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The MIT Linguistics Colloquium Series presents:

On Improper Movement

Klaus Abels
University of Tromsø

Friday, February 15, 2008
3:30 p.m., Room 32-141

In this talk I propose to take a fresh look at the phenomenon of improper movement. How does (im)propriety of movement interact with remnant movement? How -- with extraction from movement elements, i.e., with exceptions to the freezing principle? How -- with a more articulated typology of movement relations than GB's A/A'-distinction? On the basis of data largely from German and English, I reach the tentative conclusion that movement types must be ordered linearly.

If true, this gives rise to a more integrated and restrictive theory of movement than is currently available. I discuss one case, cross serial dependencies, where this restrictiveness is immediately apparent.