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orion.oac.uci.edu>Irvine Linguistics Students Association is pleased to announce the publication of the following UCI Dissertation in Linguistics. Overt Movement as a Reflex of Morphology Hajime Ikawa Under the framework of the minimalist program, this thesis answers fundamental questions with overt movement such as (i) what forces its application, and (ii) what is responsible for its presence/absence in languages. Chapter 1 raises the above-mentioned fundamental questions with overt movement. It is shown that the current minimalist framework, as it is, does not explain any of them in a principled way. Chapter 2 introduces two major operations assumed by the minimalist program, Merge and Move. Chapter 3 first undertakes to identify the cause of overt movement in a way consistent with the basic minimalist assumption that any application of overt movement, as a departure from the best case, should be forced from the outside of the core computational system. It is claimed that overt movement is directly driven by the module Morphology, which applies right after Spell-Out; overt movement, whether head-movement or XP-movement, is forced to apply to morphologically support the suffixal functional heads. This claim automatically leads to derive the absence of overt movement in consistently head-final languages like Japanese from their word order. The proposed analysis not only provides principled answers for the fundamental questions with overt movement, but eliminates one of the most problematic aspects of the minimalist program, the strong/weak distinction among functional heads. Chapter 4 discusses various implications and consequences of the proposed analysis for overt movement, phrase structure, the computational system, and typological variations. Chapter 5 discusses overt NP-raising as overt movement indirectly driven by the morphological properties of AGR. It is claimed that a subject in nominative-accusative languages overtly raises not to directly support AGR, but to provide f-features for AGR so that it can be successfully suffixed to a verb as the overt realization of the f-features of an NP. From this, asymmetries between overt NP-raising and other overt movements directly driven by Morphology naturally follow. Also available: > UCI Dissertations in Linguistics Griffith, Teresa A. 1996 Projecting Transitivity and Agreement Takano, Yuji 1996 Movement and Parametric Variation in Syntax Zoerner, Cyril Edward 1995 Coordination: The Syntax of &P US$14 each, plus shipping and handling > UCI Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 3 (1997). Edited by Luther > Chen-Sheng Liu and Kazue Takeda Articles appearing in the third volume are: Brian Agbayani: Category Raising, Adjunction, and Minimality Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng: "Partial" Wh-Movement Naoki Fukui: Attract and the A-over-A Principle Toru Ishii: The " Crossing" Constraint and the Minimal Link Condition Luther Chen-Sheng Liu: Light Verb and Accusative-ing Gerund in Taiwanese Yuji Takano: Object Shift as Short Scrambling Kazue Takeda: A Note on Locality of Category Movement and Feature Movement Sze-Wing Tang: The Parametric Approach to the Resultative Construction in Chinese and English Miyoko Yashui: Identification of Ellipses and Other Empty Categories US$14 , plus shipping and handling > UCI Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 2: Proceedings of the South > Western Optimality Theory Workshop (SWOT II). Edited by Brian Agbayani > and Naomi Harada US $12, plus shipping and handling > UCI Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 1. Edited by Brian Agbayani, > Kazue Takeda and Sze-Wing Tang US$12, plus shipping and handling Shipping and handling (per item) Domestic: $5; Canada: $6; Mexico: $7 (airmail), $5 (surface); Elsewhere: $12 (airmail), $7 (surface) * International shipping and handling rates are subject to the numbers of items ordered and location. Please contact <ilsaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue