On Pied-Piping : : Wh-Movement and Beyond / / Fabian Heck.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Heck, Fabian,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 98
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. Pied-Piping Generalizations --; Chapter 3. Theoretical Background --; Chapter 4. Deriving the Generalizations, Part --; One --; Chapter 5. Deriving the Generalizations, Part --; Two --; Chapter 6. Conclusion --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110211467; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110212129; 9783110212136; 9783110209457
• ISSN: 0167-4331
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110211467
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Fabian Heck.

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.