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

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...

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Main Author Abe, Jun (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesStudies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 93
Subjects
Linguistics.
Languages.
Language and languages.
Japanese language.
Syntax.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319473048
ISSN0924-4670 ;
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-47304-8
Physical DescriptionVIII, 240 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Mechanism of Search and Float for Internal Merge
  • 2.1 Minimal Search
  • 2.2 Float
  • 3 Search and Float for Covert Movement
  • 3.1 Minimal Search and Float for Quantifier Raising
  • 3.2 Covert Wh-Movement
  • 3.3 Covert Oblique Movement of Wh-Phrases
  • 4 Case Study I: Plurals and Reciprocals
  • 4.1 The Cumulative Reading and Clause-Boundedness
  • 4.2 The Cumulative Reading and Rigidity
  • 4.3 Reciprocals
  • 4.4 Sternefeld's (1993) Problem and Further Evidence for QR
  • 4.5 Clause-Boundedness and Condition A
  • 5 Case Study II: Multiple Wh-Questions in Japanese
  • 5.1 Absorption in Japanese Multiple Wh-Questions
  • 5.2 The Scope of Multiple Wh-Phrases that Undergo Absorption
  • 5.3 What is the Trigger of a Wh-Argument Being Merged with Another
  • 5.3.1 Cumulative Readings in Multiple Wh-Questions
  • 5.3.2 Pair-List Readings of Multiple Wh-Questions
  • 5.4 Intervention Effects and MCL
  • 5.5 Pair-List Readings of Plural Dono N-Phrases
  • 5.6 Apparent Pair-List Readings
  • 6 Search and Float for Topicalization and Focalization
  • 6.1 Licensing [S-Focus] Features
  • 6.2 Minimal Search and MCL for Licensing [S-Focus] Features
  • 6.3 Wh-Movement for Licensing [S-Focus] Features
  • 6.4 Licensing [S-Focus] Features in Ellipsis
  • Appendix Focus Movement and QR
  • 7 Conclusions
  • Index.

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