T-to-C movement

Syntactic Licensing and Dialectal Variation

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ID7743004
AuthorsGeorgios Ioannou (0000-0002-1986-5472, University of Chile, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume29
Issue2
Pages203-236
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-4450 • E-ISSN: 1678-460X
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0102-44502013000200002
OpenAlexW1987166139
SCIELO_PIDS0102-44502013000200002
LanguageEN
References cited12

This paper intends to extend and elaborate the line of research initiated by Pesetsky and Torrego (2001, 2004) on the role of Tense as a licensing condition over phrasal extraction. In the context of the operation of CP-raising, it re-interprets some instances of T-to-C movement as having not a licensing but a blocking effect over CP-extraction. T-to-C Movement then is analysed as part of an integral operational cycle of gradual saturation comprizing head movement as well as head-agreement. This extended paradigm is analyzed as various degrees of operational completeness, correponding to degrees of "specificity". Within this operational hierarchy of featural specificity resides the mechanism that "opens" or "closes" the syntactic path for phrasal movement to apply. Drawing on data from Belfast English, it is observed that dialectal variation takes place on particular points that lie lower in this hierarchy, in other words at a derivational point of operational "under-specification

Blocking (statistics) · Completeness (order theory) · Context (archaeology) · Hierarchy · Linguistics · Movement (music) · Natural language processing · Political science · Prefix · Variation (astronomy) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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