Minimalist Syntax for Quantifier Raising, Topicalization and Focus Movement: A Search and Float Approach for Internal Merge

• Main Author: Abe, Jun. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 93
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Languages.; Language and languages.; Japanese language.; Syntax.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319473048
• Physical Description: VIII, 240 p. online resource.

This volume examines how the displacement property of language is characterized in formal terms under the Minimalist Program and to what extent this proposed characterization of it can explain relevant displacement properties. The birth of the Principles and Parameters Approach makes it possible to...