The ban on headless XP-movement is not narrow syntactic
This paper argues that the ban on headless XP-movement should not be captured in narrow syntactic terms. That is, there is no constraint in the syntactic computation preventing remnant movement of a phrase from which the head has been extracted, i.e., so-called Takano’s Generalization is wrong. This...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2021-09-01
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| Series: | Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/cel/article/view/8661432 |
| Summary: | This paper argues that the ban on headless XP-movement should not be captured in narrow syntactic terms. That is, there is no constraint in the syntactic computation preventing remnant movement of a phrase from which the head has been extracted, i.e., so-called Takano’s Generalization is wrong. This is demonstrated through a case study of the emphatic doubling construction in Rioplatense Spanish, which requires a derivation proceeding exactly along these lines. It is further argued that the relevant prohibition should be stated as a condition that applies at PF: A preliminary conjecture on the nature of this prohibition is also offered. |
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| ISSN: | 2447-0686 |