On Pied-Piping

Wh-Movement and Beyond
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-020605-0
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 98, 401 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

Pied-piping, the phenomenon that wh-movement may target categories not marked with the feature [wh], has generally been considered idiosyncratic and pathological. On Pied-Piping argues that this assessment is not correct. The book presents a compilation of crosslinguistic generalizations on pied-piping and a theory that derives them. Pied-piping is incorporated into a derivational theory of successive cyclic wh-movement that includes input-output optimization, the operation Agree, and phase theory. The resulting theory is a step towards closing a long-standing gap in syntactic theorizing.

Zielgruppe

Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students with an Interest in the Field of Generative Linguistics (Syntactic Theories)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heck, Fabian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik

Über Autor(innen)

Fabian Heck, University of Leipzig, Germany.