Phrasal Movement and Its Kin (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

This study investigates the types of movement and movement-like relations that linkpositions in syntactic structure. David Pesetsky argues that there are three such relations. Besidesovert phasal movement, there are two distinct types of movement without phonological effect: covertphrasal movement and feature movement. Focusing on wh-questions, he shows how his classification ofmovement-like relations allows us to understand the story behind wh-questions in which an otherwiseinviolable property of movement--"Attract Closest"--appears to be violated. By demonstrating thatmore movement takes place in such configurations than previously suspected, he shows that AttractClosest is actually not violated at all in these cases. This conclusion draws on recent research inboth syntax and semantics, and depends crucially on Pesetsky's expanded repertoire of movement-likerelations.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 37