ConSOLE 15 2007 Center for Research In Syntax, Semantics & Phonology (CRISSP), Brussels

Copies

Kyle Johnson

University of Massachusetts at Amherst

kbj@linguist.umass.edu
Copy TheoryMovementLinearization Algorithm

Abstract

After offering a slight modification of the version of the copy theory of movement in Fox (2002), I investigate how that theory would deal with semantically vacuous movement. It can't. I conclude that semantically vacuous movement cannot involve the same operation that produces copies. Instead, I propose that it is a perversion of the linearization algorithm that translates syntactic representations into strings, and I formulate that perversion.

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APA Style

Kyle Johnson (2007). copies. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 15, edited by Sylvia Blaho, Camelia Constantinescu, Erik Schoorlemmer, (pp. 91-110).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Johnson-Copy-2008, title={Copies}, author={Kyle Johnson}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 15}, year={2007}, pages={91-110}, editor={Sylvia Blaho and Camelia Constantinescu and Erik Schoorlemmer} }