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The Unity of Movement: Evidence from verb movement in Cantonese
Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 283] 2024
► pp. 7–24

Chapter 2
Approaching head movement

Article outline
  • 2.1Introduction
  • 2.2The origin of head movement
    • 2.2.1From independent transformation rules to Move-α
    • 2.2.2Constraints on head movement
  • 2.3The debates surrounding head movement
    • 2.3.1Theoretical concerns of the adjunction approach to head movement
      • 2.3.1.1The Extension Condition
      • 2.3.1.2The Empty Category Principle/ Proper Binding Principle
      • 2.3.1.3The non-successive cyclic nature
      • 2.3.1.4Locality constraints
      • 2.3.1.5The Chain Uniformity Condition
    • 2.3.2Empirical differences with phrasal movement?
      • 2.3.2.1The locality constraints on head movement
      • 2.3.2.2The interpretive effects of head movement
      • 2.3.2.3The morpho-phonological realization of head movement
  • 2.4Non-unity approaches to head and phrasal movement
    • 2.4.1Eliminating head movement from the syntax
      • 2.4.1.1Post-syntactic movement/operations
      • 2.4.1.2Remnant phrasal movement
    • 2.4.2Reformulating head movement in the syntax
    • 2.4.3Interim summary
  • 2.5Recent pursuits of a unified theory of movement
    • 2.5.1Head movement to the specifier position
    • 2.5.2No head-specific locality constraint
    • 2.5.3The interpretation of head movement
  • 2.6Summary
  • Notes