Here, 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.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a universal word order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and discusses the theoretical implications of this phenomenon. FOFC is a syntactic condition that disallows structures where a head-initial phr…