scholarly journals Quantifier Float, Focus, and Scope in Thai

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Peter Jenks
Keyword(s):  
Rightward Movement ◽  
Quantifier Float

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:Quantifier Raising (QR) has been independently claimed to possess similar proper-ties as Q(uantifier)-float. I argue elsewhere that Q-float and QR share these properties in Thai because Q-float is overt QR in Thai (Jenks 2011). Here I argue that Q-float is driven by focus on the floated quantifier, following Simpson (2011). This is unsurprising, as other rightward movement phenomena such as heavy-NP shift and subject inversion are associated with focus on the rightward element.

scholarly journals The Color Line Reconsidered

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-313
Author(s):  
Michael C. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Incorporation ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Configuration ◽  
American Society ◽  
Rightward Movement ◽  
Moynihan Report ◽  
First Time

It is fitting that in the same issue that we present a previously unpublished article by W. E. B. Du Bois and host a symposium reviewing new major works on his political philosophy, we also present major essays debating the contours of the color line in the twenty-first century. Immigration and a strong rightward movement in American society are rapidly remaking the demographic and political configuration of the color line in the United States. Several essays in this issue debate critical aspects of this reconfiguration such as the relative importance of cultural versus structural causes of continued racial disparities; the role, if any, that racialization plays in shaping the modern immigrant incorporation into U.S. society; and, the legacy of the Moynihan report. Complementing these essays is a symposium on two major new books that provide fresh takes on the philosophical and theoretical relevance of Du Bois's thought for our times. We are also proud, for the first time anywhere, to publish Du Bois's essay, “The Social Significance of Booker T. Washington,” with an accompanying analytical introduction by Robert Brown.

On the Structure of the French DP

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Valois
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Functional Structure ◽  
The Status ◽  
French And English ◽  
Rightward Movement ◽  
Peculiar Case

AbstractThis paper discusses and expands upon various ideas concerning the structure of nominals in general (DPs) and of French nominals in particular, with the underlying idea that CP and DP have parallel argumental and functional structure. The main topics discussed are: (i) the projection of arguments in French and English; (ii) the parameterization of N-movement, which accounts for some word order differences between French and English; (iii) the distribution of adjectives in event nominals, which reflects that of adverbs in clauses in both French and English; (iv) a peculiar case of rightward movement out of DP that provides further evidence for N-movement as well as for the claim concerning the prohibition on right adjunction of genitive nominals within DP; and (v) extraction facts that are a consequence of the status of [Spec, DP] as an A′-position in French.

Quantifier Float and Telicity

2020 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Gwangrak Son ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quantifier Float

Quantifier Float and Wh-Movement in an Irish English

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McCloskey
Keyword(s):  
Object Shift ◽  
Wh Questions ◽  
The Right ◽  
Quantifier Float

The English of northwestern Ireland allows quantifier float of a previously undocumented kind in wh-questions. The quantifier all, though construed with a fronted wh-pronoun, may appear in a position considerably to the right of that pronoun. It is argued that all so stranded marks a position through which a wh-phrase has passed or in which a wh-phrase originates. The construction then provides visible evidence for intermediate derivational stages. This evidence is used to develop a new argument for successive cyclicity and to argue for overt object shift in English and for an origin site for subjects strictly within VP and below the object shift position.

Rightward Scrambling as Rightward Remnant Movement

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajesh Bhatt ◽  
Veneeta Dayal
Keyword(s):  
Linear Order ◽  
Movement Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Remnant Movement ◽  
Rightward Movement

Mahajan (1997) and Simpson and Bhattacharya (2003) analyze Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi-Urdu and Bangla as SVO. We argue against this position, drawing on rightward scrambling in Hindi-Urdu to make this point. We propose an account of the phenomenon in terms of rightward remnant-VP movement. This account differs from proposals that posit rightward movement of individual arguments as well as from the antisymmetric proposals mentioned above, which treat rightward scrambling as argument stranding. Our rightward remnant movement analysis better captures two empirical properties of rightward scrambling that remain elusive in the other accounts: the correlation between linear order and scope, and restricted scope for rightward- scrambled wh-expressions.

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