Jun Abe

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Minimalist Syntax for Quantifier Raising, Topicalization and Focus Movement: A Search and Float Approach for Internal Merge (2017)Hardcover - 2017, 31 October 2016

Minimalist Syntax for Quantifier Raising, Topicalization and Focus Movement: A Search and Float Approach for Internal Merge (2017)
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Part of Series
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Print Length
240 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
31 Oct 2016
ISBN-10
3319473034
ISBN-13
9783319473031

Description

This volume examines how the displacement property of language is characterized in formal terms under the Minimalist Program and to what extent this proposed characterization of it can explain relevant displacement properties. The birth of the Principles and Parameters Approach makes it possible to simplify transformational rules so radically as to be reduced to the single rule Move. The author proposes that Move, as conceived as a special case of Merge, named internal Merge, under the Minimalist Program requires two prerequisite operations: one is to "dig" into a structure to find a target of Merge, called Search, and the other is to make this target reach the top of the structure, called Float. The author argues that these two different operations are constrained by "minimal computation." Due to the nature of how they apply, these operations are constrained by this economy condition in such a way that Search must be minimal and Float obeys Minimize chain links, which requires that this operation cannot skip possible landing sites. The author demonstrates that this mechanism of minimal Search and Float deals with a variety of phenomena that involve quantifier raising, such as rigidity effects of scope interaction, the availability of cumulative readings of plural relation sentences and pair-list readings of multiple wh-questions. Also demonstrated in this volume is that the same mechanism properly captures the locality effects of topicalization, focus movement, and ellipsis with contrastive focus.

Product Details

Author:
Jun Abe
Book Edition:
2017
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
31 October 2016
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm
ISBN-10:
3319473034
ISBN-13:
9783319473031
Language:
English
Location:
Cham
Pages:
240
Publisher:
Weight:
526.17 gm

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