Featural or Phrasal: Evidence from Wh-Movement in Japanese (D. Pesetsky, Phrasal Movement and Its Kin)

, 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...

Phrasal typology and the interaction of topicalization, wh-movement, and extraposition

(6) Whoi do you know [thati you can really trust]? (7) Which argumenti do you know [thati Sandy thought was unconvincing]? One could assume that the contrast illustrated in (1) to (5) can be accounted for by considering the grammaticalized discourse functions of the dislocated phrases. In the ungrammatical cases in (2) and (5), the dislocated phrase can be considered a grammaticalized topic – ...

Restructuring in Japanese revisited: A phrasal movement analysis of purpose expressions

Phrasal or Lexical Constructions?

Since the 1990s, more and more linguistic articles have been published in the framework of Construction Grammar. Although Kay and Fillmore (1999, p. 19) make it clear that Constructions are not necessarily phrasal, most of the authors suggest phrasal Constructions. This is especially apparent in Construction Grammar-inspired studies in the HPSG framework. In what follows, I show that the differ...

Student Movement in Contemporary Iran; Independent or Affiliated Movement

The student movement is considered as one of the important issues of Iranian political sociology, but its role and its nature and its relationship with other movements and movements in Iran have been discussed. The present article is trying to answer the role and function of the student movement in Iran. Using a descriptive-analytic approach, political currents have become instrumental in most ...