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Islands and chains : resumption as stranding /
The present work provides a detailed analysis of chain formation and locality conditions imposed on it within the Minimalist Program. It does so by analyzing resumptive strategies in great detail. This study claims that resumptive pronouns and their antecedents are first merged as constituents, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 63. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The present work provides a detailed analysis of chain formation and locality conditions imposed on it within the Minimalist Program. It does so by analyzing resumptive strategies in great detail. This study claims that resumptive pronouns and their antecedents are first merged as constituents, and are separated via movement (thus forming instances of discontinuous constituents). Resumptive chains are thus akin to the well-known stranding analysis of quantifier float. A taxonomy of islands is developed that crucially ties barriers for movement to agreement possibilities. The stranding of a res. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 221 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027295613 9027295611 9789027227867 9027227861 9781588114099 1588114090 |
| ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |