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Movement and cyclic Agree
Recent work has argued for derivational expansion of the search space of ɸ-probes as a result of the cyclic interaction of Merge and Agree (cyclic...
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Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof
This paper investigates control constructions in the Niger-Congo language Wolof, which offers several insights into the phenomenon of control. First,...
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Locality, focus and covert movement
This paper offers new evidence for covert focus movement in two areas of Chinese syntax, concerning A’-extraction and the distribution of anaphoric...
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Rightward verb movement: A reappraisal
A well-known problem for head-final languages is diagnosing rightward head movement. For Germanic OV-languages such as German and Dutch, it has been...
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On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese
A number of works have assumed the existence of so-called “low focus movement” in Brazilian Portuguese, that is, focus-driven movement to a...
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Reflexes of exponent movement in inflectional morphology
Seemingly non-local phonological operations triggered by inflectional exponents have been observed in a number of languages. Focussing on...
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Eye-movement patterns in skilled Arabic readers: effects of specific features of Arabic versus universal factors
This study aims to shed light on the contribution of universal versus language specific factors on reading. We examined eye movements of Arabic...
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A longitudinal eye-movement study of text-diagram integrative processing during multimedia reading among upper elementary children
This study aimed to investigate whether elementary school students have different reading strategies based on various levels of text-diagram...
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Verb movement and the lack of verb-doubling VP-topicalization in Germanic
In the absence of a stranded auxiliary or modal, VP-topicalization in most Germanic languages gives rise to the presence of a dummy verb meaning...
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Influence of the Head Noun and Integration of the Dependent in Near-Compound Nominals Such as High Executive
This chapter studies nominals such as high executive, in which a head noun denoting a person in their socio-professional capacity is modified by the...
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Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals
Based on a hitherto neglected set of multiple pre-subject modal sentences, this article offers a novel syntactic account of Mandarin modals whereby...
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The duality of syntax: Unstable structures, labelling and linearisation
This work aims to enhance the theory of Dynamic Asymmetry by including symmetric head-head structures, the inevitable first step of any derivation...
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French polar response particles and neg movement
I present new data from European French involving embedded polar response particles (a.k.a. yes/no particles) in response to negative questions and...
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Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic movement
Predicate doubling in Spanish is usually taken to involve multiple copy spell-out. This approach is mainly motivated by the fact that two instances...
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Structure preservation in complex prefields: A note on Müller (2018)
Cases of apparent V3 order in German finite main clauses are commonly attributed to remnant VP movement to SpecC. The remnant VPs posited in this...
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Ordering discontinuous \(\varvec{\varphi }\)-feature agree: verbal -s in North Eastern English
North Eastern English differs from Standard English with respect to agreement: According to the Northern Subject Rule , 3sg agreement marking ( verbal...
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There is something missing in NP and moving in DP
This study investigates a curious Adjective-Prepositional Phrase sequence (the A-PP string) found in coordination contexts. Investigations into the...
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Floating quantifiers, specificity and focus in Lalo Yi
Lalo Yi presents a distribution of numeral-classifier pairs that appears to be the complete inverse of the norm found in other numeral-classifier...
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Whither head movement?
We argue that head movement, as an operation that builds head-adjunction structures in the syntax, has been used to model two empirically distinct...
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The order of operations and A/Ā interactions
Double object constructions provide an ideal context in which to investigate interactions between multiple instances of movement. With two internal...
