University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics. 2000. Movement and Languages with Complex Morphology
This paper considers the relationship between syntactic movement and morphology in language. It is argued that some movement processes, rather than displacing the elements involved, have morphological replacement which are equivalent to displacement. From this we conclude that overt Movement is more...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.495.4499 http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~ajohns/MovementandMorphology-Johns.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper considers the relationship between syntactic movement and morphology in language. It is argued that some movement processes, rather than displacing the elements involved, have morphological replacement which are equivalent to displacement. From this we conclude that overt Movement is more abstract than has been thought. Similar examples involving mirativity are examined in Labrador Inuttut and Albanian, where in one language, replacement is used, while in the other, displacement is found. |
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