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By Anne Breitbarth,Henk van Riemsdijk

The proposal of 'trigger' is a middle notion of Chomsky's Minimalist software. the concept that specific sorts of circulate are brought on by means of a few estate of the objective place is no less than as previous because the concept that the flow of noun words to the topic place is prompted by way of their have to obtain nominative case. in additional fresh types of syntactic concept, triggering mechanisms are concept to control all of flow. moreover, a really slender variety of triggering mechanisms is allowed. As is to be anticipated, the sort of restrictive procedure meets a number of problems. particularly, the query is whether or not all triggering components required to hide displacement of all types in normal language could be independently influenced. additional, how can a set off concept, which crucially is determined by the concept all circulation is compulsory, take care of it appears not obligatory circulation strategies? Are positive factors an enough capacity to precise the triggering functionality in all situations? extra significantly, are all flow phenomena particularly the results of the checking of set off positive aspects? And what approximately obvious triggering elements which are 'external' to syntax similar to prosody - can they be captured in a inflexible set off conception? In different phrases, may perhaps convinced points of brought on circulate be as a result of interface stipulations? Such is the variety of questions addressed via the fourteen contributions to this e-book. They conceal a substantial variety of languages (including Afrikaans, Breton, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Gungbe, Hungarian, Italian, jap, Kiswahili, Romanian). those papers current fabrics, either empirical and theoretical, that may not fail to have enormous impression at the additional improvement of the idea that of set off in syntactic theory.

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