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Move #945;: Conditions on Its Application and Output (Current Studies in Linguistics)
Move 945 Conditions on Its Application and Output - Current Studies in Linguistics Author:Howard Lasnik, Mamoru Saito This major contribution to modern syntactic theory elaborates a principles-and-parameters framework in which the differences and similarities among languages with respect to WH-questions can be captured. Move alpha is part of an overall program, initiated by Noam Chomsky, to create a global theory in which the entire transformational component c... more »an be reduced to a single process, Move a. Lasnik and Saito are concerned particularly with bounding requirements on movement (Subjacency) and proper government requirements on traces (the Empty Category Principle). Current Studies in Linguistics No. 22« less