Two Components of Long-Distance Extraction: Successive Cyclicity in Dinka

This article presents novel data from the Nilotic language Dinka, in which the syntax of successive-cyclic movement is remarkably transparent. We show that Dinka provides strong support for the view that long-distance extraction proceeds through the edge of every verb phrase and every clause on the...

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Main Authors: van Urk, Coppe, Richards, Norvin W.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96362
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4510-536X
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5564-6317