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Band 543:: Abels, Klaus: Phases. An essay on cyclicity in syntax. VIII/323 S. - Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 2012.
ISBN: 978-3-11-028405-8

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The minimalist notion of a phase has often been investigated with a view to the interfaces. ‘Phases’ provides a strictly syntax-internal perspective.
If phases are fundamental, they should provide the grounds for a unifying treatment of different syntactic phenomena. Concentrating on displacement, the book argues that this expectation is borne out: there is an empirical clustering of properties, whereby the phrases that undergo pied-piping are also the phrases that host intermediate traces of cyclic movement. The same phrases also host partial and secondary movement. Finally, the immediate complements within these phrases never strand the embedding heads. The phrases that show this behaviour are the phases (CP, vP, DP, and PP). To account for the cluster of properties, phases are claimed to have two special properties: their complement is inaccessible to operations outside, the Phase Impenetrability Condition; their heads may be endowed with unvalued features that are neither connected to the categorical status of the phase nor interpreted on it. It is shown how the cluster of empirical properties flows naturally from these two assumptions, supporting the idea that phases are indeed a fundamental construct in syntax.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of glosses used		S. 1

1.	Introduction	S. 3
2.	On successive-cyclic movement	S. 15
3.	Some properties of movement	S. 65
4.	The theory of cyclicity and phases	S. 89
5.	Feature Values and Interpretation	S. 141
6.	The phase heads v, C, P and the stranding generalization	S. 183
7.	On adposition stranding	S. 223
8.	Phases	S. 277
9.	Bibliography	S. 279
10.	Index	S. 311

List of glosses used			S. 1

1.	Introduction		S. 3
1.1.		Overview	S. 8
1.2.		Theoretical sketch	S. 10
2.	On successive-cyclic movement		S. 15
2.1.		Introduction	S. 15
2.2.		Are movement paths punctuated or uniform?	S. 19
2.3.		The edge of CP as a landing site of successive-cyclic movement	S. 49
2.4.		Reflection	S. 58
3.	Some properties of movement		S. 65
3.1.		Introduction	S. 65
3.2.		Partial movement	S. 66
3.3.		Pied-piping	S. 71
3.4.		Secondary movement	S. 76
3.5.		Reflection	S. 83
4.	The theory of cyclicity and phases		S. 89
4.1.		Configurations for feature-sharing	S. 91
4.2.		Movement and last resort	S. 105
4.3.		Phase impenetrability	S. 112
4.4.		Phase heads and their features	S. 121
5.	Feature Values and Interpretation		S. 141
5.1.		Feature interpretation	S. 141
5.2.		Towards a precise formulation	S. 143
5.3.		Possible systems based on a single feature: A dry run	S. 146
5.4.		The generalizations	S. 155
5.5.		Wh-movement in various languages	S. 167
5.6.		Summary	S. 182
6.	The phase heads v, C, P and the stranding generalization		S. 183
6.1.		VP immobility under v	S. 183
6.2.		TP immobility under C	S. 187
6.3.		DP immobility under P	S. 202
6.4.		Conclusion	S. 221
7.	On adposition stranding		S. 223
7.1.		Trace or null resumptive?	S. 223
7.2.		P-stranding in German and Dutch	S. 231
7.3.		P-stranding languages	S. 245
7.4.		Conclusion	S. 269
8.	Phases		S. 277
9.	Bibliography		S. 279
10.	Index		S. 311