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Phases: An Essay on Cyclicity in Syntax

Phases: An Essay on Cyclicity in Syntax

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Series: Linguistische Arbeiten, Book 543

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 3110482118
ISBN13: 9783110482119
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Jun 20 2016
Pages: 331
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The minimalist notion of a phase has often been investigated with a view to the interfaces. 'Phases' provides a strictly syntax-internal perspective.
If phases are fundamental, they should provide the grounds for a unifying treatment of different syntactic phenomena. Concentrating on displacement, the book argues that this expectation is borne out: there is an empirical clustering of properties, whereby the phrases that undergo pied-piping are also the phrases that host intermediate traces of cyclic movement. The same phrases also host partial and secondary movement. Finally, the immediate complements within these phrases never strand the embedding heads. The phrases that show this behaviour are the phases (CP, vP, DP, and PP).

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