Debrecen08

Remnant Movement and Phases

Roland Hinterholzl

The course focusses on the restrictions and implications of remnant movement. It will be argued that remnant movement follows from phase-based restrictions on subextraction. I will present and argue for a typology of phases and sub-phases building on the notion of extended projections by Grimshaw (1991). The empirical domain concerns the syntax of event-related adjuncts in Germanic and cross-linguistically. I will first discuss Pesetsky’s (1995) account in terms of layers and cascades and introduce an alternative in terms of vP-intraposition and (silent) scrambling. The analysis will be cast in a phase-based framework, in which the motivation for remnant movement and the restrictions on subextraction follow from a notion of locality defined in terms of homorganic projections (which are subphases projected by the same phase predicate).

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