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Volume 67: Issue 2
On some problems of rule ordering in Finnish grammar
Author:
Pauli Brattico Research Center for Neurocognition, Epistemology and Theoretical Syntax (NETS) School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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193–218
Online Publication Date:
Jun 2020
Publication Date:
01 Jun 2020
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/2062.2020.00013
Keywords:
wh-movement; phase theory; phase impenetrability; PIC; long-distance case assignment; Finnish
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Abstract

Finnish wh-movement exhibits internal roll-up movement with pied-piping and is therefore overtly successive-cyclic. On the other hand, its morphosyntax is nonlocal, suggesting countercyclic behavior. The existence of overtly cyclic computations and nonlocal agreement penetrating nearly every cyclic domain constitutes a near contradiction in this language. A solution is proposed which partially resurrects the notion of d-structure: grammatical operations are cyclic and operate in small phases (as indicated by Finnish successive cyclic wh-movement), but some operations, Agree in particular, access leftover copies of elements in situ and are not restricted by the phase impenetrability condition (PIC). PIC restricts operator/A-bar movement, not morphosyntax.

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