On Pied-Piping

ISBN-13: 9783110206050 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 413 str.

Fabian Heck

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"Stepping aside theoretical and methodological issues, Heck has clearly done a tremendous job in gathering together a typologically diverse set of languages and providing a small range of generalizations that account for the apparent variety of PiPing."Joshua Bowles in Linguist List 20.2283

O autorze

Fabian Heck, University of Leipzig, Germany.