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By Fabian Heck

Pied-piping, the phenomenon that wh-movement may perhaps aim different types now not marked with the function [wh], has typically been thought of idiosyncratic and pathological. On Pied-Piping argues that this evaluate isn't right. The booklet provides a compilation of crosslinguistic generalizations on pied-piping and a thought that derives them. Pied-piping is integrated right into a derivational conception of successive cyclic wh-movement that incorporates input-output optimization, the operation Agree, and section idea. The ensuing conception is a step in the direction of last a long-standing hole in syntactic theorizing.

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