WhMovement: Moving on (Current Studies in Linguistics (Paperback)),Used

ReviewA topic of everlasting importance and interest, kept at the forefront of the field by this fine collection. Some of the articles, by a good mix of eminent and rising scholars, have already attracted widespread attention. Not to be missed.C.T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard UniversityProduct DescriptionWhmovementthe phenomenon by which interrogative words appear at the beginning of interrogative sentencesis one of the central displacement operations of human language. Noam Chomsky's 1977 paper 'On WhMovement,' a landmark in the study of whmovement (and movement in general), showed that this computational operation is the basis of a variety of syntactic constructions that had previously been described in terms of constructionspecific rules. Taking Chomsky's paper as a starting point, the contributors to this collection reconsider a number of the issues raised in 'On WhMovement' from the perspective of contemporary Minimalist syntactic theory (which explores the thesis that human language is a system optimally designed to meet certain interface conditions imposed by other cognitive systems with which the language faculty interacts). They discuss such whmovement issues as whphrases and piedpiping, the formation of Abar chains and the copy theory of movement, cyclicity and locality of whmovement, and the typology of whconstructions. By reconsidering core characteristics of the whmovement operation first systematically discussed by Chomsky from the Minimalist perspective, this volume contributes to the further development of the theory of whmovement and to the general theory of movement.ContributorsBrian Agbayani, Lisa LaiShen Cheng, Sandra Chung, Norbert Corver, Caterina Donati, Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Toru Ishii, Heejeong Ko, Howard Lasnik, Philip LeSourd, Chris H. Reintges, Luigi Rizzi, Balzs Surnyi, Akira Watanabe, Henrietta YangReview'A topic of everlasting importance and interest, kept at the forefront of the field by this fine collection. Some of the articles, by a good mix of eminent and rising scholars, have already attracted widespread attention. Not to be missed.'C.T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University& quot; A topic of everlasting importance and interest, kept at the forefront of the field by this fine collection. Some of the articles, by a good mix of eminent and rising scholars, have already attracted widespread attention. Not to be missed.& quot; C.T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University' A topic of everlasting importance and interest, kept at the forefront of the field by this fine collection. Some of the articles, by a good mix of eminent and rising scholars, have already attracted widespread attention. Not to be missed.' C.T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard UniversityC.T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard UniversityAbout the AuthorNorbert Corver is Professor of Dutch Linguistics at Utrecht University.Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) at MIT and the author of many influential books on linguistics, including Aspects of the Theory of Syntax and The Minimalist Program, both published by the MIT Press.