Provocative syntax / Phil Branigan.
| Author/creator | Branigan, Phil |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, |
| Description | x, 176 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
| Subjects |
| Series | Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 61 Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 61. ^A654564 |
| Contents | Provocation. Introduction -- The inner workings of provocation -- Virtues of provocation -- Clausal provocation -- Chain formation -- Provoking head movement -- Provocative case studies. Quotative inversion -- Negative inversion -- Germanic verb-second clauses -- Force and provocation. Evidence for fin-to-force movement -- On wh-movement -- The distribution of embedded-verb second clauses -- Appendix: selection of clausal complements -- Provoking trace deletion. Introduction -- That-trace effects -- Crosslinguistic variation -- A spooky constraint -- Short wh-movement in embedded questions. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-173) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010015791 |
| ISBN | 9780262014991 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262014998 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780262515597 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262515598 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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