On the Ungrammaticality of Remnant Movement in the Derivation of Greenberg's Universal 20

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3187293
AutoresSam Steddy (Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 32-D808, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139.), Vieri Samek-Lodovici (0000-0002-9827-1014, Department of Italian, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.)
Año2011
Volumen42
Número3
Páginas445-469
Fecha de publicación2011-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
EditorialThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/ling_a_00053
OpenAlexW2069542384
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas10

We propose an analysis that derives Cinque's (2005) typology of linear orders involving a demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun through four Optimality Theory constraints requiring leftward alignment of these items. We show that remnant movement is ungrammatical whenever it produces universally suboptimal alignments, compared with remnant-movement-free structures. Any movement is permitted, but only the best alignment configurations surface as grammatical. We also show that Cinque's original analysis must encode the structural derivations of all attested orders as parametric values of the associated languages. Our analysis need not make similar structural stipulations, as the different attested structures emerge from constraint reranking

Adjective · Constraint (computer-aided design · Demonstrative · Geometry · Linguistics · Movement (music · Natural language processing · Noun · Numeral system · Optimality theory · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation