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Subject(s)

• Generative grammar [Browse]
• Grammar, Comparative and general [Browse]

Series

• Studies in generative grammar ; 98. [More in this series]
• Studies in generative grammar ; 98 [More in this series]

Subseries of

Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

Summary note

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.

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• 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

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ISBN

• 1-283-39814-1
• 9786613398147
• 3-11-021146-7

OCLC

• 476206331
• 646769743
• 703226811

Doi

• 10.1515/9783110211467

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