On Pied-Piping - Wh-Movement and Beyond

Pied-piping, the phenomenon that wh-movement may target categories not marked with the feature [wh], has generally been considered idiosyncratic and pathological. On Pied-Piping argues that this assessment is not correct. The book presents a compilation of crosslinguistic generalizations on pied-piping and a theory that derives them. Pied-piping is incorporated into a derivational theory of successive cyclic wh-movement that includes input-output optimization, the operation Agree, and phase theory. The resulting theory is a step towards closing a long-standing gap in syntactic theorizing.

About the author

Fabian Heck, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Report

"Stepping aside theoretical and methodological issues, Heck has clearly done a tremendous job in gathering together a typologically diverse set of languages and providing a small range of generalizations that account for the apparent variety of PiPing."Joshua Bowles in Linguist List 20.2283

Product details

• Authors: Fabian Heck
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2008
• EAN: 9783110206050
• ISBN: 978-3-11-020605-0
• No. of pages: 401
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 29 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 735 g
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar; Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics