Syntactic movement is the means by which some theories of syntax address discontinuities. Movement was first postulated by structuralist linguists who...

"ordering". The field of syntax contains a number of various topics that a syntactic theory is often designed to handle. The relation between the topics is...

Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226674469. Webelhuth, Gert (1992). Principles and Parameters of Syntactic Saturation. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195361384....

In linguistics, wh-movement (also known as wh-fronting, wh-extraction, or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative...

plays a central role in defining and constraining operations such as syntactic movement, binding, and scope. Tanya Reinhart introduced c-command in 1976 as...

hierarchical position in the syntactic structure, as well as by certain post-syntactic operations. Head movement is the main syntactic operation determining...

was not their content but rather he was inspired by their levels of syntactic movement, framing, form and grammar. The Invincible Six (1970), an American...

appearance of parasitic gaps in (3) appears to be reliant on syntactic movement (e.g. wh-movement or topicalization), and presents two challenges: The fact...

S2CID 27849117. Friedmann, Naama; Gvion, Aviah; Novogrodsky, Rama (2006). "Syntactic Movement in Agrammatism and S-SLI: Two Different Impairments". In Adriana Belletti;...

sort have been used to argue that scope relations are determined by syntactic movement operations. Aside from their theoretical significance, scope islands...

Indian subcontinent Movement (sign language), the distinctive hand actions that form words in sign languages Syntactic movement, the means by which some...

transformational grammar use syntactic locality constraints to explain restrictions on argument selection, syntactic binding, and syntactic movement. Locality is observed...

take place with a variety of verbs (not just auxiliaries) and with other syntactic categories as well. When a layered constituency-based analysis of sentence...

X-bar theory is a model of phrase-structure grammar and a theory of syntactic category formation that was first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1970 reformulating...

processing selectivity in Broca's area: evident for structure but not syntactic movement". Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 30 (10): 1326–1338. doi:10...

consistent V2 word order. Syntactic theories based on phrase structure typically analyze subject–aux inversion using syntactic movement. In such theories, a...

tense-first. The LEFT movement is free from syntactic rules which is evidence for a post-syntactic phenomenon. With the LEFT movement, V2 word order can...

Bulgarian. Rather, what makes clitic doubling in Degema possible are syntactic (movement and anaphoricity) and discourse (emphasis and/or familiarity) factors...

Cross-linguistically, inalienability correlates with many morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties. In general, the alienable–inalienable distinction...

"Opx" and "x" which blocks the dependency in that sentence. wh-movement syntactic movement Complementizer Topic marker Chomsky, Noam. (1981) Lectures on...

an inserted subject (often a pronoun such as it or there), which is syntactically required, yet semantically meaningless, making no reference to anything...

In syntactic analysis, a constituent is a word or a group of words that function as a single unit within a hierarchical structure. The constituent structure...

subject-verb-object (SVO) word order with the surface VSO word order derived by syntactic movement of the verb to a higher position in the clause. On the other hand...

[vP <Mary> ate the cake ]. Movement: CP and vP can be the focus of pseudo-cleft movement, showing that CP and vP form syntactic units: this is shown in (3)...

Expletives Extraposition Gapping Heavy NP shift Inverse copula sentences Movement paradoxes Negative inversion Non-configurational language Parasitic gaps...

Semantically composite idioms have a syntactic similarity between their surface and semantic forms. The types of movement allowed for certain idioms also relate...

a syntactic asymmetry in Tongan. V1 word order can also be analyzed as a derivation from the more common SVO order through verbal phrase movement. This...

In formal syntax, tough movement refers to sentences in which the syntactic subject of the main verb is logically the object of an embedded non-finite...

phrase ("AdvP") is a multi-word expression operating adverbially: its syntactic function is to modify other expressions, including verbs, adjectives,...

occurs post-syntactically, at the morphological level. It is movement that occurs overtly at the phonetic form, after the syntactic movement has occurred...