Quantifier Float and wh-Movement in an Irish English  

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McCloskey, James

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistic Inquiry (ada di JSTOR) vol. 31 no. 1 (2000), page 57-84.
Fulltext: Vol 31 No 1 pp 57-84.pdf (2.85MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LII/31 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The English of northwestern Ireland allows quantifier float of a previously undocumented kind in wh-questions. The quantifier all, though construed with a fronted wh-pronoun, may appear in a position considerably to the right of that pronoun. It is argued that all so stranded marks a position through which a wh-phrase has passed or in which a wh-phrase originates. The construction then provides visible evidence for intermediate derivational stages. This evidence is used to develop a new argument for successive cyclicity and to argue for overt object shift in English and for an origin site for subjects strictly within VP and below the object shift position. Keywords: quantifier float, wh-movement, successive cyclicity, object shift, verb raising, VP-intemal subjects

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