
The Defective Copy Theory of Movement
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- The Defective Copy Theory of Movement
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Dedication page
- Table of contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1.1. The language under study: Cape Verdean Creole
- 1.2. Methodological issues
- 1.3. Theoretical framework
- 1.4. Outline of the book
- Aspects of the syntax of Cape Verdean Creole
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2. Clause functional structure and verb movement
- 2.2.1 V-to-T movement in CVC (Baptista 2002)
- 2.2.2 An almighty TP": absence of V movement in CVC (Pratas 2007)
- 2.2.3 No verb movement in CVC
- 2.3. The pronominal system
- 2.3.1 A tripartite pronominal system
- 2.3.2 Wh-constituents
- 2.3.2.1 Ken/Kenha
- 2.3.2.2 Kusé
- 2.3.2.3 Kantu/Kal(s)
- 2.3.2.4 Modi/Pamodi
- 2.3.2.5 Undi
- 2.3.2.6 Ki N
- 2.4. DP structure
- 2.4.1 Determiners and Quantifiers
- 2.4.2 Relative clauses
- 2.5. The complementizer system
- 2.5.1 The data
- 2.5.1.1 The complementizer di 'of'
- 2.5.1.2 The complementizer ki 'that'
- 2.5.1.3 The complementizer ma 'that'
- 2.5.1.4 The complementizer pa 'for'
- 2.5.1.5 The complementizer pamodi 'to/Ø'
- 2.5.1.6 The complementizer si 'if'
- 2.5.1.7 The complementizer Ø
- 2.5.2 The non-Split-CP hypothesis
- 2.6. Summary
- Wh-Questions in cape verdean creole
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Wh-Questions with overt wh-movement
- 3.2.1 The gap strategy
- 3.2.2 The gap strategy with PP pied-piping
- 3.2.3 The preposition stranding with a spelled out trace (PSST) strategy
- 3.2.4 The P-chopping strategy
- 3.3. Wh-Questions without wh-movement
- 3.3.1 The resumptive strategy
- 3.3.2 In situ wh-questions
- 3.4. Towards an analysis of wh-questions in CVC
- 3.5. Summary
- Restrictive relative clauses in Cape Verdean Creole
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Relativization strategies
- 4.2.1 Relativization with A´-movement
- 4.2.1.1 The gap strategy
- 4.2.1.2 The preposition stranding with a spelled out trace (PSST) strategy
- 4.2.1.3 The P-chopping strategy
- 4.2.2 Relativization without A´-movement - Resumption
- 4.3. The structure of restrictive relative clauses
- 4.3.1 The complement-of-N0 analysis (Platzack 2000)
- 4.3.2 The [DP D0 CP] analysis (Bianchi 1999/2002a)
- 4.4. Summary
- Extensions of the Copy Theory of Movement
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. The preposition stranding with a spelled out trace (PSST) strategy
- 5.2.1 The nature of the defective copy el
- 5.2.1.1 The distribution of el
- 5.2.1.2 The defective copy el is a variable in the narrow syntax
- 5.2.2 PSST involves wh-movement
- 5.2.2.1 Sensitivity to long and successive-cyclic movement
- 5.2.2.1.1 Sensitivity to long movement.
- 5.2.2.1.2 Sensitivity to successive-cyclic movement.
- 5.2.2.2 Rejection of pied-piping and of P-stranding + null gap
- 5.2.3 How does the Copy Theory of Movement (Chomsky 1995b) account for PSST?
- 5.2.4 How does the Copy + Merge Theory of Movement (Nunes 2004) account for PSST?
- 5.2.5 The defective Copy Theory of Movement
- 5.2.5.1 How does the stranding analysis of resumption (Boeckx 2003a) account for PSST?
- 5.2.5.2 The mechanism of 'defective copying'
- 5.3. Resumption in CVC
- 5.3.1 Defective chains vs. resumptive chains
- 5.4. Summary
- Conclusions
- 6.1. Synthesis of the research findings
- 6.2. Further research
- References
- Index
- Language index
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