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One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. This book investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling, in which displacement occurs in two steps thus allowing for otherwise inaccessible movement operations.
List of contents
- 1. Introduction by Adriana Belletti and Chris Collins
- 2. Ways of smuggling in Syntactic Derivations by Adriana Belletti
- 3. Punctual Time Adverbials in Italian by Valentina Bianchi
- 4. On Smuggling, the Freezing Ban, Labels, and Tough-constructions by Zeljko Boskovic
- 5. A Smuggling Approach to the Dative Alternation by Chris Collins
- 6. On Measure Phrase Alternation and Smuggling by Norbert Corver
- 7. Canonical and Reverse Predication in the Syntax of the Active/Passive Diathesis Alternation by Marcel den Dikken
- 8. On the Syntax of the can't seem Construction in English by Hilda Koopman
- 9. On Children's Late Acquisition of Raising seem and Control promise by Victoria Mateu and Nina Hyams
- 10. Remnant Movement and Smuggling in Some Romance Interrogative Clauses by Cecilia Poletto and Jean-Yves Pollock
- 11. Smuggling, Ergativity, and the Final-Over-Final Condition by Ian Roberts
About the author
Adriana Belletti is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Siena. Her main research has focused on generative comparative morpho-syntax with special emphasis on Italian/Romance and on different modes of language acquisition within a grammar-based approach. Her publications include the co-authored volume The Acquisition of Italian (2015) and with OUP the edited volume Structures and Beyond (2004).
Chris Collins is Professor of Linguistics at New York University. He is a syntactician with an interest in African languages, including Ewe and the Khosian languages. His research focuses on anaphora, argument structure, negation, and ellipsis. He has written and edited multiple books, including most recently The Linker in the Khoisan Languages (OUP 2019).
Summary
One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. This book investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling, in which displacement occurs in two steps thus allowing for otherwise inaccessible movement operations.
Additional text
An idea of growing importance to syntactic theory, smuggling has yielded an explosion of exciting research. Collected here is some of the best.
