
Phrasal Movement and Its Kin: Volume 37
David Pesetsky(Author)
MIT Press
Published on 10. October 2000
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Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-262-66166-9 (ISBN)
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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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English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
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MIT Press Ltd
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
240 gr
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978-0-262-66166-9 (9780262661669)
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Phrasal Movement and Its Kin
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10/2000
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Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and LinguisticsMassachusetts Institute of Technology