Head Movement in Syntax.

Intro -- Head Movement in Syntax -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations used in glosses -- Abstract -- Introduction -- SOV via head movement -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The position of the subject -- 2.3 The left edge -- 2.4 The position of the verb -- 2.5 Alternative analyses -- 2.5.1 Gapping -- 2.5.2 Right node raising -- 2.5.3 Optionality of operations -- 2.6 Further evidence -- 2.6.1 V+Argument constituents -- 2.6.2 Negation6 -- 2.6.3 Question-answer pairs -- 2.7 Addressing concerns about using co-ordination as a diagnostic tool -- 2.7.1 Some issues from Japanese -- 2.7.2 A case for RNR -- 2.8 Conclusion -- aanu Construction -- 3.2 Exhaustivity by presupposition -- 3.2.1 Testing for exhaustivity -- 3.2.2 Emphasis, Focus and Exhaustivity -- 3.2.2.1 Focus -- 3.2.2.2 A focus construction -- 3.2.2.3 Exhaustivity and contrastive focus -- Copula or Auxiliary -- Jayaseelan (2001) -- 3.2.3 Exhaustivity - by assertion and by presupposition -- 3.1 Function -- 3.1.1 Sasse (1987) -- 3.1.2 An important difference -- 3.2.4 Movement to the pre-aanu position -- 3.2.5 Auxiliaries, Modals and Bipartite Information Structure -- 3.3 Clause structure -- 3.3.1 Monoclausal or Biclausal? -- 3.3.2 Position of the verb -- 3.3.3 Position of the auxiliary: Evidence from A-bar movement. -- 3.3.4 Structure -- 3.4 Summary -- Wh in Malayalam - morphology -- 4.1 Wh and the pronominal paradigm -- 4.2 GoPro - pronominals and binding -- 4.2.1 Condition C -- 4.2.2 Condition B -- 4.2.3 Condition A and the emphatic marker tanne -- 4.2.4 Constraints on antecedents -- 4.3 Bound variable readings -- 4.4 Pro-noun, Pro-phi or Pro-DP? -- 4.5 Third person pronouns as inherently referential -- 4.6 Making an indeterminate pronoun -- 4.7 Wh = variable? Cole and Hermon (1998) -- 4.8 Summary -- Wh in interrogative constructions.

5.1 Wh in the verb-final construction -- 5.2 Parallels between Wh and indefinites -- 5.3 Wh and quantificational force -- 5.3.1 Scrambling -- 5.3.2 Wh+suffix -- 5.4 A differing view: Jayaseelan (2001) -- 5.5 The aanu construction -- 5.6 Focus movement? -- 5.7 Wh movement in aanu construction is not triggered by a focus feature -- 5.8 Summary -- Positioning the Wh -- 6.1 Wh as quantifier -- 6.2 Chinese is not Japanese -- 6.3 Cable (2010) -- 6.4 In search of Q -- 6.4.1 Morphology -- 6.4.2 Island effects: Tool for identifying the attachment site of Q -- 6.4.3 The nature of the relation between Q and Wh -- 6.5 Intervention effects -- 6.5.1 Verb-final constructions -- 6.5.2 aanu construction -- 6.5.3 A unified interpretation of the data -- 6.6 Conclusion -- In-situ versus movement -- 7.1 Feature driven movement -- 7.2 Being in the right domain: An alternative based on locality -- 7.2.2 Verb-final construction -- 7.2.3 aanu construction -- 7.3 Summary -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- 9.1 Greenberg's universe: Implications -- 9.2 Towards a minimalist account -- 9.3 Kayne (1994) -- 9.4 Brody (2000) -- 9.5 Haider (1993, 2000, 2010, 2013) -- 9.5.1 Haiderian framework and Malayalam -- 9.5.2 Malayalam versus German -- 9.5.3 Verb movement in Malayalam as bootstrapping movement -- 9.5.4 Empirical motivation with a new take on thetic/categorical distinction -- 9.6 Summing Up -- References -- Index.

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