Tokens vs. Copies: Displacement Revisited

• Autores: Diego Gabriel Krivochen
• Localización: Studia linguistica: A journal of general linguistics, ISSN 0039-3193, Vol. 70, Nº 3, 2016, págs. 250-296
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this paper we will analyze the conceptual and computational motivations of the property of displacement in natural languages from a revisited perspective. We will account for displacement phenomena proposing our own version of displacement-as-external token Merge, as opposed to the traditional displacement-as-literal movement or, more recently, displacement-as-copy and Merge (Chomsky 1995; Kitahara 1997; Nunes 2004). As far as empirical data is concerned, we will provide a brief analysis of parasitic gaps and their derivation, comparing our proposal with previous accounts making particular stress on the idea that operations are not feature-driven in a highly constrained syntactic component, but interface-driven, syntax being free and unbounded