Agreement and Head Movement

by Roberts, Ian G.

• ISBN13: 9780262514323
• ISBN10: 026251432X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-30
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

In Agreement and Head Movement,Ian Roberts explores the consequences of Chomsky's conjecture that head-movement is not part of the narrow syntax, the computational system that relates the lexicon to the interfaces. Unlike other treatments of the subject that discard the concept entirely, Roberts's monograph retains the core intuition behind head-movement and examines to what extent it can be reformulated and rethought. Roberts argues that the current conception of syntax must accommodate a species of head-movement, although this operation differs somewhat in technical detail and in empirical coverage from earlier understandings of it. He proposes that head-movement is part of the narrow syntax and that it applies where the goal of an Agree relation is defective, in a sense that he defines. Roberts argues that the theoretical status of head-movement is very similar-in fact identical in various ways-to that of XP-movement. Thus head-movement, like XP-movement, should be regarded as part of narrow syntax exactly to the extent that XP-movement should be. If one aspect of minimalist theorizing is to eliminate unnecessary distinctions, then Roberts's argument can be seen as eliminating the distinction between "heads" and "phrases" in relation to internal merge (and therefore reducing the distinctions currently made between internal and external merge). Linguistic Inquiry Monographs 59

Author Biography

Ian Roberts is Professor of Linguistics at Cambridge University.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
LF-Effects of Head Movement	p. 7
Head Movement and Licensing Polarity Items	p. 8
Lechner (2005) on Semantically Active Head Movement (SAHM)	p. 13
Remnant Movement and LF-Effects	p. 17
The Lack of Semantic Effects of Head Movement: Matushansky (2006)	p. 23
Conclusion	p. 28
Head Movement and Pied-Piping	p. 29
Structure Preservation	p. 30
Chain Uniformity	p. 31
The A-over-A Condition	p. 33
Conclusion	p. 38
Cliticization	p. 41
Introduction: Minimal Phases	p. 41
Movement to a Minimal Category	p. 50
Phase Heads as Targets of Cliticization: Adverbal and Second-Position Clitics	p. 65
Cyclic Clitic Movement: Clitic Climbing	p. 75
"Clitic Climbing" in Compound Tenses	p. 76
Clitic Climbing in Restructuring Contexts	p. 79
Clitics in Causative Constructions	p. 90
Conclusion	p. 101
Subject Clitics	p. 102
Cliticization to T: Subject Clitics in Northern Italian and Tuscan Dialects	p. 102
Subject Cliticization to C in Rhaeto-Romansch and Elsewhere	p. 114
Subject-Clitic Merger in v: si/se Constructions	p. 120
Conclusion	p. 127
Other Aspects of Romance Cliticization	p. 128
Complement Clitic Doubling	p. 128
Indirect-Object Clitics, Clitic Clusters, and the Person-Case Constraint	p. 139
Cliticization to P and Elsewhere	p. 149
Conclusion	p. 155
Verb Movement and Incorporation	p. 157
Verb Movement	p. 158
Verb Movement and the A-over-A Principle	p. 158
V-to-T Movement	p. 159
Verb Second	p. 168
Conclusion	p. 183
Incorporation	p. 183
Verb Incorporation	p. 183
A Note on Noun Incorporation	p. 188
Conclusion	p. 191
Head Movement and the Theory of Movement	p. 193
The Head Movement Constraint	p. 193
Excorporation	p. 206
Types of Movement	p. 208
Conclusions	p. 213
Notes	p. 217
References	p. 253
Index	p. 277
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