Verb Movement [Paperback]

This volume, with contributions from distinguished researchers, illustrates the best of recent work in the field of verb movement.Verb movement is now the center of current research in syntax and this text represents the latest work in an important field. Parallel to the theoretical interest has been the attention focused on the description of verb-second languages as well as movement operations.Verb movement is now the center of current research in syntax and this text represents the latest work in an important field. Parallel to the theoretical interest has been the attention focused on the description of verb-second languages as well as movement operations.Work on the movement of phrase categories, mostly Noun Phrases, has been a central element of syntactic theorizing almost since the earliest work on generative grammar. Work on the movement of lexical elements, heads, has been much less central until recent years. Verb movement is now, however, the center of current research in syntax. Parallel to the theoretical interest has been the attention focused on the description of verb-second languages and on the movement operations that place the verb in its second position. This volume represents the latest work from many of the leading researchers in an important field, and draws on analyses from a wide range of languages. It will have a significant impact on its field.Preface David Lightfoot and Norbert Hornstein; 1. Verb movement: an introduction Adriana Belletti; 2. Verb positions: evidence from Italian Jamal Ouhalla; 3. Verb movement and word order in Arabic Peter Coopmans; 4. Comments on the paper by Ouhalla Beatrice Santorini; 5. Some similarities and differences between Icelandic and Yiddish Kjartan Ott?sson; 6. Comments on the paper by Santorini Sten Vikner; 7. Finite verb movement in Scandinavian embedded clauses H?skuldur Thr?insson; 8. Comments on the paper by Vikner Randall Hendrick; 9. The Brythonic copula and head raising Edwin Williams; 10. A relÓ)