On Pied-Piping
Author : Fabian Heck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2008-11-03
ISBN 10 : 9783110211467
Pages : 413 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (114 downloads)
Download On Pied-Piping PDF Full Free by Fabian Heck and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pied-piping, the phenomenon that wh-movement may target categories not marked with the feature [wh], has generally been considered idiosyncratic and pathological. On Pied-Piping argues that this assessment is not correct. The book presents a compilation of crosslinguistic generalizations on pied-piping and a theory that derives them. Pied-piping is incorporated into a derivational theory of successive cyclic wh-movement that includes input-output optimization, the operation Agree, and phase theory. The resulting theory is a step towards closing a long-standing gap in syntactic theorizing.