Intervention is a function of the degree of similarity. Anagnostopoulou fox advanced syntax, spring 2007 weak islands and relativized minimality 1. First of all, let us consider relativized minimality. Relativized minimality authorizes the formation of the relevant chains between the. Relativized minimality constrains the extraction of nonreferential phrases like adjuncts. The syntax of passives under the smuggling approach. Ecp effects, xpbarriers and minimality barriers recall two types of ecp effects. These findings have been interpreted within the relativized minimality rm approach, according to which local relations cannot be established between two terms of a dependency if an intervening element possesses similar morphosyntactic features. Locality constraints state of the art 19 general assumptions. Following the approach of relativized minimality rm rizzi, 1990 to constraint movement, in a configuration like 1, x and y fail to relate if z, the intervener, which is structurally closer to x, can act as its antecedent because of its featural configuration. Relativized minimality, datives, and reflexive suffixes. Luigi rizzi 2 central unresolved theoretical issues. We explain this discrepancy using relativized minimality rm, rizzi 2004. Freely browse and use ocw materials at your own pace.
It is plausible to assume that both spec, cp and spec, poip are a specifiers. Moreover, it is unclear why a constraint on precedence in the sstructure restricts the interpretation of a sentence. Covert whfocus movement obeys derivational relativized minimality in japanese masako maeda however, it is commonly assumed that operators move leftward irrespective of whether the language is head initial or head final. Three acceptability studies examined the role of lexical restriction and dlinking. Third, we also manage to provide a cartographic approach concerning the syntactic positions of. Pdf on relativized minimality, memory and cuebased. The thesis has not yet been published in book format2. This paper shows that bellettis 1988 and raposo and uriagerekas 1990 arguments against long distance nominative assignment in gb carry over to long distance agreement within the agreebased model chomsky 2000, 2001. Merge pdf files combine pdfs in the order you want with the easiest pdf merger available. Once you merge pdfs, you can send them directly to your email or download the file to our computer and view. The latest versions of adobe reader do not support viewing pdf files within firefox on mac os and if you are using a modern intel mac, there is no official plugin for viewing pdf files within the browser window. Intervention effects in grammar and language acquisition in.
Covert whfocus movement obeys derivational relativized. Rearrange individual pages or entire files in the desired order. Comprehension of relative clauses by l2 learners of english. In the configuration x z y a local relation connecting x and y is disrupted when there is a z such that.
Pdf merge combinejoin pdf files online for free soda pdf. Crosslinguistic studies have shown that typically developing children have difficulties comprehending noncanonical structures. Object extraction is not subject to child relativized. On syntactic representations the possibility of representing syntactic configurations as tree graphs expressing hierarchical structures in a visually effective manner always had a high impact on the heuristic capacity of. View enhanced pdf access article on wiley online library html view download pdf for offline viewing.
Thus rizzi provides two ways to establish a dependency. Pdf relativized minimality and the extended peeking. Relativized minimality and the cartography of structural positions. It offers a new characterization of locality in the theory of government through a relativization of the minimality principle, and it explores the consequences of this approach for the empty category principle and the analysis of a variety of empirical domains, including intervention effects, thattrace phenomena, and argumentadjunct asymmetries. Case assignment in cantonese from that of mandarin as described by li 1990.
Pdf many studies find true verbal passives in english acquired only. If so, it is difficult to explain why the whphrase in 4 can prepose over the locative phrase in. Luigi rizzi 2 central unresolved theoretical issues a what are the major open questions in the theory of generative syntax today. It was first observed by huang 1984, 1987, 1998 that the embedded null object under. When a syntactic dependency holds between nodes a and b, a condition may hold of. The major cases illustrating such relativized minimality rm effects involve the theory of chains. The empirical phenomena brought to bear on minimalitymlc in the present.
On relativized minimality, memory and cuebased parsing. Object extraction is not subject to child relativized minimality helen goodluck department of language and linguistic science, university of york, york yo10 5dd, uk 1. Implicit arguments and relativized minimality dimitris. Because of this, section v of part 1 will be devoted to briefly comparing the systems of 0role and case assignment in cantonese and mandarin. The volume is a collection of 12 papers which focus on empirical and theoretical issues associated with syntactic phenomena falling under the rubric of relativized minimality rizzi 1990 or, in more recent terms, minimal link condition mlc, chomsky 1995.
The asymmetries classes of features local actions on phrases by heads. Deriving locality constraints in the minimalist program. Fabian beijer 1 introduction after having presented the main ideas at various seminars, conferences and egg summer schools1 at least since 1999, michal starke completed his doctoral thesis in 2001. Intervention locality is expressed in the different effects subsumed under relativized minimality or the minimal link condition minimal search and also, to a certain extent, the aovera tradition itself, as well as certain interpretive locality effects in multiple wh constructions, in anaphor binding. The asymmetries classes of features local actions on phrases by heads relativized minimality effects the handbook of contemporary syntactic theory wiley online library. In nominals with understood agents in greek, the internal argument is realized either as a genitive dp or as a genitive clitic potentially appearing prenominally, attached to a high adjective. Whyi did you wonder whether i bought the book ti b. Section 5 shows that this version of relativized minimality also accounts for control and raising within nominals once we take into account the role of inherent case in circumventing. Rizzi, 1990, or the merge of an empty pro due to the pro support strategy employed in mandarin. Quickly focus, someone will make the documents vanish. Pdf minimality effects in childrens passives researchgate. The proposal of locative inversion will entail a different conception of 0role and.
Relativized minimality and the extended peeking principle. Arguments with referential theta roles are, however, exempt from the effects of relativized minimality. Rizzi 1990 collected these and other observations under a common analysis in terms. To change the order of your pdfs, drag and drop the files as you want. On relativized minimality, memory and cuebased parsing it is argued that relativized minimality rm, rizzi 1990 and starke 2001, a. The central ecprelated proposal that rizzi 1990 makes is to relativize minimality so that government is blocked only when competing governors match in. This paper shows that bellettis 1988 and raposo and uriagerekas 1990 arguments against long distance nominative assignment in gb carry over to long distance agreement within. Featural relativized minimality while in previous systems the contrast between 2 and 3 was addressed by assuming that whelements like which problem can use nonlocal devices connecting them to their traces rizzi, 1990 assumed the possibility of a nonlocal binding. Predictions from relativized minimality are borne out except for complex identity. Two patterns of minimality many syntactic phenomena have been described as being subject to locality conditions. The pdf file you selected should load here if your web browser has a pdf reader plugin installed for example. Relativized minimality which partly modifies krapova and cinques 2008.