Verb Movement

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Paperback | 30 May 1994

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Work on the movement of phrasal categories has been a central element of syntactic theorizing since the earliest work on generative grammar. Work on the movement of lexical elements, heads, however, has been much less central until recent years. Chomsky''s Empty Category Principle, requiring empty elements to be properly governed and requiring certain movement traces to act as proper governors, stimulated research on the properties of heads and how they behave with respect to movement operations. This in turn led to Travis'' Head Movement Constraint and Baker''s work on incorporation, and to Pollock''s influential splitting of INFL (and thus the successive movement of finite verbs to their surface position). Parallel to these theoretical concerns, much attention has been focused on the description of verb-second languages and on the movement operations which place the verb in its ''second'' position. This volume represents the latest work in an important field, from some of its leading researchers, and puts forward many ideas about relevant principles and parameters of Universal Grammar. It will have a significant impact on its field.

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List of contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Verb movement: an introduction	p. 1
Verb positions: evidence from Italian	p. 19
Verb movement and word order in Arabic	p. 41
Comments on the paper by Ouhalla	p. 73
Some similarities and differences between Icelandic and Yiddish	p. 87
Comments on the paper by Santorini	p. 107
Finite verb movement in Scandinavian embedded clauses	p. 117
Comments on the paper by Vikner	p. 149
The Brythonic copula and head raising	p. 163
A reinterpretation of evidence for verb movement in French	p. 189
Two types of head movement in Romance	p. 207
Comments on the paper by Roberts	p. 243
Licensing heads	p. 261
Comments on the paper by Koopman	p. 297
Finiteness and head movement in early child grammars	p. 305
Comments on the paper by Wexler	p. 351
References	p. 363
Index	p. 383
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