Phases and Successive Cyclic Movement

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper explores how the operation of the interpretive complex (Int) is derived by phase heads (C, v, D), when the non-genitive possessor in the inalienable possession construction can undergo the peripheral movement (or A -movement). The peripheral movement is only to induce structural configuration for focus, topic, operator, etc., at the edge of a phase, rather than to maintain feature-matching for Agree (Chomsky 2004). The analysis put forward
in this paper is based on Chomsky s (2004) recent claim that the peripheral movement is a non-Agree-driven movement, or a free internal merge to the edge of a phase due to the edge feature of the phase head (cf. Yang 2005).
That is, edge effects are particularly motivated by an edge feature-driven movement.
PIC forces movement to proceed successive-cyclically phase by phase. Three such pieces of evidence come from observations about the peripheral movement of the non-genitive possessor, Int effect and anaphor binding.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Peripheral Movements and Phase Edge Features
• 3. Successive Cyclic Movement
• 4. Int Effect in the OS Position
• 5. Reflexive Anaphor Binding
• 6. Conclusion