Agreement and Head Movement: Clitics, Incorporation, and Defective Goals

by Ian Roberts

An argument that, contrary to Chomsky, head-movement is part of the narrow syntax.

In Agreement and Head Movement, Ian Roberts explores the consequences of Chomsky's conjecture that head-movement 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 head-movement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026251432X
• ISBN13: 9780262514323
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher