chapter 11 Movement and Concepts of Locality

Abstract

Abstract I would like to illustrate certain concepts of locality which arise in the context of the theory of movement, a very central component of natural language syntax. I will start by briefly introducing the notion of movement, on the basis of some concrete examples. When you hear a sentence like (1), starting with the wh-operator what, one thing that you must determine in order to understand the sentence is what verb that element is construed with, what argument structure it belongs to. And the relevant verb can come very early or be quite far away from what, as is the verb buy in our example:

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