| Types of Ā-Dependencies Contributor(s): Cinque, Guglielmo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0262530899 ISBN-13: 9780262530897 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Foreign Language Study | Romance Languages (other) |
| Dewey: 415 |
| LCCN: 90-37783 |
| Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 223 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Types of A'-Dependencies develops the theories of Bonding and Government of the "principles and parameters" approach to syntax pioneered by Noam Chomsky. Using data from Romance languages, Cinque argues for a particular way of delimiting the descriptive generalizations that concern the grammar of constituent extraction, and the principles from which they derive.Cinque starts by distinguishing four major cases of A'-Dependencies on the basis of their different behavior with respect to island conditions. He discusses the distinction between "long" and "successive cyclic" wh-movement, indicating restrictions on the class of elements able to undergo "long" wh-movement and offering a simplification of the locality conditions on the two types of movement. Cinque then introduces a Romance construction, Clitic Left Dislocation, to show the value of separating the two types of wh-movement and offers a theory that explains certain differences between NPs and non-NPs under extraction. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cinque, Guglielmo: - Guglielmo Cinque is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Venice, where he is Director of the PhD Program in Linguistics. He is the author of Types of Ā-Dependencies (MIT Press, 1990) and other books. |