A derivational view on movement constraints

This paper explores conditions on movement in a strongly derivational organization of grammar. The setting is Ulf Brozsiewski’s model of syntactic derivations [4]. It offers a local encoding of movement dependencies that combines properties of transformational and feature-based approaches. It is based on simple assumptions about syntactic expressions and the operations defined on them, and is thus suitable to investigate how much is needed to derive, or at least express, fundamental characteristics of movement. Moreover it reduces the amount of representations needed for syntactic operations to a minimum and thus constitutes an exploration of how derivational syntax can be.