The seminar will begin with a foundational overview of A-bar movement in general. We will then switch gears and focus on cases in which there seems to be more A-bar movement than one might naively expect—either because more structure than expected gets moved, or because more movement operations than expected take place, or because both of these things happen at once.
Key topics will include: the idea that long-distance movement proceeds successive-cyclically through a series of intermediate landing sites; the ability of certain wh-items (which Ross referred to as pied-pipers) to lure other words to join them in moving; the mechanics of so-called internal or secondary movement, whereby the pied-piper moves to the edge of the pied-pipee before pied-piping it; the properties of parasitic gaps—unexpected gaps that can only occur in a sentence if licensed by the presence of a "regular" movement gap.
- Kursleiter*in: Dr. Stanislao Zompí