Verb phrase movement as a window into head movement
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https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v1i0.3714Keywords:
chain reduction, remnant movement, copy theory of movement, head movement, conflation, syntax-morphology interfaceAbstract
Since Chomsky 2001 suggested that head movement might be a PF operation, there has been debate about the proper place of head movement in the grammar. The interaction of verb movement with verb phrase fronting can shed light on how and when head movement occurs. This paper looks at cases where verb phrase fronting generates two copies of the verb (as in Portuguese or Hebrew), one in the fronted vP and one in an inflectional position, showing how a PF approach to head movement can explain this pattern while addressing some potential problems in other languages.Downloads
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2016-06-12
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Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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LaCara, Nicholas Joseph. 2016. “Verb Phrase Movement As a Window into Head Movement”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 1 (June): 17:1–14. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v1i0.3714.