Provocative syntax
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
c2011.
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| Series: | Linguistic inquiry monographs ;
61. |
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Table of Contents:
- Provocation. Introduction
- The inner workings of provocation
- Virtues of provocation
- Clausal provocation
- Chain formation
- Provoking head movement
- Provocative case studies. Quotative inversion
- Negative inversion
- Germanic verb-second clauses
- Force and provocation. Evidence for fin-to-force movement
- On wh-movement
- The distribution of embedded-verb second clauses
- Appendix: selection of clausal complements
- Provoking trace deletion. Introduction
- That-trace effects
- Crosslinguistic variation
- A spooky constraint
- Short wh-movement in embedded questions.