Movement In Language: Interactions And Architectures (oxford Linguistics)

This Book Will Interest Syntacticians At Graduate Level And Above As Well As Linguistic Theorists Concerned With The Syntax-semantics Interface.--jacket. 1. Introduction. 1. Proposals. 2. Assumptions -- 2. Subjacency Forever. 1. Problems: Levels And Taxes. 2. Wh-islands -- 3. Featural Cyclicity And The Ordering Of Multiple Specifiers. 1. Multiple Wh-movement. 2. Multiple A-specifiers. 3. Object Shift. 4. Spec Negp. 5. Cliticization. 6. Quantifier Raising. 7. Freedom Of Ordering. 8. Shortest Move. 9. Equidistance -- 4. Grappling With The Ineffable. 1. Overt Movement To 'weak' Positions. 2. Destroying The Evidence: Ellipsis. 3. Bottom-heavy Chains. 4. An Embarrassment Of Riches: Movement To Two Strong Features -- 5. The Principle Of Minimal Compliance. 1. Introduction. 2. Static Applications Of The Pmc. 3. Dynamic Applications Of The Pmc, Part I: The Attractor. 4. Dynamic Applications Of The Pmc, Part Ii: The Islands. 5. Path Containment Condition. 6. Some Possible Further Expansions. 7. Is The Pmc Recursive? -- 6. Conclusion. Norvin Richards. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [308]-321) And Index.