On the Ungrammaticality of Remnant Movement in the Derivation of Greenberg's Universal 20
We propose an analysis that derives Cinque's (2005) typology of linear orders involving a demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun through four Optimality Theory constraints requiring leftward alignment of these items. We show that remnant movement is ungrammatical whenever it produces unive...
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MIT Press,
2011-11-07T20:47:14Z.
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