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Linguistic Inquiry (2024) 55 (2): 327–373.
Published: 04 April 2024
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A number of languages have been argued to establish basic word order by means of VP-fronting (e.g., Kayne 1994 , Massam 2001 ). However, many such analyses overgenerate: some material thought to be VP-internal never appears fronted and must apparently always be stranded ( Chung 2005 , Massam 2010 ). Here, I provide novel evidence for VP-fronting in an SVO language, the understudied Polynesian outlier Imere (Vanuatu), motivated by the placement of adverbial particles. But this analysis too faces the stranding problem: VP-fronting cannot drag along any DPs, PPs, or CPs. To solve this issue, I propose that VP-fronting is accompanied by distributed deletion ( Fanselow and Ćavar 2001 ), driven by a constraint that favors realizing only the verb. I extend this analysis to eight other VP-fronting languages, from five language families. In all these languages, what remains in the fronted VP is a structurally reduced dependent, like an adverbial particle or a determinerless object. Building on Clemens 2014 , 2019 , I adopt a constraint that requires dependents of a head that spell out in the same phase to remain adjacent, thus surviving distributed deletion.
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Linguistic Inquiry (2015) 46 (1): 113–155.
Published: 01 January 2015
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This article presents novel data from the Nilotic language Dinka, in which the syntax of successive-cyclic movement is remarkably transparent. We show that Dinka provides strong support for the view that long-distance extraction proceeds through the edge of every verb phrase and every clause on the path of movement ( Chomsky 1986 , 2000 , 2001 , 2008 ). In addition, long-distance dependencies in Dinka offer evidence that extraction from a CP requires agreement between v and the CP that is extracted from ( Rackowski and Richards 2005 , Den Dikken 2009b , 2012a , b ). The claim that both of these components constrain long-distance movement is important, as much contemporary work on extraction incorporates only one of them. To accommodate this conclusion, we propose a modification of Rackowski and Richards 2005 , in which both intermediate movement and Agree relations between phase heads are necessary steps in establishing a long-distance dependency.
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Linguistic Inquiry (2013) 44 (1): 168–178.
Published: 01 January 2013