The (in)distinction between wh-movement and c-selection

This thesis asks the following question: what can wh-movement teach us about verb phrase structure? I examine two apparent interactions between wh-movement and Voice: Mayan Agent Focus and the Double Object Movement Asymmetry (DOMA) (Holmberg et al., 2019). In certain Mayan languages, subject but no...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newman, Elise Sophia Bershad
Other Authors: David Pesetsky
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/140102
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7154-6922