Scrambling and Barriers

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today #5

by Günther Grewendorf (Editor), Wolfgang Sternefeld (Editor)

The articles in this volume deal with various phenomena which have been covered traditionally by the term scrambling. The analyses presented here refer to the most recent developments in generative grammar (the so-called Barriers-framework developed in Chomsky 1986). Some of the topics discussed are: the movement vs the base structure approach to scrambling, the correlation between the possibility of scrambling and certain infinitive structures, scrambling and ergativity, barriers and domains for scrambling.

448 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1990