Sobre as construções com tough movement do inglês (On English tough-movement constructions)
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https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v8i2.1130Keywords:
English, Syntactic Movement, Tough Predicate, Generative SyntaxAbstract
In this work, I analyze English tough-movement constructions. Based on semantic and syntactic properties of these constructions and on the grammatical relationship between the infinitival complement and the tough predicate, I argue that sentences like John is easy to please and John is easy to convince Mary to visit have different syntactic derivations.
KEYWORDS: English. Syntactic Movement. Tough Predicate. Generative Syntax.
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AUTHIER, M.; REED, L. Tough-Movement and Nominalized Infinitives in French. Mid-America Linguistic Conference. The Pennsylvania State University, 2007.
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BAYER, S. Tough movement as function composition. In: The Proceedings of the Ninth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Stanford, CA: Stanford Linguistics Association, 1990. p. 29-42.
CHOMSKY, N. On wh-movement. In: CULICOVER, P. (ed.). Formal syntax. New York: Academic Press. p. 71-132, 1977.
CHOMSKY, N. Lectures on government and binding. Dordrecht: Foris, 1981.
CHOMSKY, N. Some concepts and consequences of the theory of government and binding. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982.
CHOMSKY, N. The Minimalist Program. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995. p. 81-155.
CHOMSKY, N. Minimalist inquiries: the framework. In: MARTIN, R; MICHAELS, D.; URIAGEREKA, J. (eds.). Step by step: essays on minimalist syntax in honor of Howard Lasnik. MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000.
HALLE, M.; MARANTZ, A. Distributed Morphology and the Pieces of Inflection. In: HALE, K; KEYSER, S. The View from Building 20. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993. p. 111-176.
HARLEY H. Syntactic event structure and nominalizations. QP-structure, Nominalizations, and the role of DP. University of Arizona, December 17, 2005.
HORNSTEIN, N. Move! a minimalist theory of construal. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
HICKS, G. “So Easy to Look at, So Hard to Define”: Tough Movement in the Minimalist Framework. M.A. thesis - University of York, 2003.
LASNIK, H. & URIAGEREKA, Juan. A Course in GB Syntax: Lectures on Binding and Empty Categories. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.
MARTIN, R. A minimalist theory of PRO and control. Doctoral dissertation. University of Connecticut, 1996.
NANNI, D. L. On the surface syntax of constructions with easy-type adjectives. Language, n. 56, p. 568-81, 1980.
NUNES, J. Sideward movement. Linguistic Inquiry, n. 32, p. 303-344, 2001.
NUNES, J. Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004.
ROBERTS, Ian. The Representation of Implicit and Dethematized Subjects. Linguistic Models Series. Dordrecht.: Foris, 1987.
ROBERTS, Ian. The copy theory of movement and linearization of chains in the Minimalist Program. Doctoral dissertation - University of Maryland, College Park, 1995.
WURMBRAND, S. Infinitives: restructuring and clause structure. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.
WURMBRAND, S. Syntactic vs. post-syntactic movement. In: Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association. CLA, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2003. p. 284-295.
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2010-12-30
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OLIVEIRA E OLIVEIRA, I. Sobre as construções com tough movement do inglês (On English tough-movement constructions). Language Studies, [S. l.], v. 8, n. 2, p. 105-131, 2010. DOI: 10.22481/el.v8i2.1130. Disponível em: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/estudosdalinguagem/article/view/1130. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.
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