Generalized head movement

Authors

  • Karlos Arregi University of Chicago
  • Asia Pietraszko

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4285

Keywords:

head movement, lowering, Mirror Principle, Head Movement Constraint, V2, ellipsis, do-support, relative clauses, vowel coalescence, Ndebele, Danish

Abstract

We argue for a unified account of head movement and lowering in which lowering is in essence the covert movement counterpart of head movement. This proposal is supported by the existence of successive cyclic lowering (evidenced by relative prefix formation in Ndebele), in which complex heads built by lowering have the Mirror-Principle-obeying structure expected under a head movement derivation. It also predicts that lowering can feed head movement, giving the appearance of long head movement, which we argue is the case in Mainland Scandinavian V2.

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Published

2018-03-03

Issue

Vol. 3 (2018): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

Section

Articles

License

Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.

How to Cite

Arregi, Karlos, and Asia Pietraszko. 2018. “Generalized Head Movement”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 3 (1): 5:1–5. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4285.