Movement And Silence

by Kayne, Richard S.

• ISBN13: 9780195179163
• ISBN10: 0195179161
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume collects important recent articles by the distinguished formal linguist and syntactician Richard Kayne. They range widely in topic and theme, illustrating the power of the comparative approach and reinforcing Kayne's view that syntax, while generally more complex than it first appears, can have its secrets revealed by sustained theoretical work. The essays explore the syntax of silent elements, offer specific insights into the nature of comparative syntax, and investigate the pervasive role that Kayne takes leftward movement to play in grammar.

Author Biography

Richard S. Kayne is Professor of Linguistics at New York University

Table of Contents

1. New Thoughts on Stylistic Inversion (in collaboration with Jean-Yves Pollock)	3	(47)
1.1. Proposal	5	(1)
1.2. The position of the postverbal subject	5	(2)
1.3. The position of the postverbal subject bis	7	(2)
1.4. The position of the postverbal subject ter	9	(3)
1.5. Leftward raising of the SI subject out of IP	12	(6)
1.6. Non-Wh-SI with indicatives	18	(2)
1.7. An ECM effect	20	(1)
1.8. Subjunctive SI	21	(3)
1.9. Subjunctives versus indicatives	24	(3)
1.10. Quirky subjects	27	(4)
1.11. Expletives	31	(1)
1.12. SI "triggers"	32	(5)
1.13. SI and post-subject complements	37	(4)
1.14. SI with more than one verb	41	(2)
1.15. SI and direct objects	43	(3)
1.16. Strong focalization SI	46	(1)
1.17. Successive cyclicity	47	(1)
1.18. Conclusion	48	(2)
2. On the Left Edge in UG: A Reply to McCloskey	50	(7)
2.1. Uniform movement	50	(1)
2.2. Irish	51	(1)
2.3. Too and Heavy-NP Shift	52	(1)
2.4. Leftward movement past if	53	(3)
2.5. Conclusion	56	(1)
3. Review of Paola Benincà, La variazione sintattica	57	(8)
3.1. Dialect syntax	57	(1)
3.2. Subject clitics and null subjects	58	(5)
3.3. Diachronic syntax	63	(2)
4. Here and There	65	(20)
4.1. Demonstrative there	65	(2)
4.2. Locatives	67	(5)
4.2.1. THIS/THAT and PLACE	67	(3)
4.2.2. The adposition requirement	70	(2)
4.3. Non-locative there	72	(8)
4.4. French and Italian	80	(2)
4.5. Number	82	(3)
5. Prepositions as Probes	85	(20)
5.1. Internal Merge and (some) prepositions	85	(1)
5.2. Causatives in French	86	(15)
5.2.1. "Dativization" of the subject of a transitive infinitive	86	(1)
5.2.2. This à looks like a preposition	87	(2)
5.2.3. This causative construction is not an instance of control	89	(1)
5.2.4. An ECM analysis	90	(3)
5.2.5. French and English	93	(1)
5.2.6. English double-object sentences	94	(1)
5.2.7. à as probe	95	(1)
5.2.8. Word order	96	(2)
5.2.9. Complementizers	98	(1)
5.2.10. Finite complementizers	99	(1)
5.2.11. Case	100	(1)
5.3. Conclusion	101	(1)
5.4. Appendix: Constituent Structure	101	(4)
6. Pronouns and Their Antecedents	105	(31)
6.1. Binding as movement	105	(1)
6.2. Clitic doubling	106	(1)
6.3. Antecedent and pronoun	107	(1)
6.4. Control	108	(1)
6.5. Merge and Move	109	(1)
6.6. Condition C	109	(2)
6.7. More on Condition C and on apparently antecedent-less pronouns	111	(3)
6.8. Strong crossover	114	(2)
6.9. Condition B	116	(5)
6.10. Why are there reflexives?	121	(1)
6.11. English-type reflexives	121	(2)
6.12. Zich-type reflexives	123	(2)
6.13. Backward pronominalization	125	(2)
6.14. Epithets again	127	(2)
6.15. Condition C reconstruction effects	129	(2)
6.16. Further Condition C reconstruction effects	131	(1)
6.17. Sideward movement	132	(1)
6.18. Circularity	133	(1)
6.19. Transitivity of coreference	133	(1)
6.20. Split antecedents and overlapping reference	134	(1)
6.21. Conclusion	135	(1)
7. On Some Prepositions That Look DP-Internal: English of and French de	136	(40)
7.1. Mostly English	136	(26)
7.1.1. Subextraction	136	(1)
7.1.2. P and K merged above VP	137	(2)
7.1.3. Of and Case theory	139	(3)
7.1.4. Case is limited to lexical items	142	(1)
7.1.5. English few and little; unpronounced NUMBER and AMOUNT	143	(6)
7.1.6. Unpronounced MANY and MUCH	149	(3)
7.1.7. More on Case	152	(3)
7.1.8. Phi-feature agreement	155	(4)
7.1.9. A little and a lot	159	(3)
7.2. Mostly French	162	(13)
7.2.1. French de as parallel to English of	162	(1)
7.2.2. QP movement in French	163	(2)
7.2.3. QP movement as remnant movement	165	(1)
7.2.4. Past participle agreement	166	(1)
7.2.5. The blocking effect of prepositions	167	(2)
7.2.6. Combien	169	(4)
7.2.7. More on remnant movement of peu	173	(2)
7.3. Conclusion	175	(1)
8. A Note on the Syntax of Quantity in English	176	(39)
8.1. Few and NUMBER	176	(5)
8.2. The preposing of few within DP	181	(3)
8.3. AP movement within DP	184	(3)
8.4. Bare few	187	(1)
8.5. A few	188	(3)
8.6. Many	191	(3)
8.7. GOOD	194	(3)
8.8. Numerous	197	(3)
8.9. Polarity and modification	200	(4)
8.10. Scope in English and French	204	(3)
8.11. Many a	207	(2)
8.12. Quite a few	209	(1)
8.13. Polarity and few and little	210	(2)
8.14. Conclusion	212	(1)
8.15. Appendix: Principle of Decompositionality	212	(3)
9. Antisymmetry and Japanese	215	(26)
9.1. Antisymmetry	215	(2)
9.2. Japanese	217	(3)
9.2.1. The position of objects	217	(1)
9.2.2. Relative pronouns	218	(1)
9.2.3. Head finality	219	(1)
9.3. Additional cross-linguistic "gaps"	220	(6)
9.3.1. Serial verbs	220	(1)
9.3.2. Aux V versus V Aux	221	(1)
9.3.3. Adverbs and ("heavy") objects	221	(3)
9.3.4. OVX languages	224	(1)
9.3.5. Subordinating conjunctions	224	(1)
9.3.6. Negation and auxiliaries	225	(1)
9.3.7. DP	225	(1)
9.4. Some modifications	226	(14)
9.4.1. Word order in adjuncts and in complements	226	(1)
9.4.2. Adpositions and complementizers	227	(1)
9.4.3. (Remnant) VP-movement	228	(2)
9.4.4. Postpositions	230	(2)
9.4.5. Prepositional complementizers	232	(2)
9.4.6. Nonprepositional complementizers	234	(5)
9.4.7. Final complementizers	239	(1)
9.5. Conclusion	240	(1)
10. Silent Years, Silent Hours	241	(20)
10.1. NUMBER and COLOR	241	(2)
10.2. Age	243	(7)
10.3. French and Italian	250	(5)
10.4. Some further remarks on silent nouns and time	255	(5)
10.5. Conclusion	260	(1)
11. Some Remarks on Agreement and on Heavy-NP Shift	261	(16)
11.1. Agreement	261	(8)
11.2. Heavy-NP Shift	269	(8)
12. Some Notes on Comparative Syntax: With Special Reference to English and French	277	(58)
12.1. Generalities	277	(8)
12.1.1. Parameters	277	(3)
12.1.2. Microcomparative syntax and microparameters	280	(5)
12.2. How many parameters? How many languages?	285	(4)
12.2.1. How many functional elements?	285	(3)
12.2.2. How many parameters per functional element?	288	(1)
12.3. Some parameters having to do with nonpronunciation	289	(25)
12.3.1. Pronunciation versus nonpronunciation: the case of French -aine and English -AINE	289	(5)
12.3.2. Nonpronunciation and licensing: the case of something heavy	294	(1)
12.3.3. Determiners and unpronounced EVER	295	(2)
12.3.4. "Extraposition" differences	297	(1)
12.3.5. Quantity word differences and nonpronunciation	298	(9)
12.3.6. A licensing parameter possibly reinterpreted as a movement parameter	307	(4)
12.3.7. Missing Wh-words	311	(3)
12.4. Related parameters	314	(10)
12.4.1. The indefinite article	314	(2)
12.4.2. The categorial status of few and little versus pen	316	(5)
12.4.3. In what sense can a difference in category be a parameter?	321	(3)
12.5. Comparative syntax and Greenbergian typology	324	(9)
12.5.1. Syntactic data	324	(2)
12.5.2. Missing languages	326	(1)
12.5.3. English and Haitian	327	(1)
12.5.4. Adpositions	328	(2)
12.5.5. Movement as a side effect of doubling	330	(1)
12.5.6. Feature-driven movement or "closeness-driven" movement?	331	(2)
12.6. Conclusion	333	(2)
Bibliography	335	(20)
Index	355