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Successive cyclicity, phases, and CED effects *
Author(s) -
Gallego Ángel J.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9582.2010.01175.x
Subject(s) - locality , movement (music) , context (archaeology) , linguistics , transitive relation , constraint (computer aided design) , subject (documents) , romance , computer science , mathematics , psychology , history , combinatorics , philosophy , geometry , archaeology , library science , psychoanalysis , aesthetics
. This paper discusses Chomsky’s (2008) phase‐based analysis of the Subject Condition (where islandhood is regarded as a locality constraint on phase edges ), paying particular attention to the claim that successive cyclic A‐movement can be used to circumvent islandhood in ϕ‐defective environments. Both hypotheses are considered in the context of Romance, where subextraction from (post‐verbal) subjects of transitive verbs has been reported to be possible since Uriagereka (1988). The paper puts forward an analysis that recasts Activity Condition accounts of CED effects (see Boeckx 2003) within the framework of phases (see Chomsky 2000 through the present). As will be shown, such an approach is superior to previous ones in that it covers not only the standard cases (where subjects undergo local movement to SPEC‐T), but also those where islandhood is avoided through A‐movement.