AGREE AND COVERT PHRASAL MOVEMENT

, movement , and phrasal stress

In this paper, we report the results of an experiment concerning the eVect of object clauses on phrasal stress of the matrix verb. The presentation of the experiment is embedded in a discussion of the interaction of phrasal stress with movement in German. Section 10.2 includes some background on stress assignment and an introduction to the interaction of syntactic movement with the assignment o...

(dis)agree: Movement and Agreement Reconsidered

Title of Dissertation: (DIS)AGREE: MOVEMENT AND AGREEMENT RECONSIDERED Pritha Chandra, Ph.D., 2007 Directed By: Professor Norbert Hornstein Department of Linguistics This dissertation examines Agree, a narrow syntactic, long-distance operation underlying phi-agreement in the grammar. Taking the strong minimalist thesis (cf. Chomsky 2000) as my point of departure, I question Agree on both concep...

Covert Movement in Logical Grammar

From the mid-1970s until the emergence of Chomsky’s Minimalist Program (MP, Chomsky 1995) in the 1990s, the mainstream of research on natural-language syntax in much of the world embraced a theoretical architecture for syntactic derivations that came to be known as the T-model. According to this model, which underlay Chomsky’s (1976, 1977) Extended Standard Theory (EST) of the 1970s and its suc...

Investigations of covert phrase movement

Against Covert A-Movement in Russian Unaccusatives