Comments on Object Shift and Cyclic Linearization
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Peter Sells
Abstract
In this short review I address certain issues and predictions that arise from the position papers by Erteschik-Shir, and by Fox and Pesetsky. The two proposed analyses are radically different, so I have made no attempt to relate them in terms of their properties. In section 1 I discuss some underlying issues in the architecture of grammar assumed by Erteschik-Shir, and in section 2 I evaluate some of the predictions generated by Fox and Pesetsky’s approach. In section 3 I draw some more general conclusions about what consequences Object Shift shows us concerning the organization of grammar, and the nature of grammatical principles. While my remarks mainly address problems or drawbacks that I see with the proposals in the two position papers, they both offer a stimulating account of OS and explore the wider implications of the natures of their enterprises, and deserve fuller consideration beyond the present venue, consideration that they will surely receive.
© Walter de Gruyter
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Cyclic Linearization of Syntactic Structure
- Sound Patterns of Syntax: Object Shift
- Holmberg’s Generalization and Cyclic Linearization. Remarks on Fox and Pesetsky
- Re: CycLin and the role of PF in Object Shift
- Some Remarks on Fox and Pesetsky: ‘‘Cyclic Linearization of Syntactic Structure’’
- Comments on Erteschik-Shir’s article
- Linearization in two ways
- Remarks on cyclic linearization and order preservation
- Some notes on cyclic linearization
- Comments on Object Shift and Cyclic Linearization
- Object Shift and linearization at the PF interface
- How Phonological is Object Shift?
- A Note on ‘‘Cyclic Linearization’’
- Cyclic Linearization and its interaction with other aspects of grammar: a reply
- What is Syntax?
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Cyclic Linearization of Syntactic Structure
- Sound Patterns of Syntax: Object Shift
- Holmberg’s Generalization and Cyclic Linearization. Remarks on Fox and Pesetsky
- Re: CycLin and the role of PF in Object Shift
- Some Remarks on Fox and Pesetsky: ‘‘Cyclic Linearization of Syntactic Structure’’
- Comments on Erteschik-Shir’s article
- Linearization in two ways
- Remarks on cyclic linearization and order preservation
- Some notes on cyclic linearization
- Comments on Object Shift and Cyclic Linearization
- Object Shift and linearization at the PF interface
- How Phonological is Object Shift?
- A Note on ‘‘Cyclic Linearization’’
- Cyclic Linearization and its interaction with other aspects of grammar: a reply
- What is Syntax?
