A MINIMALIST ANALYSIS OF COORDINATION

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  • DECONSTRUCTING THE COORDINATE STRUCTURE CONSTRAINT

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Assuming that as Merge theory predicts, coordination has an asymmetric structure of the form “[&P & [&' XP [&', & YP]]],” we provide a minimalist ac-count of the Coordinate Structure Constraint (CSC) on A- and A'-movement, namely a “Minimal Search” analysis of A-movement and a phase-based account of A'-movement, deconstructing the CSC. Agree involved in A-movement applies to the entire coordinate structure alone by Minimal Search, hence there is no violation of the CSC in A-movement. A'-movement, not hinging on Agree, generally observes the CSC, but shows exceptional ex-traction out of a conjunct, which is predicted by the availability of External Merge of &, provided that &P forms a phase. Finally, we show that Agree means full agreement with respect to φ-features and conjuncts.

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  • ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

    ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 25 (2), 402-438, 2008

    The English Linguistic Society of Japan

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  • CRID
    1390001205326862080
  • NII Article ID
    130003650992
  • DOI
    10.9793/elsj1984.25.402
  • ISSN
    18843107
    09183701
  • Text Lang
    en
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    • JaLC
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    • OpenAIRE
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