Wh-movement : moving on

Author(s)

• Cheng, Lisa L. S.
• Corver, Norbert
• Chomsky, Noam

Bibliographic Information

Wh-movement : moving on

edited by Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Norbert Corver ; [foreword by Noam Chomsky]

（Current studies in linguistics series, 42）

MIT Press, c2006

• : pbk

Note

Part I. Wh-phrases and pied-piping. -- Part II. Ā-chains and copy theory. -- Part III. Cyclicity and locality. -- Part IV. Wh-constructions

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• Lines of inquiry into wh-movement / Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Norbert Corver
• On wh-head movement / Caterina Donati
• The pied-piper feature / Akira Watanabe
• Pied-piping, feature movement, and wh-subjects / Brian Agbayani
• 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
• Conceptions of the cycle / Howard Lasnik
• On the relaxation of intervention effects / Toru Ishii
• Top issues in questions : topics-topicalization-topicalizability / Kleanthes K. Grohmann
• Mechanisms of wh-saturation and interpretation in multiple wh-movement / Balázs Surányi
• On the structural height of reason wh-adverbials : acquisition and consequences / Heejeong Ko

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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. Contributors Brian Agbayani, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Sandra Chung, Norbert Corver, Caterina Donati, Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Toru Ishii, Heejeong Ko, Howard Lasnik, Philip LeSourd, Chris H. Reintges, Luigi Rizzi, Balazs Suranyi, Akira Watanabe, Henrietta Yang

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• NCID: BA77100908
• ISBN:
  • 0262033461
  • 9780262532792
• LCCN: 2005058016
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 353 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P299.I57
  • DC22 : 415
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Interrogative
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word order
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
  • LCSH : Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00225015