In:The Unity of Movement: Evidence from verb movement in Cantonese
Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 283] 2024
► pp. vii–xii
Published online: 25 April 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.283.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.283.toc
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
xiii
List of tables
xv
Abbreviations
xvii
Abstract
xix
Preface
xxi
Chapter 1.Introduction
1
1.1The theoretical goals and empirical domains of the volume
1
1.2A unity approach to movement
3
1.3The outline of this volume
5
Chapter 2.Approaching head movement
7
2.1Introduction
7
2.2The origin of head movement
7
2.2.1From independent transformation rules to Move-n
7
2.2.2Constraints on head movement
9
2.3The debates surrounding head movement
11
2.3.1Theoretical concerns of the adjunction approach to head movement
11
2.3.1.1The Extension Condition
12
2.3.1.2The Empty Category Principle/Proper Binding Principle
13
2.3.1.3The non-successive cyclic nature
14
2.3.1.4Locality constraints
15
2.3.1.5The Chain Uniformity Condition
15
2.3.2Empirical differences with phrasal movement?
16
2.3.2.1The locality constraints on head movement
16
2.3.2.2The interpretive effects of head movement
17
2.3.2.3The morpho-phonological realization of head movement
18
2.4Non-unity approaches to head and phrasal movement
19
2.4.1Eliminating head movement from the syntax
19
2.4.1.1Post-syntactic movement/operations
19
2.4.1.2Remnant phrasal movement
20
2.4.2Reformulating head movement in the syntax
20
2.4.3Interim summary
21
2.5Recent pursuits of a unified theory of movement
21
2.5.1Head movement to the specifier position
22
2.5.2No head-specific locality constraint
23
2.5.3The interpretation of head movement
23
2.6Summary
24
Chapter 3.Intervention effects: Verb movement to peripheral positions
25
3.1Introduction
25
3.2Intervention effects and head movement
29
3.2.1Intervention due to identical structural types
29
3.2.2The particular nature of the HMC and exceptions to the HMC
32
3.2.3Base generation and remnant movement and as alternatives
35
3.2.4Interim summary
37
3.3Verb doubling constructions and discourse effects
37
3.3.1Types of verbs
38
3.3.2Morpho-syntactic properties and variants
42
3.3.2.1Topic constructions of verbs
42
3.3.2.2‘Even’-focus constructions of verbs
44
3.3.2.3Copula focus constructions of verbs
45
3.3.2.4Dislocation copying of verbs
46
3.3.2.5Interim summary
47
3.3.3Discourse effects
48
3.3.3.1Contrastive verbal topics
48
3.3.3.2Additive verbal foci
49
3.3.3.3Exhaustive verbal foci
51
3.3.3.4Defocused verbs
52
3.3.3.5Interim summary
54
3.4Evidence for verb movement
55
3.4.1Lexical identity effects
55
3.4.2Island effects
59
3.4.2.1Island sensitivity
59
3.4.2.2Long-distance/Cross-clausal dependencies
61
3.4.2.3Interim summary
61
3.4.3Idiomatic expressions
62
3.5Focus Intervention Effects
63
3.5.1No intervention by heads
64
3.5.2Intervention by focused elements
65
3.5.3No intervention by quantificational elements
70
3.5.4Interim summary
72
3.6Proposal: Head movement to the specifier position
72
3.6.1Details of the proposal
73
3.6.2An illustration of the proposal
75
3.6.3Deriving the properties of verb doubling constructions
78
3.6.3.1The ordering of the functional projections in the CP periphery
78
3.6.3.2The movement properties in verb doubling constructions
79
3.6.3.3A syntactic explanation of Focus Intervention Effects
80
3.7Alternative analyses to a head movement approach
83
3.7.1Non-movement approaches
83
3.7.1.1Base generation
83
3.7.1.2Base generation plus operator movement
85
3.7.2Phrasal movement approaches
87
3.7.2.1Remnant VP movement
87
3.7.2.2VP movement with subsequent deletion
88
3.8Discussions and implications
90
3.8.1Reformulating the Head Movement Constraint
90
3.8.2A parallel analysis with phrasal movement
92
3.8.3Focus Intervention Effects in phrasal movement
94
3.9Conclusions
96
Chapter 4.Scope effects: Movement of quantificational heads
97
4.1Introduction
97
4.2(Non-)occurrence of semantic effects with head movement: An ongoing debate
99
4.2.1A lack of semantic effects?
100
4.2.2Discourse effects of head movement
103
4.2.3Scope effects of head movement
104
4.2.3.1Movement of (quantificational) determiners
105
4.2.3.2Movement of negation
106
4.2.3.3Movement of modal verbs
110
4.2.3.4Movement of aspectual verbs
112
4.2.4Interim summary
112
4.3The distribution of aspectual verbs and modal verbs
113
4.3.1The (restricted) high position
113
4.3.2Verbs that can appear in the high position
115
4.3.2.1Aspectual verbs
115
4.3.2.2Modal verbs
116
4.3.2.3Interim summary
118
4.3.3Quantificational elements
118
4.3.4Focused elements
122
4.3.5Interim summary
124
4.4Proposal: Scope-shifting head movement
124
4.4.1Two components of the proposal
124
4.4.1.1Overt scope-shifting head movement
125
4.4.1.2Scope Economy
127
4.4.2Deriving the properties of movement of quantificational heads
129
4.4.2.1Deriving the quantificational scope effects
129
4.4.2.2Deriving the focus scope effects
131
4.4.2.3Deriving the restriction on verbs
134
4.4.3Remarks on the landing site and the trigger
137
4.4.3.1The landing site
137
4.4.3.2The trigger
140
4.5Further evidence for the proposal
142
4.5.1Stacking of quantificational heads in the high position
142
4.5.2Shortest Move
143
4.5.3Movement out of coordinate structures
147
4.5.4A remark on the indeterminacy of island sensitivity
148
4.6Alternative analyses to a head movement approach
150
4.6.1Multiple base positions of aspectual verbs and modal verbs
150
4.6.2An in-situ approach to aspectual verbs and modal verbs
152
4.6.3A remnant movement approach
153
4.6.4Movement of aspectual verbs and modal verbs as phrasal movement
154
4.7Discussions and implications
156
4.7.1Semantic effects of head movement
156
4.7.2A parallel observation with phrasal elements
156
4.7.3The trigger of head movement
158
4.8Conclusions
161
Chapter 5.Linearization: Doubling effects of heads and phrases
162
5.1Introduction
162
5.2Asymmetries in doubling in Cantonese
165
5.3Proposal: Cyclic Linearization and Copy Deletion suspension
167
5.3.1Cyclic Linearization
167
5.3.2Copy Deletion suspension
169
5.4Deriving the asymmetries in doubling
172
5.4.1Licit and illicit cases in topic constructions
172
5.4.2Licit, illicit and optional cases in right dislocation
174
5.4.2.1Licit cases
174
5.4.2.2Illicit cases
176
5.4.2.3Optional cases
178
5.4.3A remark on differences in acceptability
182
5.4.4Resolving a further asymmetry in doubling
183
5.5Alternative explanations to the doubling effects
184
5.6Extension: Verb movement without doubling
186
5.7Conclusions
192
Chapter 6.Conclusions
194
References
195
Index
213
