On Pied-Piping: Wh-Movement and Beyond / Edition 1

by Fabian Heck

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110206050
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	09/16/2008
Series:	Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , #98
Pages:	413
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Fabian Heck, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Editorial Reviews

"Stepping aside theoretical and methodological issues, Heck has clearly done a tremendous job in gathering together a typologically diverse set of languages and providing a small range of generalizations that account for the apparent
variety of PiPing."
Joshua Bowles in Linguist List 20.2283

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