Whither head movement?

Generalized head movement

“…These and other cases of clear long head movement (not discussed here) provide evidence that there is a type of head movement that is not constrained by the HMC. The (apparent) nonlocality of V2 movement in MSc can in turn be seen as evidence that it is another example of this type of long head movement, as proposed in Harizanov & Gribanova 2018. We submit that this is not the right conclusion. Unlike participle fronting in Slavic, V2 movement in MSc does not skip intervening verbs.…”

“…As defined in section 2, GenHM is a transformation that relates two head positions and results in complex head copies with the same internal structure in the two positions, with rules of copy pronunciation determining whether the surface result is raising or lowering. A unified treatment has precedents in the theory of Minimalist Grammars (Stabler 2001), and in Harizanov & Gribanova 2018, and is one of the defining features of Mirror Theory (Brody 2000, Adger et al 2009, Svenonius 2016. However, the formalization proposed here differs substantially from those works, and, for reasons of space, we cannot undertake a detailed comparison here, which we leave for future work.…”

“…In Holmberg &Platzack 1995:49-50 andVikner 1995:28-31, 133, cyclicity is sacrificed for the sake of locality, as they propose that V raises to T only if there is further movement to C: V does not move to T overtly in non-V2 contexts, 11 and in V2 sentences, V moves to C making an intermediate step in T enforced by locality (HMC). This is a non-cyclic account, in the sense that Vto-T movement is contingent on further movement from T to C, and thus does not solely depend on properties of V and T. On the other hand, Harizanov & Gribanova 2018 preserve cyclicity, but propose that V moves to C directly, not constrained by the HMC. 12 In contrast to these analyses, GenHM allows for a derivation of this paradigm that is strictly cyclic and local, as it instantiates the abstract pattern in (21) In this case, the highest strong position is in C, which is where the complex head is spelled out.…”

“…For instance, Adger et al (2009)'s Mirror-Theoretic analysis of Kiowa accounts for the fact that complex verbal heads that are pronounced low have a Mirror-Principle obeying internal structure. A yet different implementation of cyclic lowering can be found in Harizanov & Gribanova (2018). In their theory, lowering of Y to X removes Y from its original position, making it possible for a higher head to lower to X directly.…”

“…We concentrate here on the phenomenon of participle fronting found in a number of South and West Slavic languages (i.a. Lema & Rivero 1990, Embick & Izvorski 1997, Harizanov & Gribanova 2018; all examples below are from Bulgarian). In this construction, a participle generated below an auxiliary (26a) is displaced to the left of the intervening auxiliary (26b).…”