Syntactic movement is the means by which some theories of syntax address discontinuities. Movement was first postulated by structuralist linguists who...
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Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226674469. Webelhuth, Gert (1992). Principles and Parameters of Syntactic Saturation. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195361384....
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In linguistics, wh-movement (also known as wh-fronting, wh-extraction, or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative...
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Distributed morphology (section Head movement)
hierarchical position in the syntactic structure, as well as by certain post-syntactic operations. Head movement is the main syntactic operation determining...
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was not their content but rather he was inspired by their levels of syntactic movement, framing, form and grammar. The Invincible Six (1970), an American...
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C-command (category Syntactic relationships)
plays a central role in defining and constraining operations such as syntactic movement, binding, and scope. Tanya Reinhart introduced c-command in 1976 as...
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Indian subcontinent Movement (sign language), the distinctive hand actions that form words in sign languages Syntactic movement, the means by which some...
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Subject–auxiliary inversion (category Syntactic entities)
consistent V2 word order. Syntactic theories based on phrase structure typically analyze subject–aux inversion using syntactic movement. In such theories, a...
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Locality (linguistics) (category Syntactic relationships)
transformational grammar use syntactic locality constraints to explain restrictions on argument selection, syntactic binding, and syntactic movement. Locality is observed...
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X-bar theory (redirect from Affix movement)
linguistics, X-bar theory is a model of phrase structure and a theory of syntactic category formation that proposes a universal schema for how phrases are...
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Minimalist program (category Syntactic theories)
[vP <Mary> ate the cake ]. Movement: CP and vP can be the focus of pseudo-cleft movement, showing that CP and vP form syntactic units: this is shown in (3)...
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sort have been used to argue that scope relations are determined by syntactic movement operations. Aside from their theoretical significance, scope islands...
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S2CID 27849117. Friedmann, Naama; Gvion, Aviah; Novogrodsky, Rama (2006). "Syntactic Movement in Agrammatism and S-SLI: Two Different Impairments". In Adriana Belletti;...
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Parasitic gap (category Syntactic transformation)
appearance of parasitic gaps in (3) appears to be reliant on syntactic movement (e.g. wh-movement or topicalization), and presents two challenges: The fact...
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Inalienable possession (section Syntactic trees)
Cross-linguistically, inalienability correlates with many morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties. In general, the alienable–inalienable distinction...
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an inserted subject (often a pronoun such as it or there), which is syntactically required, yet semantically meaningless, making no reference to anything...
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V2 word order (section Syntactic verb second)
tense-first. The LEFT movement is free from syntactic rules which is evidence for a post-syntactic phenomenon. With the LEFT movement, V2 word order can...
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Bulgarian. Rather, what makes clitic doubling in Degema possible are syntactic (movement and anaphoricity) and discourse (emphasis and/or familiarity) factors...
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processing selectivity in Broca's area: evident for structure but not syntactic movement". Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 30 (10): 1326–1338. doi:10...
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occurs post-syntactically, at the morphological level. It is movement that occurs overtly at the phonetic form, after the syntactic movement has occurred...
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"Opx" and "x" which blocks the dependency in that sentence. wh-movement syntactic movement Complementizer Topic marker Chomsky, Noam. (1981) Lectures on...
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Antisymmetry (category Syntactic relationships)
(1979). The Syntactic Domain of Anaphora. Doctoral dissertation (PDF). M.I.T. Press. Since any rightward movement must also be downward movement if there...
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Verb-initial word order (section Verb movement)
a syntactic asymmetry in Tongan. V1 word order can also be analyzed as a derivation from the more common SVO order through verbal phrase movement. This...
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Mediterranean" (30). With the "Mediterranean" as subject of the canto, the "syntactical movement" is continued and there is no break in the fluency of the poem; it...
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Constituent (linguistics) (redirect from Syntactic constituents)
In syntactic analysis, a constituent is a word or a group of words that function as a single unit within a hierarchical structure. The constituent structure...
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Move α (redirect from Alpha movement)
thus eliminating Move as an autonomous operation. Movement paradox Syntactic movement Wh-movement Jack C. Richards and Richard Schmidt / Longman Dictionary...
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time, manner, and aspect). This proclisis (ascenso de clítico) was a syntactic movement away from the idea that an object must follow the verb. For example...
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Pied-piping (category Syntactic relationships)
Hamelin, where a piper lures rats and children away from their town. In syntactic pied-piping, a focused expression (such as an interrogative word) pulls...
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Expletives Extraposition Gapping Heavy NP shift Inverse copula sentences Movement paradoxes Negative inversion Non-configurational language Parasitic gaps...
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