Overview
Wh-movement—the phenomenon by which interrogative words appear at the beginning of interrogative sentences—is one of the central displacement operations of human language. Noam Chomsky's 1977 paper ""On Wh-Movement,"" a landmark in the study of wh-movement (and movement in general), showed that this computational operation is the basis of a variety of syntactic constructions that had previously been described in terms of construction-specific rules. Taking Chomsky's paper as a starting point, the contributors to this collection reconsider a number of the issues raised in ""On Wh-Movement"" from the perspective of contemporary Minimalist syntactic theory (which explores the thesis that human language is a system optimally designed to meet certain interface conditions imposed by other cognitive systems with which the language faculty interacts). They discuss such wh-movement issues as wh-phrases and pied-piping, the formation of A-bar chains and the copy theory of movement, cyclicity and locality of wh-movement, and the typology of wh-constructions. By reconsidering core characteristics of the wh-movement operation first systematically discussed by Chomsky from the Minimalist perspective, this volume contributes to the further development of the theory of wh-movement and to the general theory of movement. Contributors Brian Agbayani, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Sandra Chung, Norbert Corver, Caterina Donati, Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Toru Ishii, Heejeong Ko, Howard Lasnik, Philip LeSourd, Chris H. Reintges, Luigi Rizzi, Balázs Surányi, Akira Watanabe, Henrietta Yang
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Author: Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng (Leiden University) ,
Norbert Corver (University of Utrecht) ,
Noam Chomsky (Laureate Professor, Roam Agency)
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Imprint: MIT Press
Volume: 42
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9780262532792
ISBN 10: 0262532794
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 19 May 2006
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A topic of everlasting importance and interest, kept at the forefront of the field by this fine collection. Some of the articles, by a good mix of eminent and rising scholars, have already attracted widespread attention. Not to be missed. --C.-T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University
Author Information
Norbert Corver is Professor of Dutch Linguistics at Utrecht University. Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) at MIT and the author of many influential books on linguistics, including Aspects of the Theory of Syntax and The Minimalist Program, both published by the MIT Press.
