Smuggling in syntax:
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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Belletti, Adriana (HerausgeberIn), Collins, Chris 1963- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Oxford studies comparative syntax
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Abstract:"One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. Syntactic theory has long been concerned with properties of movement, including locality restrictions. This work investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focussing on the special case of smuggling. The contributions in this volume each describe different areas where smuggling derivations play a role, including passives, causatives, adverb placement, the dative alternation, the placement of measure phrases, wh-in-situ and word order in ergative languages. Other issues addressed in the volume include the freezing constraint on movement and the acquisition of smuggling derivations by children"--
Umfang:355 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780197509876
9780197509869