories of relative clause extraposition
3.1 Core movement theories
3.2 Theories without core movement
4. Summary
5. Contributions of the articles in this volume
Bader, Häussler & Schmid
Strunk & Snider
Walker
Öztürk
Geraci & Cecchetto
Chesi
Kluck & de Vries
Gregoromichelaki
Crysmann
Göbbel
Hartmann
Acknowledgements
References
Part I. Empirical perspective
Constraints on intra- and extraposition
1. Introduction
2. Infinitival complementation and word order
3. Infinitival complementation and hierarchical structure
3.1 Center-embedding and how to avoid it
3.2 The lexical basis of clause union
3.3 Summary
4. Verb (projection) raising
4.1 VPR: Corpus evidence
4.2 Experiment 1
4.3 V(P)R: Summary
5. The third construction
5.1 The third construction: Corpus evidence
5.2 Experiment 2
5.3 The third construction: Summary
6. Discussion: Constraints on intra- and extraposition
References
Subclausal locality constraints on relative clause extraposition
1. Introduction
2. Subclausal locality constraints on extraposition
2.1 Subjacency
2.2 Generalized Subjacency
2.3 Chomsky's Barriers approach
3. Counterexamples from corpora
3.1 Generalized Subjacency
3.2 Subjacency
3.3 Barriers approach
3.4 Summary
4. Systematic corpus study
5. Experiment 1
5.1 Motivation
5.2 Experimental technique
5.3 Experimental design
5.4 English
5.5 German
5.6 Discussion
6. Experiment 2
6.1 Motivation
6.2 Experimental technique
6.3 Experimental design
6.4 Predictions
6.5 Participants
6.6 Materials
6.7 Results
6.8 Discussion
7. Conclusion
References
Constraints on relative clause extraposition in English
1. Introduction
2. Eliciting judgment data
3. Restrictions on extraposition
3.1 The definiteness restriction
3.2 The predicate restriction
3.3 The grammatical function of the antecedent NP
4. The experiment
4.1 Predictions
4.2 Method
4.3 Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
References
Part II. The Minimalist Perspective
Rightward movement, EPP and specifiers
1. Introduction
2. Postverbal constituents in Uyghur: Is it rightward movement?
3. Postverbal constituents in Khalkha
4. EPP and specifier projection
5. Further evidence: Japanese, Turkish, Uzbek and Kirghiz
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Neglected cases of rightward movement
1. Introduction
2. Rightward movements in sign languages
2.1 Wh-phrases on the right
2.2 Negative quantifiers on the right
2.3 The distribution of non-manual markers
3. Why rightward?
4. When performance plays a role
5. When grammar plays a role
6. Conclusions
References
Rightward movement from a different perspective
1. Introduction
2. A case of rightward movement: Extraposition (EXT)
2.1 What
2.2 From where
2.3 Where
3. Another case of rightward movement: (Heavy) NP-Shift
3.1 What
3.2 Where and why
4. Some of the solutions proposed and their problems
4.1 Analysis 1: Classic rightward movement
4.2 Analysis 2: Base generation
4.3 Analysis 3: A modification based account
4.4 Analysis 4: A "mixed" account
5. The proposal: Changing the derivational perspective
5.1 Deriving phrase structures top-down, from left-to-right
5.2 Merge, movement, and phase projection at work: Nesting and the special status of the last selected argument
5.3 Right-hand adjuncts
5.4 Rightward Quantifier Raising
5.5 C-command and pronominal binding in a top-down left-right grammar
5.6 Extraposition from a left-right, top-down perspective
5.7 Heavy NP-Shift
5.8 Remaining issues
6. Discussion
References
Cumulative rightward processes
1. Introduction
2. Mutual feeding of rightward processes
2.1 Extraposition feeds right node raising
2.2 Right node raising feeds extraposition
2.3 Additional evidence from English and German
3. How to analyze right node raising and extraposition in isolation
3.1 Right node raising as multidominance
3.2 Extraposition as specifying coordination plus ellipsis
4. A syntax of cumulative rightward processes
5. Conclusion
References
Part III. Other Theoretical Perspectives
A dynamic perspective on left-right asymmetries
1. Introduction
1.1 The phenomena: Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD) and Clitic Doubling (CID)
2. Sketching a Dynamic Syntax model for Greek
2.1 Background
2.2 A language to talk about trees: LOFT
2.3 Anaphora in DS
2.4 The parsing process
2.5 Parsing bounded and unbounded dependencies
2.6 Parsing clitics in DS
2.7 Expletives and Extraposition
2.8 Clitic Left Dislocation
2.9 Clitic doubling
2.10 Quantification in DS and clitic doubling
3. Conclusion: clitics and left/right asymmetries in Dynamic Syntax
Acknowledgements
References
On the locality of complement clause and relative clause extraposition
1. Introduction
2. Relative clause vs. complement clause extraposition
2.1 Extraposition from adjunct islands
2.2 Extraposition from complex NPs
2.3 Generalised modification (Kiss, 2005)
2.4 Nonlocal complement extraposition (Müller 2004)
3. Nonlocal complement extraposition revisited
3.1 Adjunct islands
3.2 Bridging effects with complex NPs
Synopsis
4. A synthesis
4.1 Relative clause extraposition
4.2 Complement clause extraposition
4.3 Intervention
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Part IV. The Prosodic Perspective
Extraposition of defocused and light PPs in English*
1. Remarks on extraposition from NP
2. On the syntax-phonology correspondence
2.1 Derivation by phase and prosodic structure
2.2 PF movement
3. Extraposition in focus neutral contexts
4. Extraposition of defocused PPs
5. Extraposition of light PPs
5.1 The prosodic representation of light PPs
5.2 Rightward movement of light PPs
5.3 A prosodic trigger for cliticisation and extraposition
6. Conclusion
References
Appendix: Index of constraints
Prosodic constraints on extraposition in German
1. Introduction
2. Prosodic structure
2.1 The prosodic hierarchy
2.2 The phonological phrase in German
2.3 The intonational phrase in German
2.4 Restrictions on P-structure
3. Extraposition as an effect of Nonrecursivity
3.1 Object clauses strive to the clausal peripheries
3.2 Prosodic coordination despite syntactic subordination
3.3 No ip-boundary between the matrix and the extraposed clause
4. Optional extraposition
4.1 Extraction from DP
4.2 Adverbial clauses
4.3 Subject clauses
4.4 Infinitives
4.5 Topicalized VPs
5. Extraposition and Exhaustivity
5.1 Theoretical assumptions
5.2 Empirical consequences
6. Conclusion
References
Index

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