The Italian Left Periphery: A View from Locality

Abels, Klaus

doi:10.1162/ling_a_00084

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“…I therefore conclude that the subject-object asymmetry in English matrix wh-questions concerns the distribution of T-to-C movement and not wh-movement. Our analysis, however, suggests that relativisation and topicalisation behave more alike than wh-questions (see also Kuno 1976;Abels 2012b;Douglas 2016) in being sensitive to anti-locality.…”

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Unifying the that-trace and anti-that-trace effects

Douglas

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This article proposes a unified analysis of the that-trace and anti-that-trace effects in English. Unification of these two seemingly diametrically opposed effects remains an outstanding problem. It is argued that complement and relative clauses in English exhibit systematic variation in terms of how articulated their C-domains are. This, combined with Spec-to-Spec Anti-Locality, leads to a novel analysis of the anti-that-trace and that-trace effects. The analysis has interesting theoretical implications for phase theory and the mechanics of successive cyclicity, particularly concerning the position of the phase escape hatch, which is claimed to be the specifier of the complement of the phase head, and not the specifier of the phase head as in standard phase theory.

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Unifying the that-trace and anti-that-trace effects

Douglas

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…In line with Abels (2012), it was argued that a mere stipulation of licit and illicit orderings of projections within the CP is not sufficient, and that it is desirable to use independently motivated syntactic principles to account for this ordering. Abels' attempt to use the principle of locality to accomplish this was explored, and subsequently an explanation relying on anti-locality was proposed for one particular instance of illicit ordering within the Afrikaans CP.…”

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Movement in the Afrikaans left periphery: a view from anti-locality

Berghoff

2018

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It has been convincingly argued that the so-called "left periphery" of the sentence makes available multiple positions which host topicalised and focalised phrases, among other elements. Projections in the C-domain have been shown to have a fixed ordering, the violation of which results in ungrammaticality. Rizzi (1997) provides a template that specifies this ordering. Botha and Oosthuizen (2009) examine this template's ability to account for ordering phenomena in the Afrikaans left periphery and make certain necessary adjustments to Rizzi's template to account for their data. This short paper takes Botha and Oosthuizen's observations regarding the (im)possibility of a certain ordering in the Afrikaans CP as a case in point. Broadly put, the paper's premise is that although the template provided for the Afrikaans CP may be descriptively adequate, in that it can accommodate and predict possible orderings, it falls short in that it does not account for why such a template should exist. That is, the template itself does not explain why certain orderings are permissible and others are not. It is the paper's modest aim to test the ability of one theoretical perspective, namely Grohmann's (2003) theory of anti-locality, to account for the illegality of a particular ordering in the Afrikaans CP. Antilocality's ban on 'too local' movement is shown to predict the illicitness of this ordering. Due to the paper's limited scope, the analysis is not extended to other constructions. Its aim is to prompt further efforts to account for the observed ordering in the CP domain, and it offers the theory of anti-locality as a possible starting point for these efforts.

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“…In independent work, Abels (2012) has confirmed in detail the correlation of the order of elements in the Italian left periphery and the kinds of relative islandhood that the Level Embedding theory would predict. It must be said, Abels interprets the findings differently from how I would—his conclusion is, if we only understood islands, we would now understand the left periphery, and he has no such theory of islands.…”

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Generative Semantics, Generative Morphosyntax

Williams¹

2012

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Abstract. “GSGM” builds no syntactic structures; rather, semantics and morphosyntax are both generative and run in parallel, and so have no need of mediating syntactic structure. In this environment, positing different modes of embedding for NPs and clauses, as in Williams 2003, affords new minimal accounts of movement, scope, agreement, and the bounds on them. Syntax/morphosyntax is instantiated as a single parameterized function (“Combine”). Combine derives both mirroring and nonmirroring structure, as any theory must, but in distinctive “size‐relative” patterns determined by its parameters.

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The Italian Left Periphery: A View from Locality

Cited by 68 publications

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Unifying the <i>that</i>-trace and anti-<i>that</i>-trace effects

Unifying the <i>that</i>-trace and anti-<i>that</i>-trace effects

Movement in the Afrikaans left periphery: a view from anti-locality

Generative Semantics, Generative Morphosyntax

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