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On Verb Fronting, Inflection Movement, and Aux Support

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Edwin Battistella  and
Anne Lobeck
Edwin Battistella
Affiliation:
University of Alabama/Birmingham
Anne Lobeck
Affiliation:
Western Washington University
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Recent analyses of word order and clause structure suggest that natural language syntax employs competing processes of Verb Fronting (VF) and Inflection Movement (IM) for the realization of Tense and Agreement (TNS and AGR) features on verb stems. As the names suggest, Verb Fronting is a process that raises a verb from the head of VP to INFL and INFL Movement is a rule that lowers the contents of INFL to the head of VP. Both rules are assumed to involve Chomsky-adjunction of the moved node to the target node and both are assumed to leave a trace.

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , September 1991 , pp. 255 - 267
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1991

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