Phases (eBook)

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Klaus Abels, UCL London, UK.

Klaus Abels, UCL London, UK.

List of glosses used 9
1 Introduction 11
1.1 Overview 16
1.2 Theoretical sketch 18
2 On successive-cyclic movement 23
2.1 Introduction 23
2.2 Are movement paths punctuated or uniform? 27
2.2.1 What constitutes a valid argument for punctuated paths? 27
2.2.2 Proposed evidence for punctuated paths (Abels 2003c) 29
2.2.3 Reconstruction in Norwegian 33
2.2.4 Evidence from ellipsis 37
2.2.5 Parasitic gaps (Nissenbaum, 2001) 51
2.2.6 A point of logic: Condition C and scope for binding 55
2.2.7 Conclusion 55
2.3 The edge of CP as a landing site of successive-cyclic movement 57
2.4 Reflection 66
3 Some properties of movement 73
3.1 Introduction 73
3.2 Partial movement 74
3.3 Pied-piping 79
3.4 Secondary movement 84
3.5 Reflection 91
4 The theory of cyclicity and phases 97
4.1 Configurations for feature-sharing 99
4.2 Movement and last resort 113
4.3 Phase impenetrability 120
4.3.1 Phases and sub-numerations 121
4.3.2 Phase impenetrability and islands 125
4.3.3 The stranding generalization 128
4.4 Phase heads and their features 129
4.4.1 Implementing successive cyclicity 130
4.4.2 Morphological parameterization 132
4.4.3 Extraction in Austronesian 143
5 Feature Values and Interpretation 149
5.1 Feature interpretation 149
5.2 Towards a precise formulation 151
5.3 Possible systems based on a single feature: A dry run 154
5.3.1 [uF.] probes 155
5.3.2 [uF..] probes 157
5.3.3 [uF.] probes 161
5.4 The generalizations 163
5.4.1 Partial Movement 163
5.4.2 Pied-piping and secondary movement 167
5.5 Wh-movement in various languages 175
5.5.1 Single-Wh-movement languages: English, French, Italian 176
5.5.2 Multiple-Wh-fronting languages 183
5.5.3 Wh-in-situ 187
5.6 Summary 190
6 The phase heads v, C, P and the stranding generalization 191
6.1 VP immobility under v 191
6.1.1 VPs are mobile 191
6.1.2 VPs do not strand v 193
6.2 TP immobility under C 195
6.2.1 TPs do not strand C 195
6.2.2 TPs are mobile 199
6.2.3 The ban on C-stranding, word order, and cartography 201
6.2.4 Is there long TP movement? 206
6.3 DP immobility under P 210
6.3.1 PP pied-piping 212
6.3.2 Subextraction 214
6.4 Conclusion 229
7 On adposition stranding 231
7.1 Trace or null resumptive? 231
7.2 P-stranding in German and Dutch 239
7.2.1 R-words are not pronouns 242
7.2.2 R-words are not complements of P 245
7.2.3 So what are R-words? And where? 248
7.3 P-stranding languages 253
7.3.1 Special clitics as the complement of adpositions 254
7.3.2 Was für split 260
7.3.3 Adposition stranding and D-to-P incorporation 265
7.3.4 The pseudo passive 267
7.3.5 Adposition stranding and verbal particles 271
7.3.6 Implications 276
7.4 Conclusion 277
8 Phases 285
9 Bibliography 287
10 Index 319