dc.contributor.author | Polinsky, Maria | |
dc.contributor.author | Potsdam, Eric | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-07-05T17:39:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. Forthcoming. Diagnosing covert A-movement. In Diagnostics in Syntax, ed. Lisa Cheng and Norbert Corver. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4937326 | |
dc.description.abstract | Covert movement is movement that is not phonologically visible in the syntactic derivation. While covert A'-movement is widely proposed, covert A-movement is quite uncommon and difficult to identify. This chapter discusses diagnostics for covert A-movement and ways in which it can be distinguished from non-movement. We propose that covert A-movement is found in subject-to-subject raising in the Northwest Caucasian language Adyghe (Potsdam and Polinsky 2012). We compare the Adyghe construction with unaccusatives in Russian, which we show do not involve covert A-movement (contra Babyonyshev et al. 2001). We demonstrate that a range of mostly theory independent phenomena can be used to determine whether covert A-movement occurs in a given construction, using Adyghe and Russian as contrasting test cases. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Linguistics | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en_US |
dc.relation.hasversion | http://scholar.harvard.edu/mpolinsky/publications/diagnosing-covert-movement | en_US |
dash.license | META_ONLY | |
dc.subject | covert movement | en_US |
dc.subject | A-movement | en_US |
dc.subject | subject-to-subject raising | en_US |
dc.subject | Adyghe (Circassian) | en_US |
dc.subject | Russian | en_US |
dc.subject | unaccusatives | en_US |
dc.title | Diagnosing Covert A-Movement | en_US |
dc.type | Monograph or Book | en_US |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript | en_US |
dash.depositing.author | Polinsky, Maria | |
dash.embargo.until | 10000-01-01 | |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Polinsky, Maria | |