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Univ Arizona, Dept LinguistIssue Date
2020-07-15Keywords
manner of directed motiontelic-pair formation
verb-framed language
satellite-framed language
head movement parameter
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typology
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A Head Movement Approach to Talmy’s Typology. (2020). Linguistic Inquiry. Retrieved from https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ling_a_00351Journal
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This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
We propose that the well-known verb-framed/satellite-framed variation observed by Talmy (1975,1985,2000) is a true syntactic parameter of a well-understood type: a head movement parameter. We claim that it depends on an uninterpretable feature bundled with the particular v head used in change-of-state constructions that forces the head of the Res(ult)P complement of v to undergo head movement to v in Italian. The technical apparatus employed is a feature-driven head movement parameter, of the same kind that accounts for the familiar V-to-T or T-to-C movement variation crosslinguistically. We argue that in Talmy's class of verb-framed languages, head movement of the embedded Res head to change-of-state v is mandatory, just as head movement of v to finite T is mandatory in V-to-T movement languages. Unlike previous proposals, this approach does not ascribe a deficiency to verb-framed languages, either in their semantic composition inventory or in their inventory of structural operations, both deficiencies being prima facie implausible from a biolinguistic/Minimalist perspective.ISSN
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Final accepted manuscriptae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1162/ling_a_00351