Intervention in tough-constructions revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Keine (0000-0002-7134-4017, University of Southern California, corresponding author), Ethan Poole, E G C Poole (0000-0001-5590-4136, University of Massachusetts Amherst) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 295-329 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Linguistic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/tlr-2017-0003 |
| OpenAlex | W2625385327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 18 |
In this paper, we subject to closer scrutiny one particularly influential recent argument in favour of the long-movement analysis of tough -constructions. Hartman (2011, 2012a, 2012b) discovered that experiencer PPs lead to ungrammaticality in tough -constructions, but not in expletive constructions. He attributes this ungrammaticality to defective intervention of A-movement, a movement step crucially postulated only in the long-movement analysis. He takes this as evidence that tough -constructions are derived via long movement. We make the novel observation that a PP intervention effect analogous to that in tough -constructions also arises in constructions that do not involve A-movement, namely pretty-predicate constructions and gapped degree phrases. Consequently, the intervention effect does not provide an argument for an A-movement step in tough -constructions or for the long-movement analysis, but rather for the base-generation analysis. We develop a uniform account of the intervention effects as a semantic-type mismatch. In particular, we propose that what unifies tough -constructions, pretty-predicate constructions, and gapped degree phrases is that they all have an embedded clause that is a null-operator structure. Introducing an experiencer PP into these constructions creates an irresolvable semantic-type mismatch. As such, we argue for a reassessment of what appears to be a syntactic locality constraint as an incompatibility in the semantic composition
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
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| Citations per year | 2,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |