Head Movement and Pied-Piping
Head Movement and Pied-Piping
According to Noam Chomsky, Move is the combination of Agree, Merge, and Pied-pipe. It decomposes into three more primitive operations, whereas Merge takes two syntactic objects—α and β—and forms a new object, and is therefore the basic combinatorial operation of narrow syntax. Agree holds between α and β having interpretable and uninterpretable inflectional features, respectively. This chapter examines three possible ways of eliminating head movement from narrow syntax: structure preservation, chain uniformity, and the A-over-A Condition. It shows that the A-over-A Condition, but not structure preservation and chain uniformity, offers a viable way of forcing pied-piping of the maximal projection of the goal.
Keywords: Noam Chomsky, Move, Agree, Merge, narrow syntax, head movement, structure preservation, chain uniformity, A-over-A Condition, pied-piping
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