Triggers

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2004

Triggers

Edited by: Anne Breitbarth and Henk van Riemsdijk

Volume 75 in the series Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197433

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About this book

The concept of 'trigger' is a core concept of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. The idea that certain types of movement are triggered by some property of the target position is at least as old as the notion that the movement of noun phrases to the subject position is triggered by their need to receive nominative case. In more recent versions of syntactic theory, triggering mechanisms are thought to regulate all of movement. Furthermore, a quite narrow range of triggering mechanisms is permitted. As is to be expected, such a restrictive approach meets a variety of difficulties. Specifically, the question is whether all triggering elements required to cover displacement of all kinds in natural language can be independently motivated. Further, how can a trigger theory, which crucially relies on the idea that all movement is obligatory, deal with apparently optional movement processes? Are features an adequate means to express the triggering function in all cases? More radically, are all movement phenomena really the result of the checking of trigger features? And what about apparent triggering factors that are 'external' to syntax such as prosody - can they be captured in a rigid trigger theory? In other words, could certain aspects of triggered movement be due to interface conditions? Such is the range of questions addressed by the fourteen contributions to this book. They cover a considerable range of languages (including Afrikaans, Breton, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Gungbe, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kiswahili, Romanian). These papers present materials, both empirical and theoretical, that will not fail to have considerable impact on the further development of the concept of trigger in syntactic theory.

Author / Editor information

Anne Breitbarth is a PhD Student at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Henk van Riemsdijk is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands.

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The Role of Triggers in Linguistic Theory: Some Introductory Remarks Anne Breitbarth and Henk Riemsdijk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Snowballing Movement and Generalized Pied-piping Enoch O. Aboh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Optionality at the Interface: Triggering Focus in Romanian Gabriela Alboiu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
How N-words Move: Bipartite Negation and ‘Split-NegP’ Arthur Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
The Agreement Parameter Chris Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Some Notes on Emphatic Forms and Displacement in Dutch Norbert Corver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Scrambling, Optionality and Non-Lexical Triggers Roland Hinterhölzl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Phonological Content and Syntactic Visibility Ruriko Kawashima and Hisatsugu Kitahara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
On Triggers of Movement and Effects at the Interfaces Mariana Lambova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Scope Marking Constructions in Dayal-type Indirect Dependency Anikó Lipták Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Hyperbaton and Haplology Eric Mathieu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
On Scrambling as Defocusing in German and West Germanic László Molnárfi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Linear Compression as a Trigger for Movement Andrea Moro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
A Case for Head Movement at PF: SAI in Comparatives Fumikazu Niinuma and Myung-Kwan Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
The EPP in Breton: An Unvalued Categorial Feature Milan Rezac Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	493

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers, Libraries and advanced students of Linguistics and Languages.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 496
Keywords: Syntax; Minimalistisches Programm

eBook

Published: August 22, 2008
ISBN: 9783110197433

Hardcover

Published: October 25, 2004
ISBN: 9783110181395