Provocative syntax / Phil Branigan.
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TextSeries: Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 61.Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 176 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9780262295673
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- 1283119153
- 9781283119153
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses
- Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
- English language -- Syntax
- Syntaxe
- Propositions (Linguistique)
- Minimalisme (Linguistique)
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax
- English language -- Syntax
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
- Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General
- 415 22
- P291 .B69 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index.
Provocation. Introduction -- The inner workings of provocation -- Virtues of provocation -- Clausal provocation -- Chain formation -- Provoking head movement -- Provocative case studies. Quotative inversion -- Negative inversion -- Germanic verb-second clauses -- Force and provocation. Evidence for fin-to-force movement -- On wh-movement -- The distribution of embedded-verb second clauses -- Appendix: selection of clausal complements -- Provoking trace deletion. Introduction -- That-trace effects -- Crosslinguistic variation -- A spooky constraint -- Short wh-movement in embedded questions.
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After presenting the central proposal and showing its implementation in the analyses of familiar cases of syntactic movement, Branigan demonstrates the effects of provocation in a variety of inversion constructions, describes the details of chain formation and successive cyclic movement in a provocation model, and much more.
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