I will show that noun incorporation of korean occurs at dstructure and obeys the head movement constraint hmc by travis 1984 and chomsky 1986 syntactically. There is also an adjunction component, resulting in the adjunction of the displaced head to another head. Tense, case, and the nature of syntactic categories. This movement violates the head movement constraint in the sense of travis 1984 and chomsky 1986, as shown in 10.
The story was mostly written at barnhill, a farmhouse on the scottish island of jura, at times while orwell suffered from severe tuberculosis. The verb raises up to some functional head f, first raising to v to satisfy the head movement constraint travis 1984. Section 2 provides some basic background on the the moro. Head movement constraint travis 1984, baker1988 hm feeds affixation. No element dominated by a cp may be moved out of that cp if that cp is a subject. In 9 the auxiliary would need to move around the n of man and the cp and comp of the relative clause, but this movement would be blocked by the head movement constraint hmc.
When applied iteratively, the two components result in the formation of complex heads. In the oblique dative od form, the verb takes a noun phrase np and a dative prepositional phrase pp, the second of which is not a core argument. Verb movement, universal grammar, and the structure of ip. This analysis entails that an aux can move past an intervening neg head to get to t, and consequently that the head movement constraint of travis 1984 cannot be correct. This constraint excludes the hypothesized movement of the participle to c, which skips the head position of the auxiliary, in. Num moves up to d without crossing any intervening head when proper nouns are suffixed with men. These negation patters are thus underivable under standard assumptions, if negwere indeed below t.
A novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by english novelist george orwell. Although adjunction of the preposition to foc seemingly induces constraint violations e. In addition, if the auxiliary moves as in 9, it leaves a gap that will violate the empty category principle ecp. Chomsky1995, hale and keyser2002, harley 2002, 2003. The category of this landing site is assumed to be d, the position normally occupied by a determiner. Conversely, ungureanu 2003, 2006, 2009 argues that dpinternal movement of nouns and adjectives that surface prenominally, in the left periphery of the dp, is head movement ruled by the head movement constraint proposed in travis 1984.
Montgomerys book, along with its detailed website materials, shines a light that guides us as leaders and managers toward a more sustainable and productive future. Because the head movement constraint hmc, of travis 1984 requires ziji to move to the lower i0 before it moves to the higher i0, ziji and its trace t must agree with the specs of both the lower and the higher ip, and hence the two specs subjects themselves must also agree in. Chomsky does not discuss the head movement constraint in relation to 2. Crosslinguistic variation in nominal functional sequences. Participleauxiliaryword orders in slavic 1 introduction. Since cselection is part of the same operation that allows head movement, head movement must precede phrasalmovement. Her 1984 proposal of the head movement constraint, which seeks to account for limitations on the movement of syntactic heads in question formation, has become. In absence of aspectual markers, dynamic verbs give rise to. This movement was dubbed long head movement lhm on the grounds that the participle was argued to move directly to c0, bypassing the intervening head occupied by the auxiliary,andthusviolatingtheheadmovementconstrainttravis1984, chomsky 1986. Derives mirror principle by incorporating head movement constraint and no excorporation. Animportantdevelopmentinheadmovementcameinlisatraviss1984disserta tion. Head movement constraint travis 1984 o head movement may not skip intermediate heads for the 2 nd modal in t to raise to c in questions, the 1 st modal in m must have been. Specific thanks go to yin li, barbara meisterernst, and alain peyraube for their help, as well as their criticisms.
Verb movement, universal grammar, and the structure of ip 367 if we take these proposals seriously, as we should, we can account for the minimal pairs in 2 5 as the surface reflex of one abstract syntactic difference, the respective scope of verb movement in the two languages. However, that a nonbranching adjunct to vp, for example, cannot be attracted to t by head movement must. Assuming this to be the case, the structures that underlie the two verbs in 24 would be represented by 25a and 25b, respectively. In this paper i discuss noun incorporation phenomena in korean. In principle, these two phenomena are distinct, but in practice they can be difficult to distinguish.
Dp1 who did the reporters expect cp that the principal would. Parameters and effects of word order variation mitwpl. The locality restriction on head movement traviss 1984 head movement constraint is. Relativized minimality thus derives effects of the head movement constraint travis. This thesis investigates different issues raised by the problems of language specific word orders.
The layered internal structure of spatial pps seiki ayano. Travis 1984 first modelled this effect with the head movement constraint, later argued by rizzi 1990 to be a subcase of a generalized locality constraint on all movement operations, relativized minimality. If the constituent passes through the specdp before moving to an aposition outside the. Economy, innovation, and prescriptivism 61 2 it may be that just moving features is even more economical, as chomsky 1995, pp. In effect, the hmc prohibits skipping a governing head position, as in ii. From the point of view of a phrasal movement analysis shown in 9, we have either a locality violation or improper movement. A multiple process solution to the logical problem of. This is the kind of analysis that i will ultimately adopt for the derivation of middle egyptian vso order. Object agreement is the realization of phi features on v, whereas clitic doubling is often analyzed as the movement of a d head in order to attach to a verb.
Head movement analysis sketched in 8, the d head blocks predicate fronting following the head movement constraint travis 1984. Qfeature movement in single and multiple wh questions in. In this paper, i take up the issue for the amharic object marker, a morpheme that covaries with the phi features of an. Head raising and lowering are the same operation section 2. In writing 1984, orwells main goal was to warn of the serious danger totalitarianism poses to society. Yenhui audrey lis 8 research works with 318 citations and 611 reads, including.
In chapter 3, traviss main goal is understanding various differences between. Whmovement, islands, incorporation and covert movement 2. My first goal is to make the reader familiar with a coherent fragment of the overall system and the data that motivate it. Head movement in linguistic theory mit press journals. There is a movement component, whereby a head is displaced upward, subject to the head movement constraint travis 1984. Travis s 1984 head movement constraint is not special to head movement but also governs cselection. Head movement would have been impossible here, had the expletive been a head by travis 1984 head movement constraint.
One potential problem for this analysis is that movement of a qfeature to c is not blocked by certain intervening heads, as this is a violation of the head movement constraint travis 1984, which states that a head cannot be separated from its trace by an intervening head lasnik 2003. Taronom sonacc selfboastdopst taro boasted about his son. Both the higher head x 0 and the lower one y may be. In studies in chinese linguistics university of washington. Now the difference between slavic and romance languages falls out immediately.
He goes to great lengths to demonstrate the terrifying degree of power and control a totalitarian regime can acquire and maintain. Deriving locality constraints in the minimalist program universitat. In section 2 we present delsings head movement analysis and discuss a number of theoretical and empirical problems with it. It is erroneously believed that the hmc can be made to follow from relativized minimality rizzi 1990. This paper is a comparative study of the morphosyntax of the constituents referred as noun phrases nps in traditional grammar, and it focuses on empiri cal data from english and mandarin chinese. A probegoal approach to parametric variation in english. Moreover, yeh can be separated from the verbal head by an adverbial, as illustrated in 56. Head movement in linguistic theory 71 2 aunifiedtheoryofmovement in this section, i defend the claim that head movement and phrasal movement are triggered by.
Second, given this internal structure of dutch spatial pps and the head movement constraint travis 1984, a contrast between the availability and unavailability of ptov incorporation can be readily accounted for. On the syntactic category of pronouns and agreement. This book has been cited by the following publications. Asp 1 asp0 1 perf asp 2p asp 2 asp 0 2 expdur neg 2p neg 2 neg0 2 bu vp b. The aim of chapter 2 is to replace phrase structure rules which stipulate the order of constituents. Her 1984 proposal of the head movement constraint, which seeks to account for limitations on the movement of syntactic heads in question formation, has become a cornerstone. The hmc looks a lot like a syntactic constraint especially given its outward. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on youtube. Locality constraints the sentential subject constraint 1 sentential subject constraint ross 1967. Head movement constraint travis 1984 o head movement may not skip intermediate heads for the 2nd modal in t to raise to c in questions, the 1st modal in m must have been skipped over following probegoal feature checking movement system chomsky 2000 o c is probing for a goal with tense features pesetsky and torrego 2001. In section 2, i will first present the empirical differences between. If we postulate that ojibwe is a head initial language, the suffixstatus of a final could be attributed to head movement travis, 1984. First, if this is an instance of head movement, it violates the head movement constraint. Lisa demena travis is a researcher and educator in the field of linguistics, specializing in syntax and in the study of austronesian languages such as malagasy and tagalog.
I assume a kind of typed hmc, where a head cannot move past a head of the type it needs to move to. Hm seems to have no semantic or syntactic effects, but phrasal movement does. Head movement constraint is a constraint originally formulated in travis 1984. When the target position is independently filled, as in 1 and 2, head movement is blocked. A syntactic reanalysis of double modals in southern. Both movements would violate the head movement constraint hmc. In linguistics, dative shift refers to a pattern in which the subcategorization of a verb can take on two alternating forms, the oblique dative form or the double object construction form.
If taken to be xp movement, some constraint on the movement would still be required. In such regimes, notions of personal rights and freedoms and individual thought are pulverized under the all. Assuming the head movement constraint of travis 1984, this analysis presupposes that the landing site of the head noun is also a head position. Slavic languages, have treated the word order in 1b as involving head movement of the participle to c0. Deriving locality constraints in the minimalist program. The human constraint explores the single greatest challenge any leader faces in an organization. She is currently a professor of linguistics at mcgill university. Ced effects on head movement research of mark baker 1984, 1987. Np which book about t1 2 dont you know cp who1 to read t2.
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