Wh-Movement: Moving on

by Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng

Book Overview

Wh-movement--the phenomenon by which interrogative words appear at the beginning of interrogative sentences--is one of the central displacement operations of human language. Noam Chomsky's 1977 paper "On Wh-Movement," a landmark in the study of wh-movement (and movement in general), showed that this computational operation is the basis of a variety of syntactic constructions that had previously been described in terms of construction-specific rules...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262532794
• ISBN13: 9780262532792
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher