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About the Author:
Cedric Boeckx is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and a member of the Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative at Harvard University
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“In the space of just 150 pages Boeckx provides an accessible and assured introduction to minimalism; a terrific critical review of the evidence for cyclic movement; a sympathetic yet powerful critique of phase theory; and a new approach to the cycle based on an intuitively natural version of Least Effort. This really is a tour de force and can be read profitably by expert and neophyte alike.”
Norbert Hornstein, University of Maryland
“The book investigates the venerable topic of successive cyclic movement in order to shed light on the nature of the minimalist program. It is a truly impressive achievement which draws important conclusions regarding the most fundamental issues of the minimalist program and puts back the phenomenon of successive cyclic movement in the center of syntactic theorizing. It should have a strong impact on the field.”
Željko Bošković, University of Connecticut
“This is a concise study of how locality and anti-locality effects can be handled within minimalism: it is up-to-date, thought-provoking and full of insightful and original ideas – ideal for use as a ‘specialist topic’ on an advanced syntax course.”
Andrew Radford, University of Essex
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Cedric Boeckx is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and a member of the Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative at Harvard University. He is the author of Islands and Chains (2003), Linguistic Minimalism (2006), and numerous articles in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introductory Remarks 1
The Framework 1
Outline of the Book: Goals and Structure 4
The Marks of Successive Cyclicity (The What-Question) 9
Subjacency and the Emergence of Successive Cyclicity 9
The Evidence 11
Syntax 11
Morphology 14
Phonology 22
Semantics 23
Morpho-syntactic evidence from, overtly stranded pieces 26
A-movement 29
Conclusion 34
The Distribution of Intermediate Landing Sites (The Where-Question) 39
Punctuated vs. Uniform Paths 40
The Difficulties Faced by Punctuated Path Hypotheses 43
Phases: an overview 44
Conceptual arguments for phases 46
Arguments against phases 48
Old problems for phases 50
No empirical argument for phases 54
Conclusion 61
The Timing of Intermediate Steps of Movement (The When-Question) 64
Early vs. Late Successive Cyclicity 64
Takahashi (1994) 66
The Evidence for Early Successive Cyclic Movement 70
Background information on applicatives 71
The need for early successive cyclic movement 76
Potential Arguments for Late Successive Cyclic Movement 80
Sub-extraction out of a moved element 80
Intervening traces 82
Object agreement 83
Conclusion 86
The Motivation for Intermediate Movement Steps (The Why-Question) 90
Last Resort 90
Problematic Cases 91
Concord 91
Successive cyclicity 92
Anti-locality 101
Anti-locality and Successive Cyclicity 106
Anti-locality and Last Resort 110
The Why-Question 113
Conclusion 117
Alternative Views on Successive Cyclicity 119
Tag-based Accounts 119
An Agreement-based Account 125
Prolific Domains 129
Greed-based Approaches 129
Conclusion 132
Successive Cyclicity and Other Aspects of Locality 133
The Standard View on Islands 134
Puzzles for the Standard View 136
Movement, freezing, and escape hatch 136
Island by default? 137
Island-obviation 137
Ross's View 145
Agreement and Islandhood 145
Conclusion 148
Concluding Remarks 150
References 152
Index 167