Islands and Chains: Resumption As Stranding (Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today, LA 63)

236 Pages·2003·2.31 MB·English

by  Cedric Boeckx

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IslandsandChains
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IslandsandChains:Resumptionasstranding
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Islands and Chains
Resumption as stranding
Cedric Boeckx
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Contents

Preface xi
CHAPTER 1
Introduction 
1. Aspects of minimalism 2
1.1 Core operations 2
1.2 Successive cyclicity 6
1.3 Chains 3
2. Overview 4
3. Structure of the present volume 5
CHAPTER 2
The nature of resumption 7
1. Introduction 7
2. Proposal: resumption = stranding 25
2.1 Stranding 25
2.2 Ramifications 28
2.2.1 Successive cyclic steps 28
2.2.2 D-linked wh-phrases 29
2.2.3 Uninflected complementizers 33
2.2.4 Clitic doubling 35
2.2.5 A note on the absence of true adjunct RPs 37
2.3 Summary 38
3. Non-agreement, resumption, and (sub)extraction 38
3.1 The Left-Branch Condition 39
3.2 Non-agreement and subextraction 42
3.3 Non-agreement and resumption 46
3.4 Non-agreement and clitic doubling 50
4. A note on Quantifier Float 53
5. A note on Wh-agreement 56
6. Conclusion 63
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CHAPTER 3
On the nature of extraction 65
1. Preliminaries 65
1.1 Shortest 65
1.2 Agreement 67
2. The Case of Wh-phrases 72
3. On chains that are too strong 74
4. The basic cases 78
4.1 Prepositional objects 79
4.2 Bare objects 80
4.3 Subjects 83
4.4 Adjuncts 9
5. Islandhood 97
5.1 Preliminary remarks 98
5.2 Generalized Adjunct Condition 00
5.3 Extraction out of displaced constituents 02
5.4 Operator (weak) islands 05
5.5 Summary 08
6. Resumption and islandhood 08
6.1 No islands 09
6.2 Strong islands 0
6.3 All islands 3
7. Conclusion 7
CHAPTER 4
Further aspects of resumption 9
1. Elaborate patterns 9
1.1 Irish 9
1.2 Selayarese 24
2. Resumptive pronoun fronting 25
2.1 Irish 25
2.2 RP-cliticization 28
2.3 Hebrew 28
3. Bare adjunct NPs 30
4. Multiple A-bar dependencies 32
4.1 Interaction between Topicalization/Wh-movement and
Left-Dislocation 33
4.2 Multiple questions 38
Contents ix
5. Base-generation? 42
5.1 PP Dislocation 43
5.2 Intrusion 46
6. Pending issues 50
6.1 Parasitic gaps 50
6.2 Weak Crossover 52
6.3 Reconstruction 55
6.4 The Wh/Relative clause contrast 57
7. Conclusion 59
CHAPTER 5
Conclusion 6
Notes 63
References 92
Name index 23
Language index 27
Subject index 29