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Unifying Long Head Movement with Phrasal Movement: A New Argument from Spellout
Karlos Arregi and Asia Pietraszko
21-31 (complete paper or proceedings contents)

Abstract

Long head movement shares properties of both short head movement and phrasal movement: while it specifically targets heads, it does not obey the strict locality conditions that short head movement is subject to, such as the Head Movement Constraint. This leaves long head movement with no obvious place in the theory of movement, as it has mixed properties of head and phrasal movements. This paper argues that Breton V-fronting (a well-known case of long head movement) is like phrasal movement in that they are both instances of the same operation, namely Move/Internal Merge, and that short head movement is a different type of operation. The argument is based on the novel observation that V-fronting in Breton has the same spellout possibilities as VP-fronting crosslinguistically.

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Proceedings of the 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Rachel Soo, Una Y. Chow, and Sander Nederveen
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