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First published in Iberia: An International Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, v1 n1 published by Universidad de Sevilla. Link: https://idus.us.es/handle/11441/72667

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Article

Publication Version

Published Version

Keywords

Movimento-A, Concordância, comparação, deficiência, derivação, economia, PPE, Merge, Move, Spell-Out/Transfer, domínio-T

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Iberia: An International Journal of Theoretical Linguistics

Volume

1

Issue

1

First Page

53

Last Page

114

Abstract

A class of proposals are examined that aim to avoid problems that arise in various instantiations of the ‘Merge over Move’ (MOM) cost-ofoperation distinction. It is concluded that while the mechanisms introduced there exhibit independently interesting features, they subtract substantially from the interest of the MOM economy of derivation explanations. The removal of an assumption will then be considered that makes the core cases involving there-constructions a problem to begin with: that non-finite T must host a specifier position (checking an EPP/D-feature). Denying the existence of such features removes the problem that the MOM distinction was introduced to solve, allowing the core cases of associate-movement vs. expletive-insertion to arise as a case of true optionality. Consequences for other phenomena are examined and the proposal is found to be consistent with much recent research investigating these phenomena.

Department

Department of Languages and Literatures

Original Publication Date

1-1-2009

Object Description

1 PDF File

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Copyright

©2009 Iberia: An International Journal of Theoretical Linguistic

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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