Klaus Abels
University of Tromso
“On Improper Movement”
Friday
February 15th, 2008, 3:30pm
There will be a party in Klaus’ honor beginnning at 6:30pm at Pritty and Patrick’s place.
Abstract:
In this talk I propose to take a fresh look at the phenomenon of improper movement. How does (im)propriety of movement interact with remnant movement? How — with extraction from movement elements, i.e., with exceptions to the freezing principle? How — with a more articulated typology of movement relations than GB’s A/A’-distinction? On the basis of data largely from German and English, I reach the tentative conclusion that movement types must be ordered linearly.
If true, this gives rise to a more integrated and restrictive theory of movement than is currently available. I discuss one case, cross serial dependencies, where this restrictiveness is immediately apparent.