Backward Raising
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5086493 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Potsdam (0000-0002-7455-2479), Maria Polinsky (0000-0003-1460-5089) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-108 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Syntax (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-0005 • E-ISSN: 1467-9612 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9612.2011.00158.x |
| OpenAlex | W2312512766 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 46 |
This paper documents and analyzes an instance of covert A-movement, specifically covert subject-to-subject raising, in the Northwest Caucasian language Adyghe. We argue that Adyghe has a subject-to-subject raising construction in which the subject of an unaccusative verb's complement clause undergoes A-movement into the matrix clause, but it does so covertly. We refer to this phenomenon asbackward raising. True backward raising is distinguished from apparent cases that have similar agreement patterns but do not show any of the other evidence for movement found in the Adyghe construction. We illustrate the contrast between true and apparent backward raising by comparing Adyghe to Greek. The existence of backward raising helps to adjudicate between various theories of covert movement. It supports a theory in which covert movement involves actual phrasal movement. Covert movement cannot be reduced to a long-distance feature-matching relation such as Agree (Chomsky 2000). Linguistic theory thus needs to incorporate both mechanisms
Covert · Geometry · Linguistics · Movement (music · Raising (metalworking · Subject (documents · Verb · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 0,93 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |