Edges and linearization
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Trinh, Tue H. (Tue Huu)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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Noam Chomsky, Danny Fox, Irene Heim and David Pesetsky.
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This thesis is concerned with how grammar determines the phonological consequence of syntactic dislocation. It centers on a hypothesis regarding the linearization of movement chains - the Edge Condition on Copy Deletion, eventually named the Edge Condition in the last chapter, when it receives its final formulation. The empirical phenomena under investigation include (i) predicate cleft constructions in German, Dutch, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Swedish and Norwegian, (ii) NP-split constructions in Vietnamese and (iii) cross-linguistic variation in head ordering patterns.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2011. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-149).
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2011Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and PhilosophyPublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Linguistics and Philosophy.