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Movement to C in German

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Robert G. Hoeing
Robert G. Hoeing
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State University of New York at BuffaloBuffalo, New York 14260
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Abstract

Standard movement theory stipulates that any X"-phrase that is moved must move to the specifier position (SPEC) of C". In this paper, however, it is argued on the basis of coordination phenomena, verb-final structure, and diachronic evidence that, in relative clauses and indirect questions, the moved pronoun or w-element functions more as a true complementizer than as a fronted X"-phrase and thus should move to the head position C. Movement to C is thus determined not by the phrase-structure level of the moved category, but by feature compatibility.

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 29 - 46
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Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 1993

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