TY  - CONF
A1  - Sauerland, Uli
A2  - Megerdoomian, Karine
A2  - Bar-el, Leora
T1  - A contrast to a trace
T2  - Proceedings of the 20th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
N2  - For movement, such as quantifier raising, the three different structures illustrated in (1) are discussed in the recent literature.
(1) A girl danced with every boy
a. [every boy]x a girl danced with x (copy + replace)
b. [every boy]x a girl danced with [every boy] (copy)
c. [every boy]x a girl danced with [thex boy] (copy + modify)
In this paper, I'll call the proposal illustrated by (1a) the copy+replace theory since the movement is analyzed as first copying the moving phrase followed by replacing the moving phrase with a trace in the base position of movement. Chomsky (1993) and Fox (1999) argue against the copy+replace theory (1a) on the basis of Condition C data that show that moved material can behave as if it occupied the base position of movement. This behavior would, for example, be expected on the copy theory of movement illustrated by (1b), which also seems conceptually simpler than the copy+replace theory since it involves only copying without replacement. This conceptual advantage, however, is probably only apparent since a theory of the interpretation of structures like (1b) would probably be more complicated than for (1a). Standard assumptions about interpretation, at least, don't predict the right meaning when applied to (1b). For this reason, Chomsky and Fox propose what I'll call the copy+modify-theory illustrated in (1c). This proposes that copying is followed by a trace modification operation that replaces the determiner of the moved DP with something else. I assume that this is an indexed definite determiner, the interpretation of which is to be clarified below.
KW  - Generative Transformationsgrammatik
KW  - Spurtheorie
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Tiefenstruktur
KW  - Oberflächenstruktur <Linguistik>
KW  - Englisch
Y1  - 2001
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38593
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-385930
UR  - https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bz8d8ZE7fhuTNUNmY1BKNW9udGM
SN  - 1-57473-043-6
SN  - 1-57473-143-2
VL  - 20
SP  - 498
EP  - 509
PB  - Cascadilla Press
CY  - Somerville
ER  -