UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 13 (2001)
Don’t move!
ANNABEL CORMACK & NEIL SMITH
We consider head-movement, A¢-movement, and A-movement.
We argue that of these three kinds of apparent movement, only head-movement
exhibits displacement in any real sense, and that all three kinds of structure
are made available directly by Merge. Merge itself is no longer implicitly
restricted to function argument application, but is
enriched to include other combinatorial operations derived from Combinatory Categorial Grammar. We argue that the re-interpretation of
‘movement’ is not only possible, but desirable on empirical and
conceptual grounds. We further consider why natural language should exhibit
these apparent displacements.
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