This volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative research into the properties of phrasal and feature movement, which explore these key syntactic phenomena from different angles and across languages. The papers advance or build on models of movement which capitalize either on generalized feature movement or on generalized remnant movement. Both these approaches attempt to develop a restrictive theory of movement aiming at a simplification of the operations of the computational system. Despite the fact that they are so different technically, generalized feature movement and generalized remnant movement both push the theory of movement to the same direction in two important respects: (a) Elimination of head movement. (b) Elimination of covert movement. The book is of primary interest to researchers and students in theoretical linguistics and syntactic theory.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Sjef Barbiers and Hans-Martin Gärtner 3 2. Raising without infinitives and the role of agreement Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou 17 3. Prosodic diagnostics for remnant AP movement in Polish Piotr Bański 31 4. Remnant stranding and the theory of Movement Sjef Barbiers 47 5. VOS in Portuguese: arguments against an analysis in terms of remnant movement João Costa 69 6. Against remnant VP-movement Gisbert Fanselow 91 7. Remnant movement and partial deletion Roland Hinterhölzl 127 8. Derivations and complexity filters Hilda Koopman 151 9. Feature movement or agreement at a distance? Howard Lasnik 189 10. Two types of remnant movement Gereon Müller 209 11. On feature movement Masanori Nakamura 243 12. CP-pied-piping and remnant IP movement in long distance wh-movement Máire B. Noonan 269 13. Phrasal movement in Hebrew adjectives and possessives Ivy Sichel 297 Index 341