Dimensions of Movement: From Features to Remnants (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)

This volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative research into the properties of phrasal and feature movement, which explore these key syntactic phenomena from different angles and across languages. The papers advance or build on models of movement which capitalize either on generalized feature movement or on generalized remnant movement. Both these approaches attempt to develop a restrictive theory of movement aiming at a simplification of the operations of the computational system. Despite the fact that they are so different technically, generalized feature movement and generalized remnant movement both push the theory of movement to the same direction in two important respects: elimination of head movement and elimination of covert movement. The book is of primary interest to researchers and students in theoretical linguistics and syntactic theory. 1. Introduction / Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Sjef Barbiers And Hans-martin Gartner -- 2. Raising Without Infinitives And The Role Of Agreement / Artemis Alexiadou And Elena Anagnostopoulou -- 3. Prosodic Diagnostics For Remnant Ap Movement In Polish / Piotr Banski -- 4. Remnant Stranding And The Theory Of Movement / Sjef Barbiers -- 5. Vos In Portuguese: Arguments Against An Analysis In Terms Of Remnant Movement / Joao Costa -- 6. Against Remnant Vp-movement / Gisbert Fanselow -- 7. Remnant Movement And Partial Deletion / Roland Hinterholzl -- 8. Derivations And Complexity Filters / Hilda Koopman -- 9. Feature Movement Or Agreement At A Distance? / Howard Lasnik -- 10. Two Types Of Remnant Movement / Gereon Muller -- 11. On Feature Movement / Masanori Nakamura -- 12. Cp-pied-piping And Remnant Ip Movement In Long Distance Wh-movement / Maire B. Noonan -- 13. Phrasal Movement In Hebrew Adjectives And Possessives / Ivy Sichel. Edited By Artemis Alexiadou ... [et Al.]. A Collection Of Papers From A Workshop On (remnant/feature) Movement Organized By The Research Centre For General Linguistics, The Linguistics Department Of The University Of Potsdam, And The Dutch Graduate School In Linguistics And Hosted In Potsdam In July 1999. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative research into the properties of phrasal and feature movement, which explore these key syntactic phenomena from different angles and across languages. The papers advance or build on models of movement which capitalize either on generalized feature movement or on generalized remnant movement. Both these approaches attempt to develop a restrictive theory of movement aiming at a simplification of the operations of the computational system. Despite the fact that they are so different technically, generalized feature movement and generalized remnant movement both push the theory of movement to the same direction in two important respects: (a) Elimination of head movement. (b) Elimination of covert movement. The book is of primary interest to researchers and students in theoretical linguistics and syntactic theory.