Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement

by Jairo Nunes

Book Overview

This highly original monograph treats movement operations within the Minimalist Program. Jairo Nunes argues that traces are not grammatical primitives and that their properties follow from deeper features of the system, and, in particular, that the phonetic realization of traces is determined by linearization computations coupled with economy conditions regarding deletion. He proposes a version of the copy theory of movement according to which movement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262640554
• ISBN13: 9780262640558
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher