Triggers /
"A large part of syntax is concerned with movement. Accordingly, one of the most central questions of syntax is why elements move at all, and why they move to certain specific positions. A powerful idea of current syntactic theorizing is that certain morpho-syntactic features must be checked by...
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| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
2004.
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| Series: | Studies in generative grammar ;
75. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "A large part of syntax is concerned with movement. Accordingly, one of the most central questions of syntax is why elements move at all, and why they move to certain specific positions. A powerful idea of current syntactic theorizing is that certain morpho-syntactic features must be checked by some element moving to their position and thereby act as triggers for movement. This book addresses the appropriateness of such an approach and discusses in detail the ways in which syntactic theory should deal with triggering mechanisms, what triggers should be allowed, and how a variety of constructions in more than a dozen languages can be adequately handled in terms of trigger theory"--Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 496 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110197433 311019743X 9783110181395 3110181398 1283396491 9781283396493 9786613396495 6613396494 |
