Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement by Jairo Nunes

By Jairo Nunes

This hugely unique monograph treats flow operations in the Minimalist software. Jairo Nunes argues that strains usually are not grammatical primitives and that their homes keep on with from deeper good points of the method, and, in specific, that the phonetic recognition of strains will depend on linearization computations coupled with economic system stipulations concerning deletion. He proposes a model of the replica conception of flow in accordance with which flow needs to be construed as an outline of the interplay of the autonomous operations reproduction, Merge, shape Chain, and Chain aid. Empirical proof to help this declare comprises circumstances of "sideward circulate" among subtrees in a derivation. based on this research, the linearization of chains within the phonological part constrains sideward circulate in order that it really is attainable to account for normal houses of a number of hole structures, together with parasitic hole and ATB buildings, with no construction-specific operations or rules that aren't independently motivated.Theoretical linguists will locate Linearization of Chains and Sideward move of significant curiosity either theoretically and empirically. The model of the replica concept of stream proposed by way of Nunes will stir debate and form destiny learn within the box.

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Consider the Serbo-Croatian sentences in (63) and (64), for instance. 27 (63) Serbo-Croatian (from Bosˇkovic´ 2000, 2002) a. Ko sˇta kupuje? who what buys b. *Ko kupuje sˇta? ’ (64) Serbo-Croatian (from Bosˇkovic´ 1999, 2002) a. *Sˇta sˇta uslovljava? what what conditions b. Sˇta uslovljava sˇta? ’ c. Sˇta neprestano sˇta uslovljava? what constantly what conditions d. Sˇta neprestano uslovljava sˇta? 28 (65) [sˇta sˇta i uslovljava sˇta i ] Bosˇkovic´ (2002) presents compelling evidence for this approach by showing that comparable instances of ‘‘exceptional’’ wh-in-situ in Romanian, as illustrated in (66b), are able to license parasitic gaps, as shown in (67).

54) a. [we talked [ PP about [ DP the [NP claim [CP that Mary will hire Peter]]]] i yesterday [ PP about [ DP the [NP claim [CP that Mary will hire Peter]]]] i ] 30 Chapter 1 b. 2 regarding nondistinctiveness and linearization, the complementary deletion operations of Wilder’s Chain-Internal Selective Deletion are required by linearization considerations: if some constituent of the PP chain in (54a) appears in both links, the structure cannot be linearized in accordance with the LCA and the derivation is canceled.

CP . . [CP #[C 0 #[C 0 #[C 0 #[C 0 WH i WH i WH i WH i [C 0 [C 0 [C 0 [C 0 C 0 ]#] C 0 ]#] C 0 ]#] C 0 ]#] [TP [TP [TP [TP . . WH i . . WH i . . WH i . . WH i . . ]]] . . ]]] . . ]]] . . 2, a structure containing a nontrivial chain cannot be linearized in accordance with the LCA; since the chain links are nondistinct, they induce violations of the asymmetry and irreflexivity conditions on linear order. By deleting chain links, Chain Reduction circumvents this problem and allows structures containing chains to be properly linearized.

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