On Labeling: Principle C and Head Movement

Merge, Conflation, and Head Movement: the First Sister Principle Revisited

Head-movement is something of a conundrum in modern syntactic theory. At the beginning of the 1990s, it fit beautifully into the system of assumptions that were gradually coalescing into the Minimalist Program. The Head Movement Constraint of Travis 1984 was unified with other constraints on movement as an instance of Rizzi’s 1990:11 Relativized Minimality, the first overarching vision of how e...

On Non-Head Non-Movement

The paper discusses diierent approaches to the analysis of nite verb position in German within the framework of HPSG. It argues that among three parameters (a) standard subcatego-rization and adjunction, (b) uniform structural representation and (c) clause initial nite verbs as heads, only two can be maintained simultaneously, unless additional devices are introduced. We abandon (c) and present...

a head parameter survey on mazandarani dialect and its effect(s) on learning english from ca perspective (on the basis of x-bar syntax)1

there has been a gradual shift of focus from the study of rule systems, which have increasingly been regarded as impoverished, … to the study of systems of principles, which appear to occupy a much more central position in determining the character and variety of possible human languages. there is a set of absolute universals, notions and principles existing in ug which do not vary from one ...

Comparing 3 Perspectives on Head Movement

In the attempt to understand the fundamental properties of human language, in virtue of which it can be acquired and used as it is, the most common strategy is to propose a grammar G that provides a reasonable account of some particular structures of expressions in particular languages. For example, there are proposals in this volume about verbal complexes in German, about agreement on nouns in...

NPI licensing and head movement