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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817795803321

Autore

Roberts Ian G

Titolo

Agreement and head movement : clitics, incorporation, and defective goals / / Ian Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2010

ISBN

0-262-28871-0

0-262-28972-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Linguistic inquiry monographs ; ; 59

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Head-driven phrase structure grammar

Grammar, Comparative and general - Agreement

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-275) and index.

Nota di contenuto

LF-effects of head movement -- Head movement and pied-piping -- Cliticization -- Verb movement and incorporation -- Head movement and the theory of movement -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

Here, Ian Roberts explores the consequences of Chomsky's conjecture that head-movement is not part of the narrow syntax the computational system that relates the lexicon to the interfaces.