Summary Details
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Strong/Weak Crossover
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| Author: | Mohammad Rasekh | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Syntax
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| Summary: |
Here is a summary of the responses on strong/weak
crossover: Illicit movement of an operator (for instance a wh-word) across a pronoun in argument position when the pronoun c-commands the variable (trace) of the operator and pronoun and trace are coindexed. This sounds difficult but isn't quite so: (1) *Whoi, does hei think, ti has won the competition? (1) is ungrammatical with the indexing indicated. Given this coindexing the interpretation of this sentence would be: For what x, x a person: x believes, that x has won the competition. In this case the variable (who) crosses a pronoun in argument position (A position) (he). he c-commands the variable (trace t) and there is coindexing of trace, pronoun and operator. Compare this with the well-formed (2) Whoi ti thinks, hei has won the competition? weak crossover: Illicit movement of an operator over a constituent (his mother in (3)) which c-commands the variable (trace) and contains a pronoun coindexed with this variable: (3) *Whoi does [hisi mother] really like ti? For what x, x a person: the mother of x likes x. There is no weak crossover effect with A-movement: (4) Johni seems to hisi sister [ti to be a fool]. All A'-movements (that is movement in non-argument position) are subject to the strong crossover effect while only those A'-movement relations involving a quantifier-variable relation are subject to the weak crossover effect. wh-words behave as other quantifiers do. Compare the question operator of (3) with the relative operator in (5) (and with the topicalization in (6)): (5) Johni, whoi hisi mother really likes ti ... (6) Johni, hisi mother really likes ti. ===== Mohammad Rasekh Mahand English and Linguistics Department Litrature and Humanities Faculty Bu-Ali Sina University Hamadan,IRAN. |
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| LL Issue: | 13.2039 | |
| Date Posted: | 06-Aug-2002 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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