Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
Four types of Internal Merge and the locus of Linearization
- Date
- Thursday 15 May 2025
- Time
- Series
- Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 2.23
Abstract
Even if Internal Merge (IM) takes the same form in all of its instantiations, distinct cases can be identified depending on the different types of landing sites they target, and of the different timing of their application. I will be concerned with four of them (A-movement, A-bar movement, the movements involved in cross-linguistic word order variation, and those underlying deletion (IM1, IM2, IM3, and IM4 respectively). Before considering some of their properties and their order of application (whereby IM1 precedes IM2, IM2 precedes IM3, and IM3 precedes IM4), I briefly discuss evidence that movement is at the basis of cross-linguistic word order variation, and of ‘deletion’, as the involvement of Internal Merge in these two domains is not always taken for granted. I will finally consider possible implications for the place of linearization in the architecture of UG.
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