ENGLISH

Triggers

By Anne Breitbarth , Henk Van Riemsdijk (Eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
2004
ISBN
3110181398, 9783110181395
LCC
P291 .T75 2004
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1432823 bytes)
Series
Studies in Generative Grammar 75
Pages
504\504
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

A large part of syntax is concerned with movement. Accordingly, one of the most central questions of syntax is why elements move at all, and why they move to certain specific positions. A powerful idea of current syntactic theorizing is that certain morphosyntactic features must be checked by some element moving to their position and thereby act as triggers for movement. This book addresses the appropriateness of such an approach and discusses in detail the ways in which syntactic theory should deal with triggering mechanisms, what triggers should be allowed, and how a variety of constructions in more than a dozen languages can be adequately handled in terms of trigger theory.

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