Smuggling in Syntax
Author | : Adriana Belletti |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2020 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780197509869 |
ISBN-13 | : 019750986X |
Rating | : 4/5 (86X Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Smuggling in Syntax by : Adriana Belletti
Download or read book Smuggling in Syntax written by Adriana Belletti and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. This book investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling, in which displacement occurs in two steps thus allowing for otherwise inaccessible movement operations.