Unbounded successive-cyclic rightward DP-movement

• Jason Overfelt ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Massachusetts
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Nº 162, 2015, págs. 1-31
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Larson (1989) noted that rightward movement of a DP past a clausal adjunct can necessitate a parasitic gap inside that clausal adjunct. This paper argues that rightward DP-movement beyond certain adjunct clauses is movement beyond typical Heavy-NP Shift that is licensed by the need to bind the parasitic gap. I show that this correctly predicts a number of observations concerning the exceptional nature of the rightward movement involved. In particular, parasitic gaps are able to license rightward movement that is potentially unbounded and successive-cyclic.