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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:39:18
From: Helen van der Stelt [Helen.vanderStelt at springer.com]
Subject: Minimalist Syntax for Quantifier Raising, Topicalization and Focus Movement: A Search and Float Approach for Internal Merge: Abe

 


Title: Minimalist Syntax for Quantifier Raising, Topicalization and
Focus Movement: A Search and Float Approach for Internal Merge 
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Springer
	   http://www.springer.com
	

Book URL: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319473031 


Author: Jun Abe

Hardback: ISBN:  9783319473031 Pages: 248 Price: Europe EURO 89.99


Abstract:

This volume examines how the displacement property of language is
characterized in formal terms under the Minimalist Program and to what extent
this proposed characterization of it can explain relevant displacement
properties. The birth of the Principles and Parameters Approach makes it
possible to simplify transformational rules so radically as to be reduced to
the single rule Move. The author proposes that Move, as conceived as a special
case of Merge, named internal Merge, under the Minimalist Program requires two
prerequisite operations: one is to “dig” into a structure to find a target of
Merge, called Search, and the other is to make this target reach the top of
the structure, called Float. The author argues that these two different
operations are constrained by “minimal computation.” Due to the nature of how
they apply, these operations are constrained by this economy condition in such
a way that Search must be minimal and Float obeys Minimize chain links, which
requires that this operation cannot skip possible landing sites. The author
demonstrates that this mechanism of minimal Search and Float deals with a
variety of phenomena that involve quantifier raising, such as rigidity effects
of scope interaction, the availability of cumulative readings of plural
relation sentences and pair-list readings of multiple wh-questions. Also
demonstrated in this volume is that the same mechanism properly captures the
locality effects of topicalization, focus movement, and ellipsis with
contrastive focus.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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