Remnant Movement / / ed. by Günther Grewendorf.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Cecchetto, Carlo,; Collins, Chris,; Donati, Caterina,; Grewendorf, Günther,; Groat, Erich,; Müller, Gereon,; Poletto, Cecilia,; Pollock, Jean-Yves,; Sabel, Joachim,; Saito, Mamoru,; Takano, Yuji,; Williams, Edwin,
• HerausgeberIn: Grewendorf, Günther,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 123
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)

This book addresses two crucial problems associated with the phenomenon of Remnant Movement: First, what evidence can be brought to bear in favor of, or opposing, Remnant Movement analyses of linguistic phenomena? Secondly, what does the presence or absence of Remnant Movement in the syntax tell us about constraints imposed by Universal Grammar on syntactic operations?

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- Problems of remnant movement -- II. Constraints on remnant movement -- Minimality for Merge -- Remnant movement in local derivational grammar -- A C/I-interface constraint on remnant movement -- III. The domain of remnant movement -- Arguing for remnant movement in Romance -- Please do not move that remnant too much! -- Head movement and remnant movement -- IV. Remnant movement and the interfaces -- Remnant movement, radical reconstruction, and binding relations -- Total Transfer, Dynamic Labeling, and Transfer Remnants -- Index