_ rightward movement _ review editor note part one two part review second part appears next issue linguist beerman dorothee david leblanc henk van riemsdijk eds 1997 rightward movement linguistik aktuell 17 amsterdam benjamins 406 pp proceedings volume collecting together papers presented oct 1995 tilburg conference rightward movement editors mention two three papers presented conference including proceedings volume say two three although mention three authors kayne koike truckenbrodt koike actually paper volume know name included list authors whose papers included back book complete list addresses snail email contributors included editors preface van riemsdijk named principal author provides nice summary relevant issues background literature special note taken repercussions recent work minimalist program e g kayne 1994 whole notion rightward movement hereafter rm reviewer would note particular although commonly supposed stated preface minimalist approach movement exclusively triggered checking given new line thinking rightward movement simply triggered hence exist contributors e g alphonce davis buring hartmann demonstrate fact possible develop hypotheses within minimalist framework would enable triggering movement 14 papers collection hardly surprising 7 deal extraposition defined various ways four concerned primarily one aspect extraposition german discuss extraposition papers group considering others josef bayer paper cp extraposition argument shift pp 3758 begins nice neat summary problems classical extraposition account via rm postverbal cps v final languages focussing particularly bengali hindi german noting problems disappear kayne type analysis however goes note definite empirical problems kayne type analysis proposes analysis according complement rightadjoined maximal projection governing head case vp leaving behind trace sole sister head v trace deleted tree pruned v ends complement right thetamark alternatively bayer suggests least extraposed cps may basegenerated right coindexed dummy deletable pronominal inheritance licensed bayer notes would help account fact ov languages e g bengali certain classes cps always extraposed assume directionality relevant selection resulting vp constitutes barrier cp noncanonical side head would account scope effects bayer notes earlier problematic traditional account kayne type account rightward scrambling pp 186214 anoop mahajan argues basis various relations sensitive ccommand postverbal nominal arguments hindi merely constituents left behind everything else moved leftwards analysis supersedes rm analysis proposed unpublished paper ten years ago deliberately consistent analysis based kayne linear correspondence axiom hereafter lca reviewer notes many mahajan arguments necessarily presuppose certain possibly dubious tacit assumptions e g rm must necessarily involve adjunction specifically ip contrary approach proposed e g muller wiltschko rochemont culicover papers instance string mahajan 33 marks could generated unacceptability accounted rightadjunction direct object vp rather ip nowhere mahajan actually address reviewer opinion basic issue questions like evidence gap corresponding postverbal material michael rochemont peter w culicover deriving dependent right adjuncts english pp 279300 discuss various constructions english might included rather broadlydefined concept extraposition distinguishing extraposition relative clauses one hand heavy np shift presentational insertion argue relative clause extraposition best treated 1 base generated 2 rightadjunction governing category vp ip cp antecedent extraposed rc make effort conjure plausible analyses rc extraposition involving kayne style leftwardmovement note none possibilities consider quite satisfactory even best option involving movement rc antecedent distinct spec positions fails provide motivation either posited movement highly ramified structure analysis requires expanding earlier work rochemont culicover 1990 rochemont culicover argue heavy np shift presentational insertion best treated instances movement right adjoined position demonstrate quite apart problems discussed rochemont culicover 1990 attempt analyze constructions means exclusively leftward movement involves extremely unattractive movement fact stretch imagination recognizable constituent end acknowledge empirical problems shared rightwardmovement account apparently prefer movement high specifier account would consistent kayne type approach latter raises provoking theoretical problems absent rightwardmovement account conclude saying question whether rightward movement exists empirical one daniel buring katharina hartmann paper kayne mutiny pp 5980 presents excellent argument empirical bankruptcy kayne antisymmetry hypothesis making crucial use reconstruction lf binding theoretic statements referring undeleted traces bh argument built upon prediction extraposition consequence rm ought possible proper binding relation exist np cp later sentence np happens hierarchically lower position neither daughters able ccommand cp lack binding relation priori impossible kayne analysis according np left cp must ipso facto ccommand demonstrate binding failures fact attested indeed difficult come language like german end section 2 acknowledge confusing results regard coreference options concluding require investigation demonstrate section 3 kayne analysis actually serious violence many standard assumptions movement including similarly rochemont culicover issues qualifies movable constituent circumstances constituent may stranded surreptitiously iconoclastic character kayne hypothesis get clever title demonstrate verb topicalization ought impossible kayne analysis although course quite common german order account complications regard island constraint violations etc presented problems earlier versions rm analysis extraposition german similar languages bh propose p 72 generalization according finite clauses may never governed either v provides actual motivation cp extraposition since presumably ds position complement clause governed matrix verb order escape government must rightadjoined higher phrasal node presumably ip direct conflict bayer analysis according extraposed cp ends governed matrix verb result deletion trace treepruning analysis preferred ought empirical problem hubert haider paper extraposition 115152 argues basis extraposition comparatives ccommand relations essential thereto english german mostly german extraposed constituents remain embedded ds mothers haider argues extraposed relative argument clauses must also vp internal since although nt subject ccommand relations always come extraposed comparatives broadening scope section 2 examples german extraposition haider demonstrates cant result movement must therefore basegenerated basis scope ccommand absence islandeffects also argues analysis terms basegenerated adjunction haider agrees kayne assuming exclusive leftward movement however allows either headinitial headfinal base structures invokes head movement kayne invokes phrasal movement haider presents several predictions kayne lca theory would language german demonstrates falsified actual data 1 phrases left verb spec positions therefore islands 2 vp adverbials predicates end postverbal position since nothing trigger movement 3 vp topicalization ought involve movement functional projection containing trace finite verb extraposition remnant movement p 215246 gereon muller offers neat analysis extraposition german right adjunction variety phrasal nodes including cp well vp ip thereby accounting various otherwise problematic details regard island effects leftward rightwardmoved constituents paper includes interesting useful comparative discussion adequacy variety different proposed constraints excluding unacceptable strings allowing acceptable ones martina wiltschko paper extraposition identification precedence pp 358396 summary 1995 wien dissertation discusses extraposition german focussing relation identification identifyee pro nominal element np dp canonical position within clause identifier extraposed constituent identifyee identifier provide linguistically necessary information identifyee occupies canonical theta position therefore satisfying syntactic requirements identifier provides necessary semantic content licence identifyee definiteness given identifyee introduces discourse referent must basis heim 1980 novelty condition precede identifier wiltschko also argues locality constraint identification according identifier must ccommand identifyee without intervening xp thus identifier must rightadjoined minimal maximal projection dominating identifyee wiltschko view two constraints together account fact identifiers always extraposed acknowledges analysis apply restrictive relative clauses types modifiers attractive paper many ways suffers somewhat necessary exclusion many supporting arguments interested reader referred fulllength dissertation two papers concerned primarily parsing theory development adequate parsing technology papers coming different points view argue datadriven bottomup parsing strategy hypothesisdriven topdown strategy movement one pass backtrack parsing pp 301330 chris sijtsma recognizes natural e singlepass backtracking faithful derivation bottomup parsers less restrictive natural topdown parsers course point view strict generative theory point assumes enough variation among actual languages bottomup parsing strategy preferred reviewer finds conclusion attractive worries sijtsma provided little way empirical demonstration back indeed mathematicallyoriented paper least relative reviewer experience extremely little way solid argument presented time sijtsma merely asserts proof given theorem either selfevident readily derivable cases refers demonstrations elsewhere literature another issue papers consider seriously without however either coming satisfactory solution proper size look ahead window adequate parser sijtsma asserts pp 305 6 grammar lookahead window greater 1 functionally equivalent grammar looks ahead one symbol goes say practice still need parsers look ahead one symbol subsequent discussion becomes clear unclear large look ahead window empirically adequate likewise alphonce davis currently working lookahead window two chunks p 25 clearly dissatisfied characterization clear issue needs thought research devoted fundamental claim paper carl alphonce henry davis motivating non directional movement pp 736 linear precedence constraints indeed lp phenomena kind relevance syntax essentially claim point view syntactic levels including lf constituents organized hierarchically terms dominance relations linearly terms precedence relations alphonce davis view precedence relations imposed pf making essentially matters performance rather competence opinion reviewer interesting possibly attractive idea unfortunately contrary promise contained abstract claim much argued assumed within paper made clear reviewer anyway explicitly argued anywhere else unlike skipped arguments behind wiltschko paper citations given sijtsma paper alphonce davis merely demonstrate possible develop analytic approach precisely parsing program need kind explicit syntactic constraints level whether ug languageparticular making reference linear order end abstract alphonce davis claim motivated conviction priori desirable eliminate much redundancy possible different components system phenomena sic independent processing explanation hold syntactic theory offer explanation approach well purely formal mathematical system fairly common knowledge redundancy fact sine qua non biological systems cf e g gould 1993 naturallinguistic systems well cf e g hock 1986 ch 9 12 fact also acknowledged chris sijtsma paper p 314 mere fact one develop parsing program need appeal syntactic lp constraints therefore way demonstrates constraints place human naturallanguage competence much sijtsma paper devoted developing points regarding e g proper type subcategorization frame pps clearly relevant primary concern developing adequate automated parsing grammar tangential focus collection arguing contrary kayne ug stipulate one universal treestructure languages sijtsma gets fair amount mileage replacing assumption nodelabels atomic assumption merely shorthand featurebundles though nt mention replacement actually implicit x bar theory ever since early 70 regard directionality movement sijtsma argues rightward movement must allowed ug caveat deriving ss ds leftward movement unrestricted rightward movement modifiers nt leave obvious gaps exceed lookahead buffer hand deriving lf ss rightward movement unrestricted leftward editor note review continued next issue linguist steven schaufele ph asst prof linguistics english department soochow university waishuanghsi campus taipei 11102 taiwan roc 886 02 28819471 ext 6504 fcosw5 mbm1 scu edu tw http www prairienet org fcosws homepage html 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