The Rightward Analysis of wh-Movement in ASL: A Reply to Petronio and Lillo-Martin  

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Neidle, Carol ; MacLaughlin, Dawn ; Lee, Robert G. ; Bahan, Benjamin ; Kegl, Judy

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 74 no. 4 (1998), page 819-831.
Fulltext: Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 819-831.pdf (1.48MB)

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Neidle, Kegl, Bahan, Aarons, & MacLaughlin 1997 argues that rightward WH- movement in ASL constitutes a counterexample to claims by Kayne (1994) that all phrasal projections exhibit specifier-head-complement order and that syntactic movement is leftward. Petronio & Lillo-Martin 1997, although not adopting Kayne's antisymmetry framework, offers a critique of our analysis and a proposal involving leftward wH-movement. Here, we argue that Petronio and Lillo-Mar- tin's interpretations of the data are incorrect and that their analysis cannot account for the facts of the language. We therefore maintain our position that ASL WH- phrases move rightward in ASL, and that universal grammar must allow the option of rightward movement.*

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