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<html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="microsoft dhtml editing control"> <title></title> </head> <body> <p>The concept of 'trigger' is a core concept of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. The idea that certain types of movement are triggered by some property of the target position is at least as old as the notion that the movement of noun phrases to the subject position is triggered by their need to receive nominative case. In more recent versions of syntactic theory, triggering mechanisms are thought to regulate all of movement. Furthermore, a quite narrow range of triggering mechanisms is permitted. As is to be expected, such a restrictive approach meets a variety of difficulties. Specifically, the question is whether all triggering elements required to cover displacement of all kinds in natural language can be independently motivated. Further, how can a trigger theory, which crucially relies on the idea that all movement is obligatory, deal with apparently optional movement processes? Are features an adequate means to express the triggering function in all cases? More radically, are all movement phenomena really the result of the checking of trigger features? And what about ap

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Author
Breitbarth, Anne (editor);Riemsdijk, Henk van (editor)
Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.; De Gruyter Mouton
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9786613396495
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction

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