Open AccessThe ban on headless XP-movement is not narrow syntactic
Author(s) -
Carlos Muñoz Pérez
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cadernos de estudos lingüísticos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-0686
pISSN - 0102-5767
DOI - 10.20396/cel.v63i00.8661432
Subject(s) - movement (music) , generalization , phrase , constraint (computer aided design) , conjecture , head (geology) , computation , linguistics , computer science , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , mathematics , combinatorics , philosophy , programming language , geometry , geology , aesthetics , mathematical analysis , geomorphology
This paper argues that the ban on headless XP-movement should not be captured in narrow syntactic terms. That is, there is no constraint in the syntactic computation preventing remnant movement of a phrase from which the head has been extracted, i.e., so-called Takano’s Generalization is wrong. This is demonstrated through a case study of the emphatic doubling construction in Rioplatense Spanish, which requires a derivation proceeding exactly along these lines. It is further argued that the relevant prohibition should be stated as a condition that applies at PF: A preliminary conjecture on the nature of this prohibition is also offered.