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Contiguity Theory and Pied-Piping

Author(s) -

Norvin Richards

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

linguistic inquiry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.61

H-Index - 69

eISSN - 1530-9150

pISSN - 0024-3892

DOI - 10.1162/ling_a_00353

Subject(s) - contiguity , piping , connection (principal bundle) , linguistics , phenomenon , mathematics , computer science , philosophy , geometry , engineering , epistemology , mechanical engineering , operating system

In this article, I apply the conditions of Contiguity Theory (Richards 2016) to the problem of pied-piping. I derive the conditions on pied-piping discovered by Cable (2007, 2010a,b) and account for the connection discovered by Uribe-Etxebarria (2002) between the conditions on wh-in-situ in a given language and the conditions on pied-piping in that language. In the end, as in Cable’s approach, pied-piping dissolves as a phenomenon; the same conditions that determine when overt movement must take place also determine how much material may be pied-piped.

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