Volume 6 (Immobile wh-phrases in Tagalog)
<jats:p>I argue that overt movement cannot always be triggered by a need to create a specifier for the head bearing the Probe, as commonly assumed. In Tagalog, I claim, the best description of the behavior of wh-phrases is that they must become linearly adjacent to C; I show that Tagalog wh-ph...
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description | <jats:p>I argue that overt movement cannot always be triggered by a need to create a specifier for the head bearing the Probe, as commonly assumed. In Tagalog, I claim, the best description of the behavior of wh-phrases is that they must become linearly adjacent to C; I show that Tagalog wh-phrases in fact occupy several different structural positions which are consistent with this linear requirement.</jats:p> |
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spelling | mit-1721.1/1442902023-01-23T20:45:24Z Volume 6 (Immobile wh-phrases in Tagalog) Richards, Norvin Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy <jats:p>I argue that overt movement cannot always be triggered by a need to create a specifier for the head bearing the Probe, as commonly assumed. In Tagalog, I claim, the best description of the behavior of wh-phrases is that they must become linearly adjacent to C; I show that Tagalog wh-phrases in fact occupy several different structural positions which are consistent with this linear requirement.</jats:p> 2022-08-10T12:35:37Z 2022-08-10T12:35:37Z 2021 2022-08-09T17:27:25Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144290 Richards, Norvin. 2021. "Volume 6 (Immobile wh-phrases in Tagalog)." Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 6 (1). en 10.16995/GLOSSA.5762 Glossa: a journal of general linguistics Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Open Library of the Humanities Glossa |
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title | Volume 6 (Immobile wh-phrases in Tagalog) |
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