Ian Roberts
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262014304
- eISBN:
- 9780262289726
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262014304.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics / Cognitive Linguistics
This chapter explores how head movement relates to the general theory of movement, focusing on “excorporation” and the Head Movement Constraint (HMC). Whereas excorporation is permitted in head ...
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This chapter explores how head movement relates to the general theory of movement, focusing on “excorporation” and the Head Movement Constraint (HMC). Whereas excorporation is permitted in head movement only under highly constrained conditions, the HMC is nonexistent. As in all other cases of movement, head movement is subject to the locality conditions imposed by the Phase Impenetrability Condition and the general ban on interveners that is essential to the locality condition on Agree. The chapter also considers the possibility of head movement triggered by Edge Features (also known as “A0” head movement), and argues that such cases may exist, as “head topicalization/focalization” and as “wh-head movement.”Less
This chapter explores how head movement relates to the general theory of movement, focusing on “excorporation” and the Head Movement Constraint (HMC). Whereas excorporation is permitted in head movement only under highly constrained conditions, the HMC is nonexistent. As in all other cases of movement, head movement is subject to the locality conditions imposed by the Phase Impenetrability Condition and the general ban on interveners that is essential to the locality condition on Agree. The chapter also considers the possibility of head movement triggered by Edge Features (also known as “A0” head movement), and argues that such cases may exist, as “head topicalization/focalization” and as “wh-head movement.”
