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Agreement and Head Movement: Clitics, Incorporation, and Defective Goals (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs),Used
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ReviewIn Agreement and Head Movement, Roberts has one major goal in mind: to show that head movement, which at times has been relegated to PF, in fact belongs in narrow syntax with phrasal movement. From the huge literature on the topic, he distills the most essential elements in order to develop a highly sophisticated analysis; and he marshals evidence for it from a remarkable range of languages. Whether one agrees with him or not, this is a work that absolutely cannot be ignored. Its achievement puts it alongside Baker's study of incorporation in the scope and depth of inquiry into how heads interact with other heads and phrases.Shigeru Miyagawa, MITProduct DescriptionAn argument that, contrary to Chomsky, headmovement is part of the narrow syntax.In Agreement and Head Movement, Ian Roberts explores the consequences of Chomsky's conjecture that headmovement is not part of the narrow syntax, the computational system that relates the lexicon to the interfaces. Unlike other treatments of the subject that discard the concept entirely, Roberts's monograph retains the core intuition behind headmovement and examines to what extent it can be reformulated and rethought. Roberts argues that the current conception of syntax must accommodate a species of headmovement, although this operation differs somewhat in technical detail and in empirical coverage from earlier understandings of it. He proposes that headmovement is part of the narrow syntax and that it applies where the goal of an Agree relation is defective, in a sense that he defines.Roberts argues that the theoretical status of headmovement is very similarin fact identical in various waysto that of XPmovement. Thus headmovement, like XPmovement, should be regarded as part of narrow syntax exactly to the extent that XPmovement should be. If one aspect of minimalist theorizing is to eliminate unnecessary distinctions, then Roberts's argument can be seen as eliminating the distinction between 'heads' and 'phrases' in relation to internal merge (and therefore reducing the distinctions currently made between internal and external merge).Linguistic Inquiry Monographs 59About the AuthorIan Roberts is Professor of Linguistics and Professorial Fellow at Downing College at the University of Cambridge.
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